VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR FOR PROJECT in PERU
“Sharingdreams-Peru” is a nonprofit organization that helps improve the quality of life of poverty-stricken children in the central Andes region of Peru. It was founded in 2009 and has expanded over the past couple of years. More volunteers are deciding to work with our organization and help improve the lives of these children. Therefore, Sharingdreams-Peru is in need of four people to help coordinate all of the volunteers and continue to recruit more.
Responsibilities of the position:
-Contact, coordinate and manage new volunteers
-Help in the office and the volunteer house
-Recruit new volunteers through Internet advertisements
-Promote volunteer projects and the organization through Internet advertisements
-Provide advice and support to volunteers
-Direct and supervise the volunteer projects.
Working hours:
-Monday thru Friday
-9:00 AM to 12:30 PM, 3:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Number of job openings: 4
Desired skills and experience:
-21+ years old
-No previous experience necessary
-Spanish level: basic or intermediate
-A minimum commitment of 3 months (renewable every 3 months)
-Committed individuals who are willing to dedicate their time and work hard to support the mission of our organization.
-Individuals who are honest, enthusiastic, creative, logical, have a positive attitude,Respectful and considerate, and have the ability to adapt easily to new situations.
-Respect the rules and values of the organization
-No criminal record history.
Benefits of the position:
-A unique opportunity to gain professional experience in the non-profit sector
-Discount on accommodations
-Receive free training
-A fun and exciting cultural exchange Get the chance to experience and learn more about Peruvian culture by living in a beautiful region of Peru.
-The opportunity to be apart of our organization and be the executive director of a volunteer project.
More / LessHow to apply
Application:
THROUGH-contact our web site or by telephone.
Steps:
-Interview by phone or Skype.
-Sending CV and 2 references. (May include employers or professors)
for more information please visit:
http:/www.volunteersharingdreamsperu.org/
or contact to:
Frank Cotera – Coordinator of Sharing dreams-Peru
phone: (+51) 64 964 685017
email. : Sharingdreamsperu@yahoo.com
Benefits of Long term volunteering
In recent years there has been an increase in the popularity of volunteering abroad. Young people in particular have increasingly looked to spend their summer holidays, or part of it, volunteering on a challenging and rewarding overseas placement.
While the benefits of volunteering can be invaluable, certain side effects of short term volunteering have emerged. Many companies have started to create volunteer programs of just a few weeks, tailored to “fit in” with young person’s schedules, rather than aiming to provide benefit to the local communities and a valuable experience to the volunteer.
There are a few important things to keep in mind and evaluate before choosing to volunteer abroad. Firstly volunteering abroad should not primarily be about enhancing your CV and snapping a few memorable pictures to show your friends back home. The aim should be to achieve a life changing experience for both volunteer and the local communities. Whilst you will gain the additional benefits of new skills and an opportunity to immerse yourself in the local culture, your actions will have a real impact and effect on the host community and it is important that this impact is wholly positive.
This is often something that is taken for granted by many volunteers. For example would be volunteers, should check that the organisation work with their host communities to ensure the local work force are not just being displaced by the volunteers. In this sense, short term volunteers can potentially be detrimental to local people and the local economy.
Therefore, before you choose a volunteer placement, your first aim should be to make sure that the project brings real benefits to the community. A volunteer placement of few weeks will not dramatically improve your skills and it will be more likely to affect the local community in an adverse way. It is also questionable whether you will have the time to truly get accustomed to the local culture or to gain skills such as learning a new language. A few weeks are unlikely to be enough time to implement a well thought out project, let alone enough time to see any of the benefits. You may find your experience disappointing, apart from a few pictures to display your friends with a bunch of faces rather than the names, stories and personalities of individuals.
Making a real impact on the community will require you first getting to know them. Only by becoming part of that community you will be able to make a real impact. While many choose attractive destinations for their volunteer placement more attention should be placed on the kind of the benefits you can provide.
It is understandable that many young people, who are deciding about their gap year, pick attractive destinations where they can travel and enjoy their time abroad. However, they should understand the benefits that fulfilling a long term placement may bring them.
When volunteers live somewhere for a long period of time, they become a real part of the community. They can meet the people, who will become their friends for life as well as people, who can be important for their future careers. The longer the volunteers decide to stay at one place, the better the local people can really get to know them.
Learning a foreign language is another important asset of spending a longer time abroad. Those who spend their gap year overseas, get a real opportunity to learn another language. The longer they live in the community, and interact with the local population, the more immersed they become in the language and so the local culture.
Spending your gap year volunteering is ultimately about helping people, meeting people, learning about people and another culture. Not about seeing as much as you can in a short period of time or filling a gap in your summer holidays. It is about the experience and the outcome, more than the destination.
Therefore, volunteers should bear in mind that when they decide to spend their gap year abroad it is not only about choosing the right destination and the type of work that they would like to do. It is about a life changing experience and what will be best for those the look to help.
By Roberta Geraci.
Roberta works for international youth development charity, Lattitude Global Volunteering (www.lattitude.org.uk), an organisation specialising in gap year and overseas volunteering opportunities. Started in 1972, Lattitude has 40 years experience and to date has sent over 40,000 volunteers worldwide.
India’s baby tossing ritual
Anyone know anything about this? Apparently, it is a ritual that is thought to make babies stronger. It is held in south India and babies are between 2 months and 2 years old. That is all I know.
Weaver Bird: Community For The Arts
Posted by: Kelly Fischer
Weaver Bird: Community For The Arts is an organization that is using art to empower and sustain the Ndegeya community, located just 6 Km outside of Masaka, Uganda. Our mission is to use art to change lives. We are accomplishing this by implementing various programs and workshops in Ndegeya, such as Weaver Bird Handicrafts, COCHICO children’s library, and Ndegeya Youth Cultural Troupe to mention a few. Through these programs community members have access to resources and education that they would not have otherwise; therefore, enabling their potential success to sustain themselves in the future.
COCHICO is a resource center for the local children of the Ndegeya community. Over 1000 children’s books have been donated from the USA to supply the library and promote education in the community. COCHICO children’s library intends to implement and foster literacy skills and development in Ndegeya. COCHICO library facilitates three Literacy programs that cater to the people of the Ndegeya community. These three programs are: the After School Literacy program, Trainer to Trainers program, and our Community Links project.
The objective of COCHICO library is to develop literate individuals who have the capacity to be successful, competent, independent, lifelong learners. Through our three programs we hope to promote Literacy thoughout the Ndegeya community.
Community mobilizer/ project planning – Kenya
Posted by: Millan Ochieng Otieno
ACBOHI volunteer programme in Kenya has available opportunities for international volunteers within our OVC support centers, schools, hospitals and community medical clinics.We work directly with the community where we assign you to area and fields that are relevant to you hoping you will make a significant difference to the society at large.You will be supported throughout the duration of your placement, with prior arrangement of accommodation.You will be working closely with your suppervisor/ guide within our relevant programmesWe will endeavor to use our potential to meet your requirements. Our placements that volunteers have asked for in the past include volunteering in mobile clinics, community mobilisation, lecturing in our college, resource mobilization department, poverty eradication, micro finance department,reproductive health, food security, skills lab, HIV/Aids, nutrition among the community.Volunteer opportunities now available in the following departments:
Finance and resource mobilization dept
Youth and children empowerment
Food security and environmental conservation
HIV/AIDS and social support
Finance and resource morbilization department
Finance and resource mobilization dept
If you wish to volunteer/those interested in attachments can also make inquiry below by contacting us through link provided.
www.acbohi.kbo.co.ke
sustainable development and healthy livelihood
acoyhi2010@gmail.com or awachsarecbo2010@yahoo.com
www.awachsare.net78.net
More / LessHow to apply
make application via Email; to the programme coordinator, millanochiengotieno@yahoo.com or acoyhi2010@gmail.com.you can also send your request to our website acbohi.kbo.co.ke/volunteers. or send a mail to:
Contact us on:
Awach-Sare Community-Based Organization for Health Initiative (ACBOHI)
P.O. Box 189-40301
Kendu-Bay
KENYA
Mob. No: +254-726-879354 or +254-726-098555
Email: acoyhi2010@gmail.com
Volunteer work with communities in the Andes of Peru – Sharing Dreams
Posted By: Frank Cotera
Based in the central Andes of Peru,”Sharing dreams-Peru”.
nonprofit organization, legally recognized by the Peruvian laws.
Our mision is to create a community of volunteers with the objective of providing support to and enhancing the quality of life of the poorest people in Peru. They place special emphasis on childhood development and on free and direct work between the volunteers and the community,with a philosophy of work and participation open source.
We wish to create a free and effective community of volunteers whose work will have a tangible and direct effect on the lives of people in Huancayo and in Peru and also, encourage cultural exchanges with people around the world, giving volunteers the opportunity to experience the rich Andean culture and know the tourist attractions and the beautiful landscapes of Peru, freely, directly and in fun way.
*Commitment:
A minimal volunteer work is 2 weeks, although longer periods are ideal
*Skills:
no previous experience necessary, English, Basic Spanish (optional).
*Type:
Teaching English, tutoring, organized sports and hiking, reforestation, recycling, office work, project coordination, preventive health,creation of organic gardens,feeding and malnutrition, education.
ACCOMMODATION:
we are an organization of open source, you do not need to pay for volunteering, or by any concept, however; you can choose your own accommodation, or optionally, if you desire, we can get an accommodation(including meals) for you (home or hosting volunteers) comfortable and safe but you must pay for that service (100 US Dollars per week the first month, and 75 US dollars per wek the following Months), because we do not have enough resources for you to stay for free.Thanks for your understanding.
Volunteers have the weekends off to explore the tourist attractions around the Mantaro Valley, and also to the wonderful and exotic Peruvian jungle, and other beautiful places of Peru.
For more information visit:
http://www.volunteersharingdreamsperu.org/
Volunteer in Nepal for £10 a day
Posted by: Wayne Guttridge
Have you been planning to volunteer abroad this year but have been put off by the high cost of doing so? In many parts of the world this has become a big business which have reflected in such steep prices.
Why pay £1000`s to volunteer through a big international organization when you can go direct to the local NGO? This way all of the money goes to the country that needs it, very little is wasted in admin and you get the same experience at 25% of the price.
Volunteering in Nepal for just £10 per day which covers food and lodgings.
No deposit outside of Nepal.
All of the money being used in the country its needed in.
If interested in knowing more about working in orphanages, schools, daycare centres and farming projects contact through Gumtree.
Certificate of Social welfare Council Registration No 30727
District Administrative Office Kathmandu Registration No: 219
Volunteer in the Amazon – Chinimptuna
Posted by: Abbie Hutchison
A wonderful place to visit in the Amazon! I spent 6 months there and loved every minute of it…you will too www.chinimptuna.com
Volunteer in the townships of South Africa
Posted By: Martijn van der Put
Izizwe Projects is a registered non-profit working for and with the local community of Walmer Township, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
With the help of local and international volunteers Izizwe supports a high school, primary schools, creches, a community center, the local dance group and much more.
Volunteers of all backgrounds and ages are welcome to support us in any way!
Sea Turtle Conservation in Costa Rica – Volunteer Coordinator
Posted By: Widecast Costa Rica
We, WIDECAST Costa Rica, are looking for new volunteers or research assistants for our sea turtles conservation projects on the Pacific (In-water studies and daily surveys) and the Caribbean (beach projects) coastline in season 2012. We are especially looking for volunteers working in our Osa In-water project, because we have a lot of work at hand treating sick sea turtles and the mangrove reforestation.
Projects:
Pacific coast
Peninsula de Osa – In-water studies:
This project is located a little bit in the north of Puerto Jimenez on Playa Blanca. This project combines boat trips to conduct In-water studies, a rescue center for sea turtles, a mangrove reforestation project and a support of the local blue flag group. This generates a lot of different duties: beach cleaning, reforestation work, helping in the rescue center and, twice a week, there will be boat trips to conduct research on the in-water sea turtle population. Project staff and volunteers go with our boat to our capture site and use a net to catch sea turtles, mostly Green Sea Turtles. If we catch one, we take them into the boat and take various samples:
- Blood samples to analyze the physical condition of the sea turtle and to look for differences in the females between nesting and feeding period.
- Tissue samples to examine the mitochondrial DNA to reconstruct the lineage of the females.
- Mucus samples from the eyes, the nose and the cloaca to scan for microscopic parasites.
We also collect data recording the size of the carapace and tag them with metal tags in case the sea turtle doesn’t have any tag, before we release them again. But dealing with the sea turtles might seem rough an unpleasant for them, so please be sure that you can handle it.
Playa Sombrero / Platanares (without research assistants):
This project is located on the Peninsula de Osa, south pacific coast of Costa Rica. You would stay in Puerto Jimenez and do daily surveys on the two different beaches closest to Puerto Jimenez. The work focuses on patrols in the early morning until noon. The volunteers leave their accommodations at around 4:30. The distance to Sombrero is quite far which is why we use the taxi that goes to the southern entrance of national park Corcovado, La Leona, but we get off the taxi before. Playa Platanares is closer, it is about one hour to walk from the accommodations. In case, nests are found, we relocate them to a safer place. We do not work with a hatchery. So far, there were no encounters with poachers.
Caribbean:
Our projects on the Caribbean , namely Pacuare and Moin, will start in the middle of February with the beginning of the nesting season of the Leatherback Sea Turtle, lasting until July and the last nests hatching in August. In Pacuare, the season will continue with the nesting of the Green Sea Turtle until October and the last eggs hatching in November. Even though, there is no nesting in December and January, we will continue the work at our rescue center for sea turtles.
Project Pacuare:
This project is in the north of Limón (Capital of the Caribbean Province of Costa Rica), south of Parismina river. The main thread that we address is the poaching and hunting of nests and nesting females. Therefore the project combines night beach patrols, hatchery work and a rescue center for sea turtles. The duties of the volunteers are patrolling the beach at night, hatchery shifts and beach cleaning, maintenance work and helping at the rescue center like nursing sea turtles or cleaning tanks. The project is open year-round. February to
July: Leatherback Sea Turtles and June to November: Green and Hawksbill Sea Turtle. Even though there is no nesting in December and January, there are still a lot of tasks to fulfill. The night patrols encounter poacher frequently, but the project is running a strictly non-confrontational policy by which an escalation of encounters between night patrols and poachers could have been avoided over the last seven years by a hundred percent. The project side is rather remote: no electricity and you have to go there by boat (US$ 35 per person). Also the opportunity to attend Spanish classes can be arranged.
Project Moin:
The project is just a few kilometers in the north of Limón on the Caribbean coastline, therefore it is not as remote as Pacuare (electricity is available) but longer beach. The duties of the volunteers are night patrols, hatchery shifts, beach cleaning and occasional cleaning and maintenance work. But you would stay at a wildlife rescue center with a lot of terrestrial animals like sloths or spider monkeys and can help feeding these animals as well. Since the project is also on the Caribbean coast the dates of the seasons are similar to the project in Pacuare, but we do not encounter as many Hawksbill and Green Sea Turtles as we do in Pacuare. Since the project is quite young there is poaching activities.
