International Volunteer

Help others to have a better life in any way it is always a grateful experience, volunteering is incredible experience not only helps others but help yourself too. Worldwide, thousands of people can tell about how this experience changed their existence, even so many of them devoted their entire life to NGOs projects.

Teaching within education projects in poor areas in your own country, taking part in medical help projects in Asia or building water infrastructures in South America you could find how your work it is really useful for people who really need it and this make a change how you see the world and how to live your life.

Africa was a student from University of Barcelona. She spent 3 months in 2009 in Rúkara (Ruanda) working in a nutritional project based in a health center. She taught to children under 6 years old personal and food hygiene to prevent illnesses. After this time, Africa says “I loved this experience, it has enriched me not only as a professional but as a person too”.

Eavanna Maloney is a qualified Nurse that had been working in the health country for five years. Then she joined a TB/HIV awareness project in Knysna, South Africa. She claims now that she learned much more in five weeks there than in five years before and she describes her volunteer travel as an eye-opening experience.

Amber Hirschy, from Indiana, spent eleven months in Camodia volunteering in a local micro-credits company to help poor people to obtain financial resources. Talking about her service , she says “Living and working in Cambodia challenged me to see the world in new ways and to truly acknowledge the hardship and suffering that many people around the world face every day. Those eleven months were some of the most formative months of my life. I will never be the same…thankfully.”

Volunteers experience themselves how to serve others ways to serve ourselves too.

You are an animal friend and in the search of an animals volunteer work. Maybe the following organisation can help you in helping animals.

Animal jobs direct is an organisation which offers different types of careers and opportunities. From animal charity careers to careers with dogs and cats, wildlife careers, veterinary careers, careers with horses, zoo & safari park careers, and many other types. Furthermore they give the latest information about animal care training options which can improve your job prospects.

It’s a fact that volunteering for an animal charity will increase your chances of getting a job in the sector. You will obtain practical animal care work experience and if you do a good job, volunteering with animals can even lead to a full time job at the place you do the volunteer work.

This volunteering includes working with endangered species, monitoring wild dolphins, nursing sick animals, working in an animal rescue centre, assisting with wildlife recovery and release, caring for horses and donkeys, transporting animals for re-homing abroad, returning stray animals to their colonies after neutering, … On the website of animal jobs direct, you can find different organisations in different countries all over the world that offer animal volunteering programs.

Today I want to talk about the different good Facebook pages that you can find about Volunteer Work Abroad. There are a couple of interesting ones which I want to share with you.

Volunteer Work is a wide page with many fans. It’s a good interactive place for people who are interested in volunteering abroad.

Volunteer Work Abroad: this is a Facebook page which gives more information about different organisations and a lot more.

Furthermore, you can find two twitter pages. One is called VolunteerWork and the other one is called volunteer_work and is updated very frequently.

Global Vision International (GVI) is a non-political organisation which provides over 2500 participants all over the world the opportunity to go on a volunteer program, international training courses and ethical internships for a year.

The organisation was founded in 1998, in order to support international charities, non-profits and governmental agencies by offering safe and responsible volunteering programs, internships, training and direct funding. Furthermore, GVI has alliances with over 150 project partners in over 40 countries so you can volunteer in the field of environmental research, conservation, education and community development.

The trips can last from one week to one year and you can execute volunteer work in Africa and Latin America by volunteering in different ways from marine conservation to wildlife research expeditions as a member of an international team. You also can combine two programs so you can volunteer and take part in adventure activities in different countries. Another significant offer is the family volunteering programs whit which you can volunteer overseas as a family. It is a new way of experiencing a rewarding holiday for everyone involved. Furthermore, you can see unique destinations, experience new cultures and see parts of the world of which your children will learn things that they will never learn in school.

Global Vision International is a good and safe way to spend your volunteer work abroad. The organisation has a professional group of staff people who know what they are doing.

They say if you want to see the world in another perspective- then go and volunteer abroad. There are so many who had embarked on this kind of travel in some way have changed their own volunteer work definition. Try to find out the top popular volunteer abroad destinations for the year 2010.
•    Peru has benefits of volunteer work and the industry has also accommodated the demand. Thus, as of the writing of this article there over 300 volunteer opportunities in Peru like dealing with street children, child care volunteer, health care and teaching English.
•    Kenya has also yielded more than 200 volunteer opportunities like volunteer programs in community development and wildlife research. Medical health and counseling are also available.
•    Costa Rica volunteer opportunities includes engaging in turtle conservation, teaching English, construction of schools and homes and health care.
•    Mexico has yielded more than 169 volunteer programs which includes scuba diving and the chance to get the PADI dive qualification and o course a once in lifetime chance of gazing at the wonderful underwater world of the oceans of Mexico.
•    Nepal has 200 opportunities for the volunteers who would like take in a unique and rich culture and history. Never forget to buy the rug made by the locals for it’s a precious gift and souvenir for the artistry and designs are rare and only in Nepal.
•    Chile has some life changing chances for volunteers who would like to teach English and get involve with children. And a chance to see Chile’s wonderful tourist attractions.
•    Philippines has that would like to learn and know the unique Filipino culture. Unique for one place could never define the whole Philippines. So, one culture varies in every place.
•    India has a variety of volunteer opportunities like health work, women empowerment and orphanage work. India has also become the center of attraction and limelight when the Slumdog Millionaire Movie hit the silver screen and catches the Hollywood attentions.

Volunteering abroad is selling like a hot pancake in the US and Europe. In big universities they would call it a “gap year”. Volunteering abroad is like paying to work for free. Students and even adults take time off from their daily busy day to stay in a remote area somewhere to take time to help other people. As parents and educators acknowledge the transcendental effect of volunteering abroad to their children they support the idea of spending, sending their kids abroad to volunteer.

There so many organizations and agencies that sends volunteers to different parts of the world. Like Travel to Teach, an international volunteering travel organization and the IVP or International Volunteer Program, a non-profit international organization that encourages volunteerism in the Latin America, United States and Europe.

Articles have been written by so many volunteers to aware the oncoming volunteers of the reality of the situation. That volunteering abroad is not a holiday spent in sun-kissed beaches and air-conditioned villas but indeed a total sacrifice from everything that you are used to. From the accommodation to food, the environment to the people…everything.

Yet, we always wonder what the volunteers will do in these places like Africa, Philippines or Vietnam. It depends on what you can offer the organization. If you are good with languages or the English language then you can volunteer to teach children living in the middle of the mountain in the Philippines or Africa perhaps. You will then know that children will have to walk for two or three hours to go to you and learn. Or perhaps help build houses and communities destroyed by war. Or teach a certain community to build irrigation for the rice plants. Or simply packed food for the hungry community in the middle of Africa or Afghanistan. The choices are limitless…you just need to havea pair of hands, a budget and a big heart to be able to help others.

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