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Year Out Student Guidelines

This British site offers a checklist for young people to ask of "year-out" volunteer agencies and their programmes to ensure that the experience is beneficial both to volunteers and to the people they work with.

http://www.yearoutgroup.org/checklist-students.htm

(Added: Mon Jan 29 2007   Hits: 114)

The 'cult-like' mystery charity looking to recruit

A mysterious "cult-like" charity led by a millionaire fugitive is scouting in Wellington for volunteers to work in Africa. Posters around the city are appealing for Kiwis to study through the Humana People to People programme to become "development instructors" working with street kids and HIV/AIDS sufferers in Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia and Botswana. (Patrick Crewdson, Dominion Post, Stuff, 9 December 2006)

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/Cult-like%20mystery%20charity%20looking%20to%20recruit.pdf

(Added: Fri Dec 15 2006   Modified: Thu May 24 2007   Hits: 496)

Sojourners to another country: The psychological roller-coaster of cultural transitions

Development workers or volunteers, like some business people or students, are temporary visitors to another country who return to their home country. This chapter explores the psychological aspects of the cultural transition cycle experienced by the sojourner. The concepts of enculturation and cultural identity are introduced followed by a discussion of a transition model which focuses on awareness, adjustment, adaptation, self-concept change, cultural identity response and repatriation. Ideas for minimizing repatriation distress are suggested. (Nan M. Sussman, Online Readings in Psychology and Culture, 2002)

http://www.ac.wwu.edu/%7Eculture/sussman.htm

(Added: Thu Dec 14 2006   Hits: 260)

Why Not Practice What We Preach?

This article argue that unpaid internships go against all of the values that international development NGOs preach. In addition, because those without a private income cannot afford to live without a wage, the internship system is biased towards the upper middle classes, helping to exclude many other sections of society from working in the field of development and human rights. (Adam Davies and Tom Allen, Bond, August 2006)

http://www.bond.org.uk/networker/2006/aug06/internships.htm

(Added: Wed Oct 18 2006   Modified: Thu Feb 08 2007   Hits: 280)

Ethical Volunteering

This site offers advice & information for people who are interested in international volunteering and want to make sure that what they do is of value to themselves and the people they work with. While volunteers intentions are nearly always good, this does not mean that all volunteer prorgammes or indeed volunteers, are good. Indeed there are some programmes, and some volunteers out there that can be said to do more harm than good. This site offers some ideas to help you work out how you can be a valuable international volunteer and how to choose a valuable volunteering placement.

http://www.ethicalvolunteering.org/

(Added: Wed Aug 30 2006   Hits: 289)

Gap Years Create 'New Colonialists'

GAP year volunteers are in danger of becoming the new colonialists, indulging in a type of "charity tourism" that can do more harm than good, according to a leading charity. It is seen as a chance to broaden horizons, learn about other cultures and make a positive contribution to the world. But organising volunteering programmes is now big business and too often the schemes are designed with the enjoyment of the volunteers in mind. And some argue that too little concern is shown for the communities they are supposed to be helping. (The Times, August 15, 2006)

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3223-2313014,00.html

(Added: Mon Aug 28 2006   Hits: 308)

Top Tips and Resources for Gaining Overseas Experience

This article outlines some of the challenges volunteering involves and ways to mitigate these, including a warning to be careful about what kind of development your work promotes, and a recomendation to go with the attitude of a student and not a teacher. (Zahara Heckscher, OneWorld, June 2006)

http://oneworldus.civiblog.org/blog/WorldViews/TravelDiaries/_archives/2006/6/12/2028132.html

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Volunteerism and Development [PDF 274 KB]

Launched by the United Nations on International Volunteer Day, 5 December 2003, this publication introduces the reader to an analysis of successful volunteer interventions, lessons learned and good practices with examples drawn from evaluatory evidence in a variety of development contexts.

http://www.undp.org/eo/documents/essentials/volunteerism.pdf

(Added: Thu Apr 06 2006   Modified: Mon Jan 28 2008   Hits: 242)

WorldVolunteerWeb.org

The WorldVolunteerWeb.org supports the volunteer community by providing a global one-stop-shop for information, resources, and organizations linked to volunteerism. It aims to represent the diversity of volunteerism in all of its cultural forms, bringing global ideals to local voluntary actions. It mobilizes individuals, organizations and networks to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), a set of time-bound targets to combat poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women. WorldVolunteerWeb.org is unique in that it offers a place where the global volunteering community can come together to share resources and coordinate activities on-line to make a real impact at all levels. This is where the Internet's real value for volunteerism lies as it provides a cost-effective way to connect individuals, groups, organizations and initiatives move towards the achievement of common goals.

http://www.worldvolunteerweb.org/

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OneWorld Volunteering

Volunteer listings from OneWorld. Volunteering generates triple bottom line results for the not-for-profit sector. The organisation values your resource, people and the planet benefit from your efforts, and you gain valuable experience and fulfilment.

http://www.oneworld.net/job/search/?Volunteer=1&Search=Search&RestrictPackage=0

(Added: Fri Aug 29 2003   Modified: Mon Jan 29 2007   Hits: 406)

Idealist: Action Without Borders  pop

Action Without Borders is a global coalition of individuals and organizations working to build a world where all people can live free, dignified and productive lives. Idealist.org is a project of Action Without Borders where you can find: * Over 58,000 nonprofit and community organizations in 165 countries, which you can search or browse by name, location, or mission. If your organization is not yet listed here, you can add it now (it's free). * Thousands of volunteer opportunities in your community and around the world, and a list of organizations that can help you volunteer abroad. * Nonprofit Career Center, with hundreds of job and internship listings.

http://www.idealist.org/

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United Nations Volunteers  pop

The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme is the UN organization that supports human development globally by promoting volunteerism and by mobilizing volunteers. It is administered by UNDP and operates amidst growing recognition that volunteerism makes important contributions, economically and socially, to more cohesive societies by building trust and reciprocity among citizens. Every year some 5,000 UN Volunteers from more than 150 different nationalities actively support the programmes of the United Nations itself and almost all UN funds, programmes and specialized agencies.

http://www.unv.org/

(Added: Fri May 14 1999   Modified: Mon Jan 29 2007   Hits: 1616)

Volunteer Service Abroad (VSA)

VSA recruits skilled New Zealanders to work overseas. VSA is an international development agency, founded in 1962, based in Wellington, New Zealand. VSA is a not-for-profit, non-government, non-religious organisation.

http://www.vsa.org.nz

(Added: Fri Apr 16 1999   Modified: Mon Jan 29 2007   Hits: 693)

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