Category Archives: Multiple Opportunities
Girls Club Internship in rural India
The Girls Clubs are an opportunity for girls and young women in rural villages in northwest India between the age of 12 and 21 to enjoy new experiences, become more self-aware, gain confidence and develop skills that will help them throughout their life. Though some of the girls who attend the clubs are enrolled in school or college, but they are still limited in their daily activities by their gender. Even simple activities that allow them to get out of the home or express themselves are small steps toward the larger goal of empowerment.
The main goal of Girls Club is to build a space for girls, in which they can identify with and express themselves outside their homes. The aim of Girls Club is to facilitate new and interesting opportunities for the girls, provide them with new skills, develop and deliver awareness and information workshops and help to support them to identify and take steps towards achieving their dreams.
Furthermore, we aim to integrate the Girls Club’s with some of our other social projects. We have, for example, begun providing HIV/AIDS education in nearby secondary schools. Within the next year, we aim to expand the program to include a mentorship program (in which young Indian women work as mentors with the Girls Club) and to integrate the girls and women into the microfinance program by providing them with savings and credit assistance. Additionally, we want to expand this project to other locations in the area.
Extra skills required for the girls club project:
- Studies, experience or a strong motivation in working with women and gender related issues
- A dynamic, flexible, organized, creative, independent, strategic and dedicated work ethos
- Good communication skills
- The capacity to initiate and maintain a project with little resources
- Experience in teaching is a plus
If you are enthusiastic in working with us, please send the following information to hr@youngwomensidea.org
- Your cover letter including your motivations, fields of work interest, desired period of your internship (with start and finish dates) and expectations of the internship;
- A CV/resume including the contact information of a referee;
- A scanned copy of the page(s) of your national passport with ID details.
We will get in touch with you as soon as possible.
Start dates are flexible, however preference is given to applicants applying for more than 3 months.
Volunteer basic Computer instructor and community development officer
Teach Mbororo people (women,children and men) computer literacy (basic computer, ms office). work with school environmental clubs and be the first to initiate and participate in the first ever youth environmental forum in the north west region of Cameroon. Work in a pure farming community (animal grazing and fresh vegetable producing). consume fresh milk and cheese locally made. Teach children and sensitize them on the effects of misusing phytosanitary products. Work at UDEP office and multipurpose telecenter in Sabga-babanki tungoh.
contact udep program coordinator at: udep.cameroon@gmail.com
Volunteer Opportunities in Huanchaco, Peru
Otra Cosa Network is a registered Peruvian non-profit NGO (no. 11126841) and registered UK Charity (no. 1133680) whose goal is to connect suitable community-led projects with willing, capable volunteers in a way which truly benefits both parties. Our mission is to provide community projects with a supply of well-motivated volunteers with the right skills and experience to provide appropriate support to our projects and to give volunteers a genuinely worthwhile, affordable, satisfying and well-supported volunteer experience in Peru. Together we aim to offer life-changing provisions to both adults and children in the community-projects we partner and a life-changing social development opportunity for our volunteers.
We offer an introduction to Otra Cosa Network and life in Huanchaco upon arrival and can provide low-cost long-term accommodation options for our volunteers. Spanish language classes can also be provided and good prices with local teachers.
For more information on our projects please see www.otracosa.org or email volunteer@otracosa.org
SIKKIM, INDIA – Visit Us & Help Our New School Look Beautiful – Free – (End Nov, Dec, Early Jan)
Sunrise Academy is closed for the winter as per the school terms however we are hoping to make our newly built school look brighter and nicer for the children’s return in January. Can you help? The visitor/s to our very remote and beautiful himalayan village can undertake activities such as painting, oiling our new furniture, maybe some wood work and anything else that they or the Principal comes up with. There are also small activities you can do around the region, all nature filled and beautiful!
Whether you want to visit for 1 week or more you will undertake a minimum of 4 hours of work each day and enjoy living with a local family and understanding more about the Nepalese culture and nature…. (although in India, the area of Begha is on the border of Nepal and everything speaks, thinks and acts Nepalese 
)
Normally we accept visitors for helping the children learn so if you apply please understand the information provided to you is for the teaching side of the school… but there is still relevant information for you as well.
If you would like to visit us, please visit www.sunriseacademysikkim.com/visiting-volunteering-sikkim and all the information is available, and Apply through this site.
The cost for your visit is only to cover food and housing, which amounts to Rs 250 per week. It is up to you whether you would like to contribute towards painting etc..as every rupee helps us complete the further projects we have to make this a fully functional school providing education to those who live too far away from any school to obtain an education.
Hope to hear from you, big love from the Sunrise Academy.
When was the last time…
When was the last time you …
When was the last time you were inspired?
When was the last time you felt the hair stand up on the back of your neck?
When was the last time you heard a song that made you cry?
When was the last time your stomach dropped at the climactic end scene of a movie?
When was the last time you laughed so hard that your stomach hurt?
When was the last time cried with happiness?
When was the last time you ate so much you couldn’t move?
When was the last time you fell in love?
When was the last time you missed someone so much the very thought of them made you smile?
When was the last time you did something you’ve always wanted to do but never got the chance?
When was the last time your adrenalin pumped so hard you thought you might be able to fly?
When was the last time you saw someone’s beauty for the first time and couldn’t take your eyes off them?
When was the last time you were at a wedding and celebrated the joy the union of love?
When was the last time you were at a funeral and decided that life was too short to waste any more time?
When was the last time you cheered so hard when your sports team won a match you thought you shout forever?
When was the last time you heard the beautiful sound of a child’s laughter?
When was the last time you looked into the white of a baby’s eyes and saw the beauty of purity?
When was the last time you felt so sad you thought you would never laugh again?
When was the last time you were so hung-over you promised you would never drink again?
When was the last time you hugged your mother?
When was the last time you were lost in thought?
When was the last time you were so nervous with excitement you couldn’t function?
When was the last time you realized you had nothing to lose?
When was the last time you were inspired?
….The EXPEDITION Project 2012 is waiting for you
The beginning…
Voluntary Service in Kenya
OPPORTUNITIES FOR VOLUNTEER WORK IN KENYA
INTRODUCTION:
Our Voluntary Service in Kenya Programme is run by Education Supplements International which is a registered non-governmental (NGO) based in Nakuru, Kenya. It comprises both short and long-term volunteering.
This is a volunteer programme that aims to give opportunities to people who love and desire to live, work and contribute away from their home country environment, contribute to the progress of humanity and participate in inter-cultural richness among people of various age, gender, race, academic and economic levels.
Many volunteers have also played a significant role in poverty reduction and relief projects.
OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE:
1. Teachers
Short and long-term teaching in baby-class,nursery,primary and secondary school levels.These schools are located in Dundori Division of Nakuru North District.There are seventeen (17) schools where we attach our volunteers (Details of these schools are available on request).
2.Medical Personnel and Interns
Opportunities available at Dundori Health Centre at Dundori Centre and the Provincial General Hospital in Nakuru town.
3.Engineers
They volunteer their technical knowledge in public and community utilities/facilities and projects like schools, womens groups, water projects, the construction of the Nakuru-Dundori road, village paths among others.
4.Hand-work
Womens groups are involved in the making of African baskets, necklaces, bangles, clothing artwork for sale to generate income and improve their economic well-being of the rural women and youth.
5.Children’s Counsellors
Our organization runs the Dundori Orphans Project in Githioro Centre where a child-feeding programme is going on. Children’s counsellors have an opportunity to talk, comfort and guide orphans who are under the care of aged grandparents without much economic and academic means to assist these children.
Please visit website www.dundoriorphans.com for details of these project.
6.HIV/AIDS Social Workers
They work among men and women who are HIV/AIDS positive in this region with a high prevalence of HIV/AIDS.
7.Disability Helpers
There are several registered disability groups in Dundori region who welcome the presence of disability social workers for encouragement and involvement in their economic projects.
8.Community Project Consultants
Men, women and the youth in the villages of Menengai Hill, Wanyororo, Tabuga, Gakoe, Cura, Githioro, Umoja, Nyonjoro and Kiamunyeki are involved in community projects to enhance their social-economic status and reduce poverty. Community project consultants have a big opportunity to offer their knowledge and technical expertise in this sector.
9.Conservationists
The conservation and revival of Dundori Forest is a very active endeavour in Dundori Division. Tree planting by organized community groups present an opportunity for conservationists eager to preserve our earth.
10.Sports Coaches and Teachers
The youth have a very organized sports development and competition programme in both Dundori Division and Nakuru Town in soccer, athletes, basketball, netball, swimming, etc. Sports coaches have the opportunity to give their sporting talents to these young people who would otherwise be involved in anti-social activities like alcoholism, drug-addiction and crime.
11.Relief and Development
Distribution of food, clothing, mosquito nets and medicines in Dundori Division, slums and streets of Nakuru town and other needy areas, like in refugee camps in the arid areas of the North (like Turkana and Samburu Districts) and North-Eastern Kenya(like Dadaab Refugee Camp which is currently the largest refugee camp in the world), orphanages and Kibera slum (which is Africa’s largest urban slum) is an ever-present opportunity to individuals and groups.
We also organize medical clinics by medical personnel from overseas in these areas.
COMMUNICATION AND TRANSPORT
Transport to Nakuru town (which is the fourth largest town in Kenya and rated to be the fastest growing urban area in East and Central Africa) is easily available through public transport (called Matatu in Kenya, which are mainly Nissan/Toyota fourteen-seater vans) and is at most a thirty-minute drive from Dundori (15 kms. away).
Phones and Cyber/Internet facilities are available only a kilometre from the place of accommodation.
Visitors take a taxi from Jomo Kenyatta Airport in Nairobi and stay in a hotel or guest house for overnight, rest before taking a matatu at the Mololine Station at Cross Road in Nairobi for a journey to Nakuru which is 156 km (two-hour drive) from Nairobi.
ACCOMMODATION
We offer a host-family accommodation at “CAMP DAVID” Guest House where clean water, electricity, food and bed-rooms are available in a secure rural setting in Dundori.
The volunteer contributes US$250.00 per month (4 weeks) per person for food, water, electricity and general accommodation.
SOCIAL INTER-ACTION
We encourage our visiting volunteers to be eager to learn simple Kiswahili (which is the national language in Kenya and spoken throughout East African countries) words for greetings and social meetings like Jambo!(Hi), Habari Yako? (how are you?), wewe unaitwa nani? (what is your name?), unatoka wapi? (where do you come from?), etc.
VISA
Visas are required to visit Kenya by nationals of most countries in the world. We assist in the processing of a visa by writing a letter of invitation to the Kenyan Embassy or High Commission in the country where the volunteer comes from.
To all our future volunteers and partners,we say:
KARIBU KENYA!
(WELCOME TO KENYA!)
Looking forward to working with you.
Kindest regards,
Nicholas Ng’ang’a
Executive Director
Education Supplements International
P.O. Box 3305
Nakuru
KENYA
Email: edsupintl@yahoo.com
Phone: 020 362 8347
0703 905 770
0739 879 260
Skype: educationsupplements
Volunteering in Rural Villages – Uganda (Fee)
Mzungu a charity working to provide quality volunteer travel opportunities in Uganda. We focus on displaced children, education, and community development in villages and rural areas around Uganda. We offer the volunteer the ability to provide these villages and people a much needed service at a very affordable price.
Our Charity was established to link like-minded travelers looking to make a difference in African villages where the need is greatest in Uganda while at the same time enjoying some thrilling adventure experiences while they are here.
Our volunteers can experience and take part in life changing service programs where the local staff and communities benefit from the volunteers as well as the financial assistance provided to them by means of supporting rural families and local projects.
Volunteer in Uganda in Kampala, Jinja or Kabale. There are many activities available to you as a volunteer including spending time at a our orphanage taking care of the children, teaching in rural schools, working on building and renovation projects for both schools and safe water, feeding children in a nearby village, and working on farming projects available all year around.
All of the people we work with face a variety of challenges in their lives; from education to health care for their children to safety as well as obtaining secure housing and healthy food. Like all people, they face these challenges with hope and joy as well as dissapointment and sadness. As a volunteer, you will face these and other issues together. You will be asked to challenge yourself and step outside of your comfort zone in many, many ways.
Volunteer Program Costs: We strive hard to keep costs low and offer you the lowest prices with professional services to volunteer abroad.
Secure your place with a one-time donation of $200 to register with Mzungu Volunteers.
Program Fee Uganda Volunteering- (Prices in USD)
1 wk | 2 wks | 3 wks | 4wks | 5 wks | 6 wks | Extra
120 |250 | 350 | 450 | 650 | 750 | 100
This small donation covers the volunteer’s food and accommodation during their stay with us. We look forward to having you and giving you this experience for a lifetime!
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Accommodations
Mzungu Volunteers Accommodations,modern and traditional homes .You will be sharing room with other volunteers (we have twin and four bed roomed rooms and outside safari tents).
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Prerequisites
Volunteers must be 17 years or older at the beginning of the program. Volunteers need to have an open mind and flexible attitude for working in a new and different environment. The volunteer should bring energy and enthusiasm to make a difference.
- To Apply, Please contact Kennedy at kennedy@mzunguvolunteers.org or visit www.mzunguvolunteers.org
- To Apply, Please contact Kennedy at kennedy@mzunguvolunteers.org or visit www.mzunguvolunteers.org
Volunteer for Ethnic Minority Youth in Sapa
The Sapa district is very close to the border with China. The Hoang Lien Son range of mountains dominates the district, which is at the eastern extremity of the Himalayas. This range includes Vietnam’s highest peak, Fansipan Mountain at 3,142m above sea level, and a vast area covered by thick forest, which is very rich in wildlife. The township of Sapa lies on a hill station at the attitude of about 1,600m and was built by the French into a famous summer resort with some one hundred colonial villas which was well-known as “ Tonkin’s Alps”. The complicated terrain of Sapa including the steeped high mountains with sharp cuts and large valleys, many streams of water in combination with sloped terraced paddies form magnificent scenery.
Sapa is also an ideal environment for a great diversity of ethnic minority people. For nearly two decades in an attempt to turn Sapa into one of the country’s premier tourist destination, the local ethnic people have experienced great changes, many of them negative, like ethnic minority children who left school to work for the tourist dollar from an early age, initially selling crafts to tourists or trying to become a tour guide. It is difficult life for these children without an education. An informal educational centre has now been set up by VFCD to help them improve their current situation and hopes for the future through learning how to read and write in Vietnamese and English. They also learn Math, Art, and other life skills such as how to make handicrafts, or other ways to support themselves.
At the moment VFCD hosting a center for community studying in Sapa town, our students are minority youth from Sapa and the surrounding villages. Some of them already work as tour guides; others make a living through selling handicrafts in the streets of Sapa. Most of the students have very little schooling, and some do not know how to read and write. It is crucial for their future that they learn these skills. All the students have expressed their happiness and gratitude for the opportunity to learn from the centre
Currently, both Vietnamese and international volunteers teach oral and written Vietnamese and English. Classes take place every afternoon and evening. We feel that it is very important for local youth to know these languages, being crucial for them to make the most of limited job opportunities in Sapa. It is our hope that this program will help the local youth to adapt to a more confident and healthy lifestyle and that they will make better use of the opportunities available to them.
The program is great opportunity to make a difference and discovery one of one of the most wonderful places in Asia and is a magical combination of landscapes, ethnic cultures and bracing mountain air.
Program Requirements
Volunteers must be 17 years or older at the beginning of the program. Volunteers need to have an open mind and flexible attitude for working in a new and different environment. The volunteer should bring energy and enthusiasm to make a difference.
Volunteer recruitment:
What skills are needed: Willingness and open mind
How long volunteers can stay: 1 to 12 week
Food and accommodation provision: providing by us
Age requirements: 18+
Languages: English
Contact
Volunteer for Community Development& Environment Education Organization
Address : No 4, Lane 23, Xuan La street, Tay Ho District, Hanoi, Vietnam
Phone : (+84)4 858 734 30 +841998684559
Email : vfcd.org@gmail.com
Website : www.vfcd.org
http://picasaweb.google.com/vfcd.org/
Contact person: Trinh Son
Kenya Youth Volunteering (LOCAL FEE)
Teaching Program
Other volunteer work available includes teaching at both primary and secondary schools. All children at the schools come from local villages {communities}.
Subjects taught include English, Mathematics, Science, Christian Religious Education, Arts & Crafts, Music and Social Studies. Volunteers are also encouraged to use their initiative to come up with extra-curricular activities, sports and other learning activities.
Women Empowerment &Elimination of FMG
Volunteers work in a rescue centre which accommodates women and girls rescued from forced marriages and those rescued from forced Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) practices within the communities that practice among the Maasai,Turkana,Samburu to mention but a few.
Volunteers teach girls the importance of being a woman in a society where they are highly undervalued. Women and girls are also taught hygiene, nutrition, small business skills etc.
The women at the rescue centers are smart and passionate. They are ready to educate their children, nurture their families and change their communities by engaging in small business projects, getting educated etc. Their passion and dedication will impress you. You will also be encouraged by their stories. Eg help in enhancing the status of some tribes like Masai people and the Masai tribe in society.
Volunteer in Orphanage Abroad
A large number of poor and disadvantaged children without homes are given refuge in orphanages and shelter homes being run by various non governmental organizations.
Volunteer in Orphanage Abroad
Request for more information.
Program description
A large number of poor and disadvantaged children without homes are given refuge in orphanages and shelter homes being run by various non government organizations throughout the world.
These are distressed children who come from difficult circumstances that detach them from the joys of childhood. These orphans require love, care, affection warmth and education. Volunteers working in our ‘Help The Orphans’ program Kenya, Uganda ,Ruanda,Burudi Ethiopia ,Congo, Sudan and Malawi among other African countries will provide support to the underprivileged and uncared for children to alleviate their suffering by helping them live a dignified life . We do this by supporting the work of local community organization in Kenya through the placement of international volunteers.
Orphans are deprived of many opportunities necessary for their development. Volunteers can help them fill this void in their lives by assisting the staff in the orphanage in organizing educational tours ,playing indoor and outdoor games ,teaching them English ,giving them basic computer knowledge and educate the young kids in a play way method. Volunteers can give tips to the kids about personal hygiene and help them in keeping their premises spic and span. They also help the children with their homework and prepare them for school.
Your little help can be of great significance for these children, helping to make their present secure and future promising. Spend time with them. Receive their warmth and affection. Tell them stories. Share their dreams. Working in an orphanage is a truly fulfilling and enriching experiences.http://www.kvcdp.org/children.php
General program information
Program open to: Everyone
Age range: 16-60
Travel to site: Independent Travel
Is opportunity more independent or group orientated: Varies
No. in group: 3-4
Living arrangements on the program: Apartment, Group living, Home stays (living with local families)
How long does the program last?: Various Durations
What are the dates of this program: The program runs throughout the year and volunteers can choose to start on any date.
Benefits and advantages of the program:
An enriching experience for any traveler. Help and explore the country at the same time.
End of Program.
Homeward bond
After completion of your volunteer program we hold a debriefing session with other international, local volunteers and staff Here, participants say their good-byes, express their gratitude to other volunteers and staff, share Experiences and come up with suggestions for improvements before being escorted back to their Hostels/Hotels /Homes awaiting flights or departures.
Benefits of Volunteering in Nepal (FEE)
Volunteering is the practice of working for a particular cause without any payments for their time and services. The volunteers may come from a wide range of personal and professional background. But, the spirit of Volunteerism comes from the compassion for humanity, having a magnanimous heart to help others.
Nepal is one of the most beautiful and welcoming countries in the world. But, Nepal is one of the most under developed countries and volunteering here could not be more important. Nearly 50% of the population of Nepal lives below poverty. Majority of the people in Nepal are forced to live the hard lives without the resources to maintain their basic needs with the low rates of literacy, high rates of poverty, unemployment and gender imbalance.
Numerous volunteering opportunities are available both in rural and urban areas of Nepal such as working in orphanage, teaching English in schools or monasteries, medical care, health education and a variety of community works. When you volunteer here you will really see the difference your hard work makes and the life changing possibilities your work will provide.
International volunteering is an immense way to gain experience living in a developing country, learning about another culture and experiencing a different ways of life. Volunteering in the remote parts of Nepal and working with people from different ethnical groups is a fantastic way to grow as a person. Travelling to a foreign land and working as a volunteer is an adventure in itself. Volunteering can also be a great tool for self discovery and self-esteem. There are other personal benefits which include developing international friendships and networks, social awareness, and building independence.
If someone is looking for something worthwhile to do in the field of volunteering, Nepal should be on the top of their list as a Volunteering Destination because it provides a unique opportunity to work in an environment with great cultural and geographical diversity.
Volunteering Organization for Rural Development
Naya Bazaar, 16
PO BOX: 25908
Kathmandu, Nepal
Contact Person: Sandip Khanal
info@govolunteernepal.org
Volunteering in Nepal
