Travel for Good: Volunteer Abroad
February 5, 2008Your generation isn’t nearly as shallow, apathetic, or clueless as the media makes you out to be. (Right?) Sure you want to have fun and spend some of your holiday sleeping in, dancing on pub tables, and extreme sporting, but you want a little more to show for your time away from home than a sunburn and a few blurry photos taken with your friend’s camera phone.
If you’re looking for an experience that will let you combine good times and good deeds, consider spending time as a volunteer in Costa Rica, Ecuador, Ghana, Nepal, Nicaragua, Peru, or Tanzania.
With the Volunteer Abroad program, you can work with kids in a local school, support conservation efforts, help rebuild homes and schools in regions that have been hit by floods or earthquakes, assist in a medical clinic, or pick out one of the many other worthwhile projects available.
“Volunteer Abroad is owned by the Canadian Federation of Students (a not-for-profit student organization founded in 1981 that currently unites more than 450, 000 colleges and students across Canada). As part of this student movement, Volunteer Abroad connects motivated people with not-for-profit organizations, communities and government agencies in need of assistance around the world.”
So get yourself connected. Projects last between 4 and 24 weeks, making it simple to combine a shorter project with a backpacking trip you’re planning, or make the volunteer experience the main part of your itinerary. Volunteer Abroad will help you plan your travel arrangements, including any day trips, weekend activities, or other destinations you want to add to your adventure.
Visit www.volunteerabroad.ca for more information.
If what you’re looking for your Gap Year is more than just travelling, why not choosing volunteering with Projects Abroad. We offer hundreds of placements to choose from, you could teach english to Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka, work in our Human Rights Project in Ghana, save turtles in Mexico or Costa Rica, live with a nomadic family in Mongolia or work in a hospital in Nepal.
We run projects in 24 different destinations around the world, where you will have 24/7 support from our local staff. We don’t have fixed dates for our programmes overseas, you can join at any time to any of our projects or destinations and for as long as you’d like.
If you would like to talk with an ex volunteer just let us know and we’ll put you in contact with someone from our Projects Abroad Alumni community. They will have the answer for all your questions.
All the information about of placements and destinations is in our website, also you can see photogalleries and videos of our volunteers!
http://www.projects-abroad.co.uk
Dear Sir / Madam,
The R.V.O is a registered youth organization in Ghana
which offer variety of volunteer projects / placement
to international students and volunteers in Ghana.
We are please requesting for partnership with your
agency , where in this partnership your organisation
may send volunteers to Ghana via R.V.O . and we would
offer them placement.
Please find below and attached more info about us and
our projects.
You can also visit our website at _www.robborg.org
ABOUT THE R.V.O ?
R.V.O is registered in Kumasi , Ghana in 2000 with the
following agencies in Ghana .
Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), social Welfare
of
Ghana, Registrar Generals Dept., National Youth
council of Ghana.
R.V.O is one of the fasters growing volunteer
organization and it is dedicated to service projects
across Ghana .
. R.V.O offers all types of placements in all the ten> regions of Ghana :
Volunteer in Ghana
Internship in Ghana
Teaching in Ghana
Language and cultural studies
Etc.
Between 1 and 2 volunteers participated in R.V.O
volunteer programmes every month and that is a good
omen of how unique our programmes are and how reliable
we are to volunteers.
We offer group and individual placement, cultural
exchange programmes etc to meet the needs of our
volunteers.
R.V.O is dedicated to provide our participants with a
lot of opportunities.
R.V.O MISSION :
R.V.O organises unique and affordable
volunteer
programs in all the ten regions of Ghana .
Our dedicated to service projects focuses on rural
community development, volunteering, educational
programmes /trips, Language and cultural studies.
Internships etc.
We offer students / volunteers a unique programmes for
their memorable experiences.
Below are highlights of few programmes offered by the
R.V.O.
R.V.O offer volunteers the opportunity to
live and work with vulnerable / orphan children in
Ghana .
- R.V.O also offer volunteers
the opportunity
to work with hundreds of local organizations actively
involved with HIV AIDS education.
- Other programmes offered by the R.V.O are:
Teaching in Ghana , Health project for medical
personal and pre-medical students, Soccer coaching in
Ghana , Language and cultural immersion, Drumming and
dancing lessons, educational trips, work camps in
rural communities etc.
- R.V.O designs an internship placement for
students on the fields below:
Radio, TV and news paper Journalism
Nurses and
Doctors
Women and Youth empowerment
Politics in Ghana
Law
HIV AIDS education
Drumming and Dancing (African studies)
Architectural
Soccer coaching
Language and Cultural Studies
Forest Conservation
Research
ETC
R.V.O ACHEIVEMENTS ( 2000-2005)
Since the inception of the R.V.O barely 6 years ago,
we have successfully organise / offer volunteer
abroad, intern abroad, language and cultural immersion
programmes for students / volunteers across the globe.
- In the first year of operation (2000), R.V.O
place only 15 volunteers. In 2001 and 2004, nearly 300
volunteers mostly students participated in our
volunteer and intern in Ghana programmes in
Ghana ,
making R.V.O the successful and reliable volunteer
organization in Ghana .
We are looking for a partnership with your
organisation whereby volunteers can be send to our
programs in Ghana whiles we also send some of our
dedicated volunteers to your programs abroad.
I would be very glad to hear from you
soon.
Benard Kesse
Program Manager
Box ry 655 railways-Kumasi-Ghana
Tel:233-24-4591378
If you still don’t have anything planed for summer break and are interested in volunteering in Costa Rica, Tropical Adventures is a non-profit organization which has programs all over the country. We have many projects available including teaching English, saving sea turtles, helping out indigenous communities and working in an animal refuge centre. For more information, please visit our website at http://www.tropicaladventures.com or send us an email at info@tropicaladventures.com.
Hello, How do I qualify to take part in this program? Besides what are the requirements …? I think I can help in teaching of English and one indigeneous Ghanaian language but what are the benefits?