As a careers teacher in a secondary school, Jacqui Hodder tries to enlarge the world of possibilities for others. During lockdown, she was supervising a civic education class on Zoom, listening with her year nine students to a talk about the experience of volunteering with turtles. But it was Hodder herself who kept asking questions. “I was blown away,” she says.
The guest speaker showed a little video of her stay: the base camp, the tropical downpours, the remoteness all struck a chord with Hodder. “Straight away I knew that’s what I wanted to do,” she says.
