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NGOabroad
International Careers & Volunteering |
Volunteer Programs
Africa
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NGOabroad will be closed
August 16- September 16
so that we can visit our African colleagues.
Want to volunteer in September or October?
Please get your application in before July 15. |
Some of our opportunities in Africa are for everyone; others require
travel or cultural savvy or certain skills.
Broad
sketches & requirements are indicated. Email answered Questionnaire & we can
find one that is right for you.
"This place has an infectious throb!"
Wide variety of program
activities to choose from: teaching in schools, working with
children or in hospital, coach sports, conservation, or radio or
print journalism.
Great for first-timers to Africa or seasoned veterans. "Incredibly friendly &
safe!"
More able to accommodate special needs, families and/or retired
or make custom fit packages for the very
experienced!
Your host goes out of their way to take you to drumming, dancing &
sights.
Skills needed: Well suited to everyone, wide variety of skills &
ages.
Send us your answered Questionnaire & resume & then we can talk. |
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Heart
Medicine: AIDS
Many volunteers ask to work
with children orphaned by AIDS. The AIDS pandemic has touched many
lives and many people's hearts. By 2010, there will be approximately
18 million children orphaned by AIDS. Volunteers also request to teach AIDS prevention. We've got both AIDS
prevention & AIDS orphans work. These posts are suited to
almost everyone.
Skills needed:
Strong people skills; big heart. Experience with youth or
children.
Helpful: Nanny or parenting skills! Herding kids to bed, doing homework,
talking over the day.
Helpful: sports, music, photography, art or drama skills.
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We also have AIDS positions that require strong professional skills:
Nutritionists. Teachers. Counselors. Pastoral care. Psychology.
Seasoned hospice & care givers.
Massage& music therapists. Social work. |
"When we go to the villages, there are mostly children. The parents have died.” This
AIDS doctor is on the go and only wants professionals to assist: Doctors,
Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, & Ophthalmologists.
Medical personnel are needed all over the world. If working with the
AIDS Doctor does not fit for you but you are interested in international
service, ask for a Consult & Roadmap of Resources. |
Educating
girls uplifts society.
The founders of this program understand that if you
want to
uplift society, you must educate the girls. Girls have been left out of
education, but here the
girls take center stage. The founders realized that to get the girls
to school, they have to strengthen the entire community, so they
have 4 foci: Education; Health; Livelihoods/ Business;
Infrastructure.
Come help develop this exciting new school.
Requires skills that contributes to their mission:
Teachers! Academics & Vocational skills.
Public Health, Nurses, Pre-med
Social workers.
Health Prevention & Promotion
Business developers. Communication & marketing.
Librarians. Tutors.
Sewing. Crafts. Fair trade.
Sanitation, water
Roads, electricians
People to help shift local attitudes about girls getting an
education.
Development workers to help increase family incomes to afford
school. |

c.Wintry Whitt-Smith |

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Refugees:
Rebuilding Lives
In the 1990's, there were 7 million too many refugees on the African
continent.
We have intentionally built Partners Programs in several refugee
camps. We need you.
These posts require some international experience & skills:
Teach children & adult literacy.
Teach computers. Math & Accounting. Vocational skills. English.
Social workers, counselors & psychologists. Youth & refugee
workers.
Art therapists. Trauma counselors. Musicians. Drama. Sports.
Writers & journalists to teach writing. Human rights trainers.
Teaching practical skills to help people make a living:
hair cutting, auto mechanics, carpentry, crafts.
Marketing skills to sell crafts.
Appropriate technology. Water & sanitation engineers. |
Testimonial: "The hospitality of the African people
is unreal. I witnessed the realities and hardships faced by doctors
practicing
in
a rural environment. The staff were willing to accommodate
any concerns or plans I had. I slept easy because I knew this
was what I
should be doing."
Rooting Peace
in Post
Conflict Africa
This organization has strong roots in the villages. It was built
from the ground up to ensure that peace
prevails in their post-conflict nation. They understand the
importance of "capacity building", literacy & building livelihoods
to ensure peace.
Requires international experience & skills:
Community organizing & development
Program & project management
Leadership development, capacity building
Youth & women's empowerment
Micro-finance & business development
Literacy & adult education
Agriculture & rural development
Water & sanitation
Conflict prevention & resolution
Counseling; esp. post traumatic
Teach skills: preserving foods; sewing; crafts; mechanics;
carpenters; tourism
Testimonial: "When I got to my town, they had a
huge cultural dance just for me!
You have no idea how happy I am
here. My host family is awesome and my room is very nice. This
afternoon the whole NGO will meet and formally introduce me and we
will decide
on the work that I will do. I feel very welcome here and know I will
have a great year." |

c.
Dave Tacon
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Building
Democracy where Dictators Ruled
Some of the most important work to be done in Africa is democracy
building.
History: in the 1960’s, many African countries declared independence
from the colonizer. Founding Fathers became Presidents for Life,
dictators who did not want to step down. By the 1990’s, the push
for democracy that swept Indonesia, Eastern Europe and the
former Soviet Union, and Latin America was also felt in Africa.
Electoral democracy--
the people deciding their leader-- was restored to much of
Africa. No easy task though.
Elections and buying votes needs to be monitored. In the past,
the opposition to the
dictator was killed off. Such intimidation is still present.
Come help consolidate democracy.
Pertinent skills needed:
political organizing
"get out the vote" community organizing
human rights activists
election monitoring educating
about rights
international relations
broadcast journalism
writing; media
social studies, civics & history teachers |
"Committed to their mission, "To harness humanity's talent to
solve humanity's challenges",
NGOabroad matched my political organizing skills to a cutting
edge democracy building program.
Volunteering enriched my life in totally unpredictable ways.
There is no organization like NGOabroad."
C. Fitchett
Lawyers & Legal interns
We have several programs focused on public interest law, land rights &
human rights.

c. Mark Spark |
Afrique d'Ouest
Nous avons les programmes en Afrique francophone.
Qualites necessites:
Savoire faire internacional et facilite en francais.
Droits de l'homme et des femmes.
Development
communautaire.
Alphabétisme.
Journalisme.
Formation professionnelle.
Eau et
sanitaires.
New! Working with women, youth & children.
Needed: Sewing, crafts, business, social work,
youth workers, accounting & bookkeeping, literacy. |

c.Mark Spark |
Many of our programs need volunteers with
practical skills; skills that can help get a job or generate income:
teaching sewing, weaving, crafts; carpentry or boat
building; bicycle, motorcycle or auto repair; farming/gardening;
bookkeeping.
Programs that we are in the process of being developed:
Marriage & Family Therapists, Youth & Family Counselors,
Psychologists, Social Workers
Most programs that work with street kids focus on improving the
lives of the youths.
This program focuses on strengthening the family, resolving the problems
that led to the youth leaving & reunification.
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Stopping the Abuse
of Women
on hold
"Today was like many others. A woman’s voice screamed out in terror
from
a mud hut in the village. She cried for help and we could hear
her wail uncontrollably while a man shouted obscenities and drug her
out by the hair."
The Director estimates that ~60% of the women in her town are
"beaten like donkeys". Alcohol abuse & poverty compound the problem.
Skills needed:
Social workers, psychologists & substance abuse
counselors
esp. with experience in Domestic Violence
Organizational & program managers
Writers, radio & those who can launch media campaign
Vocational trainers
Sports coaches & therapists, drama, dance & art therapists |
We Want Everyone's Voice Heard in this New World
in transition
Media is critical to democracy & equality.
This organization is also charting new ground: it promotes human
rights by increasing the range of voices heard through participatory
education, advocacy, lobbying and media production to improve the
status of women.
Skills needed:
Media monitors. Human rights activists.
Journalists to teach journalism courses. Writing skills.
Assistance researching & compiling
National Directory for Journalists.
Other programs: radio; educating about your rights; prison program.
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Voluntourism or Volunteer Vacations
Our Volunteer Vacations add a little bit of vacation to the volunteer
experience.
This may be the only time that you will be in the Himalayas or Andes,
Africa or Adriatic.
Bike the coast, trek, drum or being invited into a home. Let our guides
show you their world.
If your
skills, goals or desired destinations do not fit in these Volunteer
Programs, ask for a Roadmap of Resources.
We have far more choices than are stated
on the Volunteer pages.
How the Partner's Volunteer Program works:
Frugal: 1/4th the price of most programs.
See fees & how to apply.
Challenging: harness your skills to tackle real & important
challenges.
Real Deal for "Grown-Ups": other programs offer group
experiences & send a chaperone. We are for volunteers who want
the real deal: willing to do both the grunt work & the glamorous;
able to live humbly & make a real contribution.
Personalized: rather than one-size-fits-all approach,
we believe that if you are really going to make a contribution, we
must match your skills to where they are truly needed.
Flexible Schedule: You can go
at any time of year though school schedules may create some
constraints. Duration of your stay can be determined with the Host Director. Your schedule can usually be
accommodated.
Home Stays keep the cost down & deepen your understanding of daily life:
fetching water, no electricity. Or you can stay at a guesthouse.
Adventurous: We believe that you can immerse in other cultures
if you are well prepared: Travel & Cultural Consults
maximize health & safety.
Transportation: Some people wonder who pays airfare.
97% of the time: the volunteer.
Your host organization cannot afford to pay your airfare. 50%
of humanity earns <$2/day. |

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