GSN member Rosemary Burnett, talks her about her work as an international accompanier in Guatemala on Radio Scotland. She describes how she got involved, the plight of the witnesses to the genocide in Guatemala in the 1980s and everyday life volunteering in ACOGUATE, the Guatemala Accompaniment Programme. Rosemary has written about her experiences in a book Disentangling the Knots, you can get a copy from here.

Mark Stephen talks to people about personal journeys which have had a profound effect on their lives. This week Mark meets Rosemary Burnett, the Programme Director for Amnesty International in Scotland. In October 2003, Rosemary left Edinburgh, and her life there, to travel to Guatemala where she lived and worked for a year as an International Accompanier.

You can listen to Rosemary's interview on Radio Scotland here.  Unfortunately the BBC takes most of its programmes offline after seven days.