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Volunteer Sports Event Coordinator – Sri Lanka

December 6, 2012 by 2 Comments

The Foundation of Goodness is looking for a volunteer sports event coordinator.

Job Title:

Sports Event Coordinator

Job Description:

The Foundation of Goodness (FOG), a highly respected Sri Lankan charity that focuses on rural empowerment, is looking to recruit a talented full-time volunteer to act as an event coordinator for a cricket tournament called the Murali Harmony Cup (www.themuralicup.com). The tournament, which started in 2012 prior to the ICC World Twenty in Sri Lanka, is a special domestic cricket event designed to promote sports development, community building and reconciliation in Sri Lanka’s war-affected northern province. The inaugural tournament, initially planned as a one-off event, was held with the support of the International Cricket Council and was considered an enormous success. This success has prompted FOG to commit to making it an annual event with tournaments planned for 2014, 2015 and 2016.
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Volunteer Coordinators Needed in Sri Lanka 8+ Weeks Expenses Paid

October 22, 2012 by 2 Comments

Volunteer Coordinators Needed in Sri Lanka 8+ Weeks Expenses Paid

SLVolounteers offers projects including teaching English, working at special needs centres and children’s homes, and coaching sport.

All living expenses whilst in Sri Lanka are covered. Individuals must be able to commit to volunteering with the team for a minimum of 8 weeks.

SL Volunteers is a Volunteer Organisation in Sri Lanka, set up by a team of recent graduates. “We couldn’t find a volunteer organisation for students & graduates, that was ethical, provided training & was affordable. So we created our own.”
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Filed Under: Children, Medical, Sports, Sri Lanka, Teach English

Volunteer position Sri Lanka

April 23, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Organisation Name: Foundation of Goodness
Title: Sustainability (income generation) volunteer position
Duration: min. 3 months
Location: Colombo or Seenigama office, Sri Lanka
Overview of position: To oversee and drive forward the sustainability projects of the Foundation of Goodness
What: The Foundation of Goodness is a charity in Sri Lanka working to help rural disadvantaged villagers gain skills and find employment. The Foundation of Goodness has run successful programs for 15 years, however, in order to reduce reliance on unpredictable donor contributions and to ensure its good work can continue for the years ahead, the Foundation of Goodness’s is looking for ways to create stable sources of income.

The Foundation of Goodness is currently developing several projects to generate income and make the organisation sustainable. These initiatives include, but not limited to, the opening of a Foundation of Goodness shop(s) where products from the women’s enterprise centre and other areas can be sold; utilising the skills of students from the IT training department to develop IT Business Process Outsource (BPO); developing the Diving and Training Centre to cater to tourists; and developing Community Aid Tourism.
The Foundation of Goodness is looking for a volunteer (unpaid) to help oversee and drive these initiatives forward as well as scope other potential income generation options for the Foundation.
Responsibilities:
• Reports to the Founder/Trustee
• Coordinate, steer and task-manage the income generation initiatives
• Liaise with staff to scope new ideas to gain sustainable income
• Develop business plans in consultation with other staff for possible generation of sustainable income for the organisation
• Design a roadmap with deadlines
Skills:
• Business development skills
• Project management skills
• Understanding of marketing and communication strategies and methods
• Knowledge of financial aspects of an organisation including understanding of costs
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Driven and proactive approach to work
• Good persuasion and negotiating skills, with the ability to motivate others
How to apply:
If you are interested in this volunteer position, please send your CV and cover letter to email – Kushil@foguc.org, dilhani@foguc.org on or before 30th April 2012
For more information on the Foundation of Goodness see www.unconditionalcompassion.org and http://www.unconditionalcompassion.org/howtohelp_voluteer.php

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Come and see us in Sri Lanka, make us smile

March 13, 2012 by 1 Comment

My wife and I started a school for young adults in Maskeliya, Sri Lanka amidst the tea fields, mountains and reservoirs. In these deprived communities there is little chance of a better life, we run a number of educational programmes to increase hope, coping strategies and employment prospects, turning our 18 to 24 year olds into community change agents along the way.

We focus on empowering them to become the solution to the problems of their communities which have 85% alcoholism rate amongst the men and 83% violence against the women, leaving the youth struggling to cope with the poverty or face their futures when the standards of education and social provision are lower than anywhere else on the island.

Have a look at our short video on:

Tea Leaf Trust Sri Lanka from Damian Prestidge on Vimeo.

Come and stay with us, see the real tea estates rather than just the posters and tea packaging, teach in the school, climb Adam’s Peak, work for a morning in the tea fields… among friends who are working for change.

The best way to feel good about yourself is to help someone else.

Best wishes,

Tea Leaf Trust
www.tealeaftrust.com
info@tealeaftrust.com

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How volunteers are making a difference in Sri Lanka

September 29, 2010 by 1 Comment

The volunteer Sri Lanka Project has developed to the extent of being unrecognisable. It has the advantage of the superior accommodation as well as the proximity of the beach, and therefore attracts a huge number of volunteers.

The project now places volunteers in 2 orphanages, 4 schools, 2 nursery schools as well as a nursery school for street children, a male elder’s home, another elders home for men and women, the local hospital and the Nurses’ Training School. In addition occasional projects are undertaken with volunteer funding support such as building a new home for a poor family living in a shanty town dwelling that wasn’t weather proof and a pumped well with water tower for a poor family whose well dried up. There are also sports classes, art classes for elders as well as children and language classes for teenagers. At the NTS a small IT centre has been established for improving the nurses’ IT skills. This will be extended to the wider community when resources allow.

Local orphans spent their whole day penned in a corner of a room, without any toys and without adults to play with them until the project persuaded the orphanage staff to allow volunteers in. Now the children are taken outside into an area cleared by project volunteers where they play under a tree in the open air for a few hours. They play with sand, water, balls, ropes and other toys. It’s a whole lot better than sitting in your own pee crying all day.

All this is the result of the tremendous energy with which Janaka de Silva manages the volunteer placements and accommodation. He is supported by his extended family who seem to spend their entire day, every day, producing delicious food for the volunteers.

The latest development is the weekly evening dinner for the families of the street kids. Volunteers love to assist with this, as well as keeping company with the families. It’s good for the street families to be honoured in this way so that on Friday nights at least they feel as they matter.

Volunteers have the opportunity to affect the well being of whole sections of this area of Galle by following the ethos of this project.

This project shows how a gap year Sri Lanka and volunteer Sri Lanka can make a real difference.

Volunteer in Sri Lanka and make a real difference

Daniel
Volunteer abroad

Filed Under: Articles, Asia, Children, Community Development, Construction, Medical, Sports, Sri Lanka, Teach English
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