By Elisa Glangeaud

I am 38 years old and a mother of two children who are 2 and 5 years old. I am also from Grenoble in the French Alps. Since I was a child, I have always had a passion for the discovery of other cultures.
I have been studying foreign languages and international relations. During my studies, I took a “gap year” in South America. After that, I worked for a company that organized cultural travels but I was also a European Exchange student in Denmark.

I still love traveling and meeting people!!!

After my Master’s degree, I started working in Colombia on the evaluation of development projects for a French NGO and then I worked some months at The Center for Human Rights at the United Nations in Geneva. For six years, I was traveling between South America and France for development projects, mostly in indigenous communities in the Andes. I worked for two years for a Peruvian NGO in Cuzco, land of the former Incas, which was one of the best experiences of my life!

Before joining the Projects Abroad team, I worked for eight years in a press relations agency in Grenoble. I was in charge of different budgets but I was looking for a more useful mission in my work. I needed a wider opening on the world with true human values. That’s how I found Projects Abroad and I sincerely hope that I will be very useful to fulfill its mission. I have been working for only one week at Projects Abroad but I feel I am at the right place and I am already enjoying it a lot!!!