Sarah Kanowski

And we were going to finally go and help.

And we were young, 24 years old.

We didn't have connections in this space.

We thought maybe we would be easy to find a job with our degrees, but we couldn't find those jobs from afar, from Australia.

So we thought, let's just get on a plane.

Kenya's a nice, easy way to start.

It's a relatively safe country.

And we'll go and volunteer at an orphanage just to find our feet.

So naive.

You know, we arrive in Kenya for a start and we think it's a nice, safe country and the country goes...

crazy the current president steals the election violence kicks off thousands of people are killed in the next few weeks and hundreds of thousands of refugees and we're right in the thick of that but occasionally we're going to the nearby town using a cyber cafe and we're sent we've sent a hundred emails out of here's our cv we're great you should hire us no one responds and

And, you know, we've got our Coldplay CD and our Walkman.

We've got our Make Poverty History bracelet on.

Like we are like, we are ready to save the world and no one wants to give us a job.

And then one group reaches out and they said, we run a high school for at-risk kids in Tanzania.

And Aaron, we love your leadership experience.

So I'm a 24-year-old military officer.

And Caitlin, we love your teaching experience.

Now, Caitlin's done three weeks as a practical placement at Surrey Hills Primary School.

But they said, come and run the school.