Charity seeks help from accountants
Accountants - 14/11/2006 16:02:17
Aid agency Goal UK is looking for volunteer accountants to travel to war torn countries or those who have fallen victim to natural disasters.
Already, the charitable organisation has signed up David Cassidy, who spent three years as a management accountant with Rolls Royce. The finance expert has just finished his first month as roving accountant with Goal in Sudan.
He told the Guardian: "This is my first job in the humanitarian sector and unlikely to be my last. It's very different to life in the UK, the weather, the attitude, the people.
"Most of the foreign nationals haven't had a formal education, which makes improving their ability in the profession difficult. What I enjoy most about my job is visiting Goal projects. Accounting is accounting, for me it's this environment that's exciting".
Goal UK was founded 30 years ago by former sports journalist John O'Shea and has received praise from the likes of Mary Robinson, the former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Kofi Annan, the secretary general of the UN, and the Foreign Office.
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