Setting out on a mission, doing voluntary work is not an easy task, being in a poor country surrounded by poverty leads to a culture shock makes it quite hard. You need to stomach seeing poor children and people, seeing the bad conditions they live in and the difficulties they encounter in life. Why would you want to do voluntary work? To help, to make a difference, one would normally reply. But the irony is that normally you go to teach and you end up learning more that you