"This is a farm so the cacophony of noise since 5am has been ‘like a farmyard’ with howler monkeys sounding somewhere between a very loud arrogant cockerel to a kind of cow." Debbie O'Brien shares her thoughts after a recent Amos trip to Nicaragua.

“I shall remain eternally grateful that I boarded that plane and took a leap of faith — that I had the opportunity to work alongside such an inspirational group of people and experienced the immense privilege of being a small part of something that really matters.” Cambridge-based writer Sarah Baron traveled to the West Bank in April 2015 on an Amos Trust Home Rebuild trip. Here she tells us her story.