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WHAT YOU CAN DO > volunteer and work |
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Volunteer your skills and time or spread the word
with your family, friends, colleagues. To find a tailor-made volunteer possibility, you have several choices: · you search online for an organization you wish to work for and contact it directly · you enter an online charities portal and use their search engine, specifying when, where and for how long you are available. You will be provided with a selection of organizations which could make use of you.
For a very extensive list of available volunteering opportunities, check the useful del.icio.us listings
Here are some useful portals: Eldis.org development Jobs www.networkforgood.org/volunteer portal in which you use a search tool to find volunteer opportunities at a large number of charities that match your interests and geographic location, or search for an organization by name. www.netaid.org the largest database of online volunteering opportunities and a collection of commented links to non-profit organisations covering all geographical areas and all areas of activity www.charityvillage.com is a Canadian super-site with extensive job and volunteer opportunities, information on non-profit organisations, news, resources, how-to articles, event listings, educational opportunities, background and legal information for non-profit organisations. www.oneworld.org One world is among the first highly professional and very large non-profit portal with 10 national/ regional websites in 7 languages, containing many many links to organisations which offer volunteer and donating possibilities. Information is frequently updated, there are campaigns to support and specialised 'channels' for several topics as learning, AIDS, etc. www.unvolunteers.org/volunteers/index.htm
is the UN site for volunteering within its organisations, field projects etc.www.unvolunteers.org/volunteers/options/abroad/otherops.htm
contains global links to organisations which organise volunteer opportunities
outside the UN. www.volunteermatch.org www.interaction.org/ InterAction is
the largest alliance of U.S.-based international development and humanitarian
nongovernmental organizations. www.globalcharityjobs.com lists
a number of opportunities for both work and volunteering www.charitablechoices.org/ has
been helping charities jointly promote themselves in workplace fund-raising
campaigns, especially the federal government's Combined Federal Campaign
(CFC) and lists a number of
organizations, classified by type If you are a “techie”, i.e. if you know a lot about IT, check out www.geekcorps.org And
of course you can check out the websites
of the main charities, for example: Oxfam
www.oxfam.org/en/getinvolved/volunteer/index.htm
(volunteering) or www.oxfam.org/en/getinvolved/jobs/index.htm
(jobs) www.hopeworldwide.org is present in numerous
countries around the globe, supporting children, women, leprosy
patients, educational programmes, senior citizens, aids hospices, etc. www.india.hopeworldwide.org set up health
programmes for children, but then also developed into educational activities
for kids, then offering professional training, then supporting and educating
mothers and now also taking care of elderly people who have no families to
support them. Hope India also built hospices for HIV/aids patients and an
entire village for leprosy patients and their families. We have visited a
school run by Hope India in And
last but not least use Google or Yahoo
(philanthropy
or
charity) to find more!
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