18 Jan 2016

Hello there fellow Helpers!  New Years was a few weeks ago, which means there's still time to think of a resolution. And even though you can come up with thoughtful changes and habits any day of the year, try and use this month to consider making a promise to yourself. Promise to help others :)  In promising to volunteer more, regardless of whether it's far away or locally... you'll help make a difference in someone's life. And you'll feel different too. Better, more accomplished, and hopefully a lot kinder.  So make some changes for the better in 2016 and take a look at all of our projects and events and hopefully there will be something that catches your eye and motivates you to give back to others.  Happy New Year and Happy Helping!          

17 Jan 2016

About us The International Humanity Foundation (IHF) is seeking forward-thinking, dynamic individuals of all ages/backgrounds to contribute to our children’s home in Chiang Rai, Thailand as part of our Voluntourist program. As a Voluntourist, you would gain hands-on experience with an international not-for-profit NGO at the ground level and contribute your time and talents to substantially helping provide better opportunities for young people. About the role You will complete four hours of at-center work a day. These tasks vary from day to day. In our children’s home in Thailand, daily tasks will include assisting with homework and organizing projects and activities for the children. You will also provide the co-Directors with needs-based assistance in the daily maintenance of the center, becoming a part of the IHF family and integral to the work we do. This is an ideal opportunity to gain first-hand experience in international development, but still have time to explore a new place and culture.  Our Thailand center is in the vicinity of incredible temples, waterfalls and scenery. You will have plenty of time to visit these incredible settings, but work must remain a priority. By both volunteering and sightseeing, you will have a unique experience, and hopefully you will leave our center with a better understanding of your surroundings and IHF as an organization. Requirements You must be fluent in written and spoken English. We value volunteers who­ are creative and innovative, willing to take responsibility and easily adapt to new conditions and unexpected situations. Minimum commitment of 2 weeks. Minimum age 18 years old or above 16 with parent’s consent, unless volunteering in family. Each IHF center is a product of its environment and follows the cultural code and norms of its host country. So must our staff and interns. Our volunteers must have high inter­-cultural sensitivity and be tolerant to different views and ways of life. Fee We provide basic accommodation and food at our centers, where you will live with your co-workers. Unfortunately, as a non-profit, we are unable to provide these amenities freely and we charge a minimal cost of $150 per week. We are not able to cover travel or insurance expenses or any other related costs, but we will help you with your travel and visa planning. Apply Please familiarize yourself further with our organization reading the IHF Annual report 2014 that contains the latest information about IHF Centers, Programs, Achievements, Finances and many more at http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/1317609/1928b08739/TEST/TEST/ and our blog where you can find stories of current and former volunteers http://ihfblog.wordpress.com/home/     We were given a  2013 Inspiring Story -- Responsible Tourism Award! Read more about it at  http://rt.wildasia.org/2013/10/25/2013-inspiring-stories-destinations/. See our great ratings at http://greatnonprofits.org/reviews/international-humanity-foundation-1/. If you have any questions at this time, feel free to e-mail one of our helpful volunteers at [email protected] . If you’re ready to apply, send your CV to [email protected]

11 Jan 2016

Sorry for not writing sooner but Christmas and New was spent with my wife and baby daughter and it was her first I wanted to spend more time with them. So what have we been up to over the festive period, not too much to be honest but leading up to it Shree Rupa School finally had internet installed and the students are currently learning the basics of research and study online. We will be putting more volunteers in over 2016 to help with English plus searching and applying for jobs online, CV writing, social networking and letter writing. These are not skills that the children will have a final exam on but are life skills that will help them when they leave school and start looking for new opportunities. Shree Rupa is the first school EHN has provided power and internet to and we will be looking to do the same with another school this year. One such school would be Shree Durga in Gorkha which is the school EHN is helping to rebuild after it was destroyed in the Earthquake. Once we have the school built we will send a team in to paint and then follow up with teaching volunteers. As we work closer with them we can assess the benefits of getting them online and hopefully will do so by the end of 2016 or start of 2017 depending on funds and construction progress. The only other news from EHN for late Dec was the attendance by Phil of the annual awards ceremony at Shree Rupa School which was held on Dec 27th. Phil attended and was made Guest of honour by the School in recognition of all the help and support EHN has given the school over the last two years. EHN was awarded a token of love from the school board with many local government and educational officials also offering thanks of support for their local Government school. Many of the students were awarded gifts for high levels of achieving and two of the teachers received similar awards for working hard to improve the level of lessons taught. The New Year came in quit quietly for us in Nepal as we have a New Year on April 15th making the western New Year less of an event. Now we are into 2016 and still looking to get the permission from the Board of Education to rebuild Shree Durga School plus raise more funds to complete the entire 8 classrooms school. Once again, Happy New Year to you all and thank you for help and support over what has been one of the toughest years for Nepal since the civil war over 10 years ago.

16 Nov 2015

HARLEM RBI provides inner-city youth with opportunities to play, learn and grow. Using power of teams to coach, teach and they inspire youth to recognize their potential and realize their dreams. https://www.harlemrbi.org/Volunteer/volunteer9.html NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY serves over two million meals per year in East Harlem at the city's only food pantry open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. http://www.nycommonpantry.org/volunteer.html FOOD BANK distributes 68 million pounds of food to approximately 1,200 emergency and community food programs. http://www.foodbanknyc.org/how-you-can-help/volunteer DOE FUND provides housing and transitional work for homeless men who have histories of addiction and incarceration. Email Madeline Kaye. ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN provides pre-school programs, housing and medical services and crisis intervention to 3,000 families with children in East Harlem, most of whom suffer from mental and physical disabilities. http://www.a-b-c.org/volunteer.htm PART OF THE SOLUTION operates a soup kitchen and food pantry for 1,300 people a day in the Bronx providing social services, a Single Stop site and a small men’s shelter. Email Kimberly Roginski. GO PROJECT offers Saturday tutoring and mentoring and an academically focused summer program to high-poverty, low performing children in grades kindergarten through five. http://www.goprojectnyc.org/get-involved/volunteer-opportunities CITY HARVEST links the food industry and countless organizations, foundations, corporations and private citizens together to help feed their hungry neighbors. City Harvest helps feed the more than one million New Yorkers that face hunger each year. http://www.cityharvest.org/volunteer/volunteer-opportunities UPWARDLY GLOBAL works to eliminate employment barriers for skilled immigrants and refugees and integrate this population into the professional U.S. workforce. http://www.upwardlyglobal.org/volunteers/volunteer-opportunities/become-a-volunteer HOPE PROGRAM empowers New Yorkers to achieve economic self-sufficiency through employment and by blending vocational, education, and social services.  http://www.thehopeprogram.org/get-involved CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES provides immediate, effective and comprehensive employment services to men and women with recent criminal convictions. Email Julian Tancredi. FORTUNE SOCIETY Supports successful reentry from prison and promotes alternatives to incarceration. http://fortunesociety.org/get-involved/volunteer/ IMENTOR improves the lives of high school students from underserved communities through evidence-based, technology-enabled mentoring. http://www.imentor.org/become-a-mentor READING PARTNERS is dedicated to transforming struggling young readers into confident readers who are excited about learning through one-on-one instruction. http://www.readingpartners.org/volunteer

08 Sep 2015

I arrived in Arequipa to start work at Volunteers Peru in early January 2013. I had a connection to Marita, the founder, through a friend and I had spent a few months volunteering in Arequipa with a different organisation, so I didn't quite go into it blind, but almost. I knew that Volunteers Peru was a very small and new organisation and that it would be my job to really get it off the ground. Marita had done the legal groundwork and made the connections to the partner projects, but from there it was up to me to make it happen. For the first few weeks I spent time getting systems and paperwork together and getting our name out there on various volunteering websites. I also spent many happy mornings with the girls at the Casa Hogar Torre Fuerte, one of our projects, building a good relationship with them and the staff. It was summer holidays for the girls, so we got to have playtime every day which was great and lovely to get to really know them. My friend Eva arrived at the beginning of that first month to take up the voluntary position of Project Coordinator. Together we started to solidify our processes. In April we went to Tomepampa, the location of our second project, Honofre Benavides school. Tomepampa was to become just about my favourite place in the world. It is a tiny village in the spectacular Cotahuasi Canyon. We did classroom support, got to know the children and had a thoroughly wonderful time. Having spent time getting to know both projects we were able to look at the needs of the children in both locations and look at ways that Volunteers Peru could help to fill the gaps. At the school we agreed that volunteers would support the English teacher and at the Casa Hogar volunteers would spend time with the girls and help with homework where necessary. We had had a few walk-ins, but our first planned and pre-booked volunteers arrived in June and they got to work. Over that first summer we had a lot of great volunteers through and were able to see what worked and what didn't, and then make appropriate adjustments. In the lead up to Christmas we took a significant step forwards and received our official registration as an NGO. We also held some very successful fundraisers and were really carving out a place for ourselves amongst the other small volunteer NGOs operating in Arequipa. I had originally signed up to be in Peru for a year but I decided to come back after Christmas for a few months more to make sure that everything was really up and running as it should be and would be sustainable. Having now left, I can look back and know that that goal was reached. Everything got bigger and better in our second year of work. There were more volunteers, we started new fundraising initiatives, we continued to streamline our processes and we started the NGO's registration to be able to work with international funds. Just as I was preparing to leave we had two really exciting things happen. The first was successfully applying for support from the NGO Goodwill Globetrotting who came to install a sewing workshop for training at the Casa Hogar. The second was confirmation of a school exchange between Honofre Benavides school in Tomepampa and New Eccles Hall school in England. I look back on my time at Volunteers Peru with so much affection and pride. With a very small team and limited resources we built an organisation that helps to support disadvantaged and marginalised children. We are genuinely part of the community. All of our volunteers have a great experience and we worked very hard to ensure ethical processes so that the children feel that they are valued and supported, rather than a nice photo opportunity in somebody's holiday. I think that having a local manager such as Marita is absolutely vital to make sure that everything is culturally appropriate, and without her we would have failed miserably! I miss Peru every day - the Casa Hogar girls, the Tomepampa students, my amazing colleagues and friends Eva and Marita, all of our volunteers and supporters are always in my thoughts. I know that they will continue to move forwards and progress, and I feel happy and proud to have played my part in that. This post was originally published at http://www.volunteerworld.com/

14 Aug 2015

The aim of this blog is to establish a wide-based community movement which encourages the positive involvement of international volunteers to develop people with fewer opportunities as well as to promote education for all In order to transform our communities, we will focus on three main areas: - Preschool Education -Youth Empowerment -Civic education programs

11 Aug 2015

I love it when music videos try to build awareness towards social issues.  Though the rock band Nickleback hasn't gotten the best publicity lately, they've definitely helped advocate for awareness through one of their older videos titled "If Everyone Cared".        They highlight how people single handedly attempted to tackle poverty, famine, and politically motivated violence. Many of those who attempted to do so made a huge difference in the world.                                    Check out the music video by clicking here.  If you know of any other music videos that portary the strength of solidarity and how people have been able to make change happen one small effort at a time. Hopefully this inspires you all to try volunteering more often, I know it helped me want to go volunteer more.  -A 

09 Aug 2015

https://youtu.be/1EftQ-sp1CU

04 Aug 2015

Teaching at rural school of Nepal- Youth Activation Nepal Education lies at the core of our development and conservation objectives, because knowledge builds individual capacity, understanding and ultimately creates greater choice. Youth activation Nepal supports schools in rural villages of Nepal from nursery, primary and secondary. Our role in schools is to help teachers design and deliver a more engaging and productive environment for their students as well as supporting extracurricular activities. The volunteer will be placed in local host family with Nepalese family standard. You will discover how appreciative your host family will be and no doubt will learn a lot in return. Volunteers will teach health education/sanitation/math/English to school children each day for six days (Saturday is the day off). During this period volunteers will have the opportunity to participate in local festivals and get the opportunity to exchange their culture. YAN charges a small fee to cover costs but this would cover everything from airport pickup, basic Nepali food, lodging, travel and supporting the projects of YAN. This would be just $12 per day and + $70 admin fee. And this wouldn’t need to be paid until you arrive So if you are planning to volunteer this year in Nepal and would like to help an organization, you can be proud of then please contact at [email protected] YAN Is officially registered under the Society Act with the District Administration Office Lalitpur (Affiliate No. 3767), and is also affiliated to the Social Welfare Council Nepal (SWC) (Affiliation No.37306).

10 Jul 2015

Volunteers wishing to get involved in one of our Community Development Initiatives (CDI) will work as part of a team dedicated to a particular project pertaining to one of our main program areas: Education, Women Empowerment, Youth Development, and Environmental Conservation.  These volunteers have the chance to interact directly with the community by preparing and coordinating workshops and activities with local counterpart organizations, community groups, government agencies, and NGOs whose goals are closely related to those of BoHU.  They are also actively involved in the execution of educational training workshops and project monitoring and evaluation.  BoHU’s Community Development Initiatives provide volunteers the unique opportunity to continuously improve program parameters and best practices.  Our programs are constantly enriched by the participation and insight of volunteers with a wide range of experience and educational backgrounds. You will have the opportunity to try different roles and projects, dependent on your interests and skills. These volunteer opportunities do not require specialized skills (although these would be an advantage), and we accept volunteers for both short and long-term placements, all the year round. Volunteers certainly gain an amazing life experience from their participation in our placement program. On first arrival, most volunteers sample all the projects before selecting the tasks that suit them best. The first few days of your placement will be orientation and adjusting to Ugandan life. After this initial period, your placement work will begin. The type of work you are involved with will be dependent on your interests, abilities, level of experience as well as your comfort levels. One of the advantages of the Community project is that you are not limited to one job role and will have the opportunity to ‘sample’ other roles during your placement. To become involved in another projects simply inform a member of staff who will happily make any necessary arrangements. Volunteer work side by side the locals’ on-going brick construction and water building projects, youth projects, healthcare outreaches and women empowerment projects in the community. Volunteers needed for manual labor jobs working alongside skilled and unskilled local workers. Some tasks include farming, animal rearing, construction of the volunteer center, expansion, water well building and renovation work. Volunteers do not need prior experience, but skilled workers are very welcome.  This is a very hand on, hands dirty sort of program. Enthusiasm, a good sense of humor and helping spirit are required. More Information about the project: Program Length: From 1 week to 6 months Program Date: Flexible Start & End Date Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8 hour per day Accommodations: Host family (Volunteers Home) Meals: 3 meals are provided everyday Age requirement: 18 years and above Costs:USD$ 1 Week - $200 2 Weeks -$300 3 Weeks -$400 4 Weeks -$500 5 Weeks -$700 6 Weeks -$800 7 Weeks -$900 8 Weeks -$1000 Placement Booking: $100 Airport pickup: $85 We don’t charge application fees, we screen applications first, before accepting them into our program, but once accepted, all programs attract a Placement Booking fee $100 paid in 7days of acceptance in the program Contacts: [email protected] Website: www.beaconofhopeug.org

15 Jun 2015

Giving an animal is like giving someone a small business, providing wool, milk, and meat. Animal donations can provide families a hand up, increasing access to medicine, school, food and a sustainable livelihood. Goats provide families with protein and income to help them survive and thrive. One dairy goat can give up to 250 liters of milk a day. Join other persons of goodwill as we create a better future for children in need. To learn more Click here

21 May 2015

Interested in going to China this summer? Want to do something meaningful while you travel? Want to get involved in local communities more than just a visitor and make a positive impact? If you answered yes to all of these questions, join us this summer as a volunteer in China! Through this summer program, volunteers will teach English to local students, promote diverse cultures, gain first-hand knowledge of rural education in China, learn basic Chinese, visit the Great Wall, and experience Chinese culture and much more! Visit http://www.ueafc.org/npoen/morenew.asp?id=2684 to learn more! The Chinese version of our website contains up-to-date information on our recent events and programs. So please stop by http://www.tj.xinhuanet.com/web/ueafc/ to see the pictures from our events and volunteer activities even if you cannot read Chinese. Still have questions? Email us at [email protected] or [email protected].

14 May 2015

We Nepalise are suffering from big earthquake.so we neep any sort of help,if you are interested.

30 Apr 2015

Hello, For the year 2015, the association AVS Volunteerism and Solidarity (Ouarzazate, Morocco) is organizing two international projects of volunteer work and cultural exchange : _______AVSJUILET- 19 Juillet - 05 Août AVS 1 Kids : International work camp of child animation (Atrelier Music, Theatre Workshop, Clown, out with the kids) AVS 2 Painting : International  work camp of Painting  (Fresco, Drawing ....) AVS 3 Gardening : International work camp of Gardening (gardening design ....) _______AVSJUILET- 10 August - 26 August AVS 4 Kids : International work camp of child animation (Atrelier Music, Theatre Workshop, Clown, out with the kids) AVS 5 Painting : International  work camp of Painting  (Fresco, Drawing ....) AVS 6 Gardening : International work camp of Gardening (gardening design ....) For more information on these two sites, which also contain several activities for volunteers (visits, excursions, parties ... nationality ...) www.avsozt.org please visit our website or contact us by email at: info @ avsozt.org or avs.ozt(at)hotmail.com as you can contact the AVS ambassador to France: info(at)avsozt.org best regards AVS ------------------- Why This Project ------------------------------- Why this project? There are no much facilities for children in Ouarzazate and its neighborhood. It is not the habit that children have toys. and schools have no playgrounds or schoolyards. A lot of children are bored, hanging around, doing nothing. For these children AVS wants to organize activities in the summer to give them a nice holiday. AVS aims to attract especially children from poor families, Method The children will be grouped according to their age. Each team of volunteers will guide a group of children. Volunteers are free to design the program and choose activities according to their own whishes and the preferences of the children. Examples of activities are theater, dance, music, games and sports. Again, volunteers have to take into account that there are limited materials available. Before your arrival we expect you to have many ideas of activities to do for the kids, so when you are preparing the work with other volunteers you can participate giving ideas and propose activites. Mostly children understand the games/tasks by giving a first example, but there are also permanent translators in case. Accommodation Volunteers will stay together in a house. Who can participate? Everybody with the minimum age of 18 years old and who is strongly motivated and creative. Apply at: http://www.avsozt.org/en/subscribe-international-work-camp.html