This page outlines where your skills are needed in NGOabroad Volunteer Programs.
If your skills, goals or desired destinations do not fit here, ask for a personalized Roadmap of Resources.
 

Human Services.                Central America. Super skilled with children? Coach staff that work with children orphaned by abuse & AIDS. "Download" your group & residential skills, child development & behavioral management skills.  Grassroots girls school in Africa. Help transform thinking about what women & girls can do. Need community organizers, grant writers, women's advocates... tutors, AIDS & health educators. Refugee Camps in Africa. Help build livelihoods; active therapies to help with traumas: art therapists & graphic artists; drama/storytellers; sports; work with youth & families. Need French & English speakers. Post-Conflict West Africa is rebuilding after civil war. Need community organizers, program management, conflict resolution. Work with youth or women. Help launch new initiative with sex workers; AIDS & trauma. Dominican Republic. Work with women & children who have fled Haiti. Great experience in human rights, poverty & livelihoods. Andes. Vocational & primary education; women’s organizers; DV. Trafficking. Social workers request this. What we offer reflects that at a global level, we are "just starting to get our act together."

Teaching Literacy & Practical Skills.  Youth & Kids. Our school in Honduras is for the children of single mothers.  They will provide apartment & most of your food if you teach English. Grassroots Girl's School in Africa. The UN & World Bank believe Africa's ticket out of poverty is educating the girls who never had the chance. Teach girls & village: literacy, academics, catering, carpentry,  wood working, simple mechanical repairs, welding, sewing, crafts, agriculture, animal husbandry, business, health education & sports. Post-Conflict Africa believes that education is critical to preventing conflict. Same educational & practical skills needed as above. Nepal believes that learning English is a ticket out of poverty.   French West Africa. Vocational Education! Haiti. Teach youth carpentry, music or sports. Other  places to teach literacy or practical skills or work with kids... youth...or in sports: Refugee Camps. Ghana. Thailand. Mongolia. India. Himalayas. Bolivia. Peru. Dominican Republic.

Micro-finance groups lift millions out of poverty.

Business & Income Generation  Business developer or entrepreneur: help develop an enterprise that sustains a non-profit. India. Link micro-finance crafts to Fair Trade markets & market handicrafts to sustain school. Girls School. Help bolster family incomes so family can send girls to school. Teach sewing, crafts, wood working, mechanics or agriculture. Post-Conflict Africa. Teach entrepreneurial or income generating skills, or business development. Women & youth trafficked & sold into prostitution. Teach alternative income generation. Nepal. community development & poverty eradication. Central America. Teach livelihoods & grassroots business development to care-takers of AIDS orphans, street kids & campesinos. Andes. Generación de Ingresos. Strengthen livelihoods & income generation. Many places. Teach accounting & budgeting.

Journalism, Human Rights & Democracy Building  Refugee Camps & Post-Conflict Africa. Human rights violations are usually to shut people up. Fear & silence->>tyranny. Freedom of expression->>democracy. Where journalists were persecuted, restore the ability to tell what is going on. Teach villages & refugees how to report on life experiences & community events. Restore this important foundation of democracy. Democracy Building, Africa. Post-election violence in Kenya reveals how fragile democracy can be. Needed: political organizers, election & corruption monitors, human rights & women's advocates; radio & media; law students for land rights. Human Rights, Haitian Refugees.                     Journalism, Mongolia. Journalsim, Bolivia.                                          Journalism, Ghana.              Writing program, India.

both photos:     c. David Zimmerly

Public Health, Medical & Nursing There are far more opportunities for health skills than listed here. Please email us your Questionnaire & resume and then we can discuss what fits for you. India. We have 3 sites requesting nurse, nurse practitioner, dentist, doctor, medical student, or nursing student for ~general practice or prevention education. Nepal. Public Health. Doctors, nurses, dentists, nutritionists. Great for  pros & students. Cameroon. Seasoned doctors needed to assist AIDS doctor.

Girl's School. Help design & implement village Public Health campaign--AIDS, malaria, nutrition. Great for seasoned professionals or nursing, Public Health or medical students. Andes.  Help design programs to prevent high infant mortality. Need: Nurses, nurse practitioners, doctors, mother-child specialists; Public Health. Sanitation. Nutrition. Central America. Wide array of choices. Massage therapy: India-- after digging wells; Thailand--release knots of women & kids who have been trafficked into prostitution; AIDS orphans & people with AIDS; Andean miners & more.

Clean water & sanitation are an important part of health.
Andes, Girl's village, Nepal, Himalayas. India, Central America, Ghana, West Africa.

Solar electricity is needed by 1/3 of humanity. But our sites in Himalayas, Nepal, Mongolia & Andes are well suited.



There are many skills needed that are not outlined on this page.
If you want to contribute but a suitable opportunity is not listed here, ask Ann.
    


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