Archive for March, 2008

The Elephant Mahout Project

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Eco Explorer Company - If you come to the project as a volunteer you will be able to see first hand how professionally our mahouts care and work with the elephants. Working at the camp, as opposed to working on the streets, is also safer and less stressful for the elephants. Revenue generated from visitors like yourselves substantially help to secure a better future…

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WLS Sanitation & Water System Construction Program in Thailand

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

WLS International Ltd - This is a great program to give back to the community. During our Sanitation & Water System Construction Volunteer Program in Chiang Rai you will be actively helping local hill tribe villages to build necessary water & sanitation facilities to improve the lives of the hilltribes considerably. Many families in remote villages do not have enough water in their village…

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Volunteer to Research Technology in Tanzania this Summer

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Operation Tech Start - We are ready to launch our pilot project setting up a computer lab for orphans and vulnerable children and researching the technologies used in the rural region of Tabora, Tanzania. And we need your help! Operation Tech Start is currently looking for volunteers with a background in technology, businesses management, or education - who thrive in a challenging environment….

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Local School English Teaching Project

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Eco Explorer Company - At Um-Phang, you will learn about the ethnic minority groups that inhabit the area as well as the social and political situation in Burma. You’ll learn about the history of the Karen people, about their customs and religion and about the role that tourism plays in their current lives. On a day-to-day base, you are expected to teach the local…

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The Discovery Experience Thailand Program

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Eco Explorer Company - Great experience combining living in one of the most beautiful parts of Thailand with a real difference to the lives of mahout and elephant, if you are looking for a different type of holiday. We support the wildlife volunteer program all around Thailand, which provides an income and a home to unemployed conservation and local Thai peple. You can come…

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Leading play sessions, sports and crafts activities in a holiday program for children

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

CADIP - Canadian Alliance for Development Initiatives and Projects - The Dortmund-Rahm Youth Office runs varied holiday programmes for children and young people aged 4 to 18 in its youth leisure centre and the affiliated adventure playground. The youth centre and the adventure playground (an area of some 12,000 square metres) offer a number of different activities, such as a Young People’s Caf? with billiard and football tables, internet point,…

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Training peer educators and sensitizing rural communities about HIV and AIDS

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

CADIP - Canadian Alliance for Development Initiatives and Projects - After the successful realisation of volunteer workcamps on the topic of STDs/HIV/AIDS in the last four years, the project is continued with the aim to raise awareness among the people in the villages through discussions, games and theatre plays on this theme. At the end of the workcamp, the volunteers and the young people of the village will perform a…

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Come volunteer at an orphange and play sport in India!

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Global GreenTrotters - Hello,I have set myself the target of finding 20 people to come with me to India this September to help out at an orphanage in India.Its an orphanage for homeless ‘untouchable’ children (basically lower than the working class in the Indian caste system). We will help out at the orphanage, teach the children and build a new wing so they…

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Tecnologico de Monterrey’s Volunteer Social Work Program in Monterrey, Mexico

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Tecnologico de Monterrey - Tecnologico de Monterrey’s Social Formation and Community Support Department offers you the opportunity to participate in Community Social Service where you can be a Voluntary Student and be part of programs that will develop your personal and professional competence, thus enabling you to serve and act as an agent of social transformation.You can participate on a project as a volunteer…

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Amazon Rainforest Conservation & Community Development

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Yomps - Volunteer in the Amazon rainforest on this wildlife conservation expedition based deep in the heart of the Ecuadorian rainforest. For either five or ten weeks, volunteers will live in a remote area to experience the rainforest’s rich biodiversity, support rainforest conservation, work towards community development and become a valued member of our wildlife research team!This rainforest conservation and community development…

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