International Volunteer

We give you some tips about how you can help Haiti’s Earthquake Victims:

•    Submit donations to international organizations:

International Red Cross http://www.ifrc.org/
Unicef http://www.unicef.org/
World Relief http://worldrelief.org/
Yéle Haiti http://www.yele.org/
International Rescue Committee http://www.theirc.org/

•    If you can’t give money, you can donate supplies. Find collection centers on your city, to provide food, water, medicine and clothes.

•    Check with local churches and many organizations that will be (or already are) doing humanitarian missions in Haiti, see how you can help.

Start it now!

Everyday is a new day there will be an expected updates about news to hear in TVs, internet and radio.  Yet, it seems that the continuous news about the recession worldwide had never been renewed.  Various horrible news are emerging, adding great problems worldwide. And it seems that everyday there are millions of employees who were now unemployed.  Despite of it, there are great ways how to avoid boredom after being discarded from your previous work, and that is through volunteering.

There are different kinds of volunteering.  You can volunteer as a traffic enforcer, lean a hand to those people who were less fortunate or taking the international volunteer programs abroad to help those people in need.  Talking about volunteering, it is you who will decide about it and you were not force to get involved with the program.  But the advantages of getting involve in the volunteer program if you presently don’t have a job since it will ease the boredom that you feel.  If you volunteer you will not only helping others to move on but you were also helping yourself of becoming more confident, determine and most importantly it would help develop well your personality.

Volunteering do not only focusing on one particular country alone, if you think there were other countries which needs more your help compare to your own country you can volunteer work abroad.  There are various countries nowadays which need volunteers.  You can volunteer as an English teacher in the rural area of the certain countries, or you can volunteer in the orphanages it depends what you think suits your skills and abilities. If you volunteer, at the end you will realize how self fulfilling it is despite the hardship and circumstances you had been during those memorable times.  And you will realize how fortunate you are because you were one of those volunteers helping others rather than one of those people who need a volunteer.

Even the weakening of the world economy can not dampen the spirit of volunteerism. In the year of the oxen, the fire for international volunteer will be shining bright and dazzling.

With the advent of new technology and social networks, volunteers do not need to go out of their country to help other people. There are groups that you can search on the internet that can look for people you can help. There are even people who will love to learn from you in this group. An application in facebook called yoville, can make you interact with other people. It is comparable to a ‘real’ community in which you got to work and earn your keep for the things that you need. And you can converse with these people if you want. There are Spanish students who would like to be taught the English language in yoville community. Volunteerism can be in different modes. It is up to you how you do it and how you share.

Some of you deemed it necessary to be physically in the location when you help; so there are international volunteer programs that would cater to your needs. The dynamic characteristic of these programs is necessary to fit in with the changing world.

If Europe was flocked with hundreds of volunteers for the last few years; International volunteer programs for this year will be made towards the countries that have been close to tourist scrutiny for years.

Korea though controlling the tourist that enters the country, has been one of the interesting places that travelers would hope to visit for this year. China is another wonderful place to saunter to for wonderful finds. Some educators see Chinese language as the language for the millennium. There are so many high hopes for the Chinese tourism and economy for the oncoming years.

There are modifications for some for the international programs; however, Spain would still top the most visited place for sea combers and sea lovers.