[CALIBK12] Fwd: Librarians & Librarian Assistants: International Volunteering

[Connie Williams]

Hi CAlib folks who are still online! Here's something that crossed my  
email folder that might be of interest to some. It tells of some  
volunteering opportunities for library folk in places around the  
world.  Check it out!
Connie

Connie  Williams
President-elect 07/08
CSLA 2.0 Team

chwms at mac.com



From: Ann McLaughlin <info at ngoabroad.com>

Reply-To: Ann McLaughlin <info at ngoabroad.com>


You are invited! Thought that librarians & librarian assistants would  
be left out of international volunteering?
Nope! Now you are invited. One of our Africa partners is specifically  
asking for your help.
Opportunities also in Asia & the Americas through NGOabroad. http://www.ngoabroad.com/

NGOabroad is a unique service that provides frugal, customized  
international volunteer options
and helps people enter international humanitarian work. http://www.ngoabroad.com/


"NGOabroad is a fantastic service for anyone wanting to work  
internationally, be it paid or volunteer work. I was very impressed by  
Ann,  her honest optimism  (no sugarcoating but no dire warnings) and  
her curiosity about me and my goals are as well as her obvious  
dedication. Ann's insight into and knowledge of the world and non- 
profit organizations is invaluable. I now have a much clearer idea of  
what opportunities are out there for me and I have
a real understanding of where I can best contribute my skills."
                                                                                                                  Simone 
  Pfeiffer, Montreal



"Ann's Guide helped me land an IT job in Micronesia. ...Ann has  
demonstrated an uncanny ability to get to the (spiritual?) heart of  
the question: "What is it YOU want to DO?" and then relate the answer  
to an impressive list of real and practical opportunities. What more  
does one need?!"
                                                                                                              Sid 
  Merritt, UK


"Ann has gone to great lengths to understand what exactly I was  
looking for and more importantly what I needed. She has succeeded in  
giving me direction and I now honestly feel I know what I want to  
achieve and how to do it. I would highly recommend Ann's service to  
anyone looking to pursue a career in international development. She  
motivates and inspires."
                                                           Niamh  
Browne, International Development grad, Ireland



VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES BY SKILL

AFRICA...we get many requests for volunteer positions in Africa
Our opportunities in Africa:
--women's rights & building a girls' school
--democracy building & human rights
--community development & conflict resolution in post-conflict Africa
-- literacy & "post traumatic" journalism in refugee camps
--AIDS education;  .... initiating new program with sex workers
--building health promotion program in village
--health program in refugee camp
--livelihoods & business development
--the healing power of sports: refugees, child soldiers, youth
We are developing 3 new programs in French speaking Africa. We welcome  
your skills!

TEACHING
We have a wide range of volunteer teaching opportunities, Teach kids:
---who were trafficked & taken into prostitution
---in rural India                ......or at our school that is a  
model for development
---teach English in Nepal or Mongolia     ....they believe English is  
a ticket out of poverty.
       Nepal will provide room & food if you teach then entire school  
year.
---in Ghana           ...teach any subject or AIDS education or work  
with AIDS orphans
---teach in refugee camp                       (requires more  
international experience & savvy)
---teach arts, music, vocational skills to young men in Haiti
---teach elementary or IT skills in the High Andes
---teach in Central America                            (Sept-June  
school provides apt & 3/4's of your food)

BUSINESS
Our Business volunteer opportunities (we address many other  
professions):
--bolstering village livelihoods so families can send their girls to  
our girls school (Africa);
--business developer/entrepreneur to help develop a companion  
enterprise that sustains humanitarian non-profit
--marketing handicrafts to sustain school (India)
--micro-finance & fair trade (village India)
--teaching accounting & budgeting--several settings including refugee  
camp & working with women
--bolstering village livelihoods (2 sites in Andes)
--community development & poverty eradication (Nepal)
--teach entrepreneurial skills/alternative livelihoods for children &  
women trafficked & sold into prostitution
--grassroots business development in post-conflict Africa
Note: must be able to work as partners with in-country colleagues.
We welcome your skills! Applications accepted on rolling basis. No end  
date.

INTERNATIONAL STUDIES OPPORTUNITIES
Our volunteer opportunities most suited to IR (we address many other  
professions): women's rights & building a girls' school in Africa;  
community development in Nepal; gleaning the lessons from development  
success in India; democracy building & human rights--Africa; community  
development in post-conflict Africa; conflict resolution in post- 
conflict Africa; literacy & "post traumatic" journalism in refugee  
camps; AIDS education; trafficking; education, health & community  
development in Andes; human rights & AIDS in Central America. We are  
developing 3 new programs in French speaking Africa. We welcome your  
skills!

SOCIAL WORK
Social workers are needed internationally. Our volunteer programs are  
a good first step
into an international social work career. We need community organizers  
& program
developers in our cutting edge girls school in Africa; building job  
skills with refugees;
rebuilding post-conflict Africa; family, youth & community work in the  
Andes;
AIDS orphans & poverty in Central America; prostitution & trafficking.

JOURNALISM
In refugee camps & post-conflict Africa; Ghana; Cambodia; India;  
Nepal; Bolivia.
Where journalists were persecuted, restore the ability to tell what is  
going on.
Teach villages & refugees how to report on life experiences &  
community events.
Restore this important foundation of democracy.


IT/COMPUTERS
--teaching computer skills in refugee camp
--setting up computer lab at our grassroots girls' school in Africa
--advancing & teaching at nascent computer lab in community school in  
Andes
--teaching computer skills at our "model of development" school in India
--other teaching opportunities in Nepal, Mongolia, Ghana, Haiti;  
perhaps Mali in future


NURSING, PUBLIC HEALTH & MEDICAL
--India. We have 3 sites requesting health professionals or students.  
~general practice or prevention education.
   Several provide room & food in exchange for services.
--Nepal. Great place for Public Health experience! Need all health  
professionals & students.
--Cameroon. Seasoned doctors needed to assist AIDS doctor.
--Girl's School. Help design & implement village Public Health  
campaign--AIDS, malaria, nutrition.
--Andes.  Help design programs to prevent high infant mortality.  
Professionals or students (assignment will be geared
  to your skill.)  Also need seasoned nurse, nurse practitioner or  
doctor for "village medicine."
--Central America. Wide array of choices.
--Massage therapy: India-- after digging wells; Thailand--release  
knots of women & kids who have been trafficked into
  prostitution; AIDS orphans & people with AIDS; Andean miners & more.
--Clean water & sanitation are an important part of health. Andes,  
Girl's village, Nepal, Himalayas. India, Central
  America, Ghana, West Africa.

Interested? Please read the entire NGOabroad website.
Email info as requested on home page: embedded resume
& answered Questionnaire to info at NGOabroad.com
QUESTIONNAIRE IS ESSENTIAL.