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Kedoo Reds
Hi,

After 15 years doing business in trading I realized, money is not the thing that is most important to me, and that I wish to spend the rest of my life doing something alse (curently I am 35) and I returned to University to study management in crises (post conflict, humanitarian, disaster...) so I can help other.

And my question is, after 3 years of Univerity (curently I am finishing 1st yea with highest posibles marks), I will have 0 days in relevant experince in humanitarian field (even do I was a CEO of a company who emploid more then a 200 people, or own my own 20 people company...), so what can you sugest I can do to get relevant experiance, I am wiling to go in the most dangerous parts of the world, do what anything needed but I am limites with: time june-september, and of course money.

Thanks for your sugestions



Report Abuse | 07 February 2012 at 9:55am
Touch Africa Network
Hi Keddo,

Thank you for your post and interest in volunteering. Moreso for embarking on a new career path in the Humanitarian Field. I wish you all the best in this endeavor.
I think its important to get hands on experience in the nitty gritty of the humanitarian world. This is only posible through perhaps volunteering in a humanitarian project or organisation. The time that you spend on the project is not as important as the variety of work you put your hands to or the depth of the work you do in a particular project.
Once you get over the chosing of the appropriate projects for you, the rest depends on how much you immerse yourself in the project interms of attitude and effort, the people you get to interact with(because iron sharpens iron), how much you can learn from all the challenges that comes from interacting with people from a totally differnt culture, administrative and best practices in the humanitaian world that you get exposed to.
There is alot you can learn from a short volunteer experience (as opposed to none at all)that 10 years in university cant teach you. I encourage you to volunteer and once you do to take every opportunity to learn as much as you can. I believe you can find every posible free and low-cost volunteer project of interest in this website if you take your time to browse through and interact with a particular project contact person.
Thank you again for your interest and i look forward to your progress.

All the best from Africa, Gibson



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