Wildlife Direct Volunteer Staff And Park Rangers Urgently Need Help To Protect Endangered Gorillas

By Kate | July 29th, 2007 |

Wildlife Direct provides an innovative response to critical conservation issues in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The non-profit organization facilitates the donation of funds directly to those working... [Read this entry]

Volunteers You Should Know About

By Kate | July 29th, 2007 |

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Some volunteers search for the right opportunity – others see a need and respond to it. Conor Grennan is a stellar example of the latter; he started out as... [Read this entry]

Experience A Refugee Camp At Home, Via MSF

By Kate | July 28th, 2007 |

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Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) is organizing a refugee camp simulation so those who haven’t had to take shelter at a real one can get some sense of what... [Read this entry]

Support The Expansion Of Youth Exchange Programs

By Kate | July 27th, 2007 |

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AFS is an organization that has been organizing and promoting student exchange (not to mention volunteering, community service and hosting opportunities) for sixty years now. It is international in... [Read this entry]

Common Ground Health Clinic In New Orleans

By Kate | July 24th, 2007 |

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The Common Ground Community Health Clinic in New Orleans opened a few weeks after Hurricane Katrina hit and today, the mainly volunteer staff provide free care to anyone who needs... [Read this entry]

Photo Exhibition On Human Rights Defenders For PBI 25th Anniversary

By Kate | July 23rd, 2007 |

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Peace Brigades International recruits international volunteers who, when invited, accompany human rights workers in Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Nepal and Indonesia and promote non-violent transformation of conflicts. The volunteers’ presence... [Read this entry]

Has The Media Influenced Your Volunteer Destination?

By Kate | July 21st, 2007 |

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Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) recently launched a campaign to recruit volunteers for its programs in five countries – Eritrea, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nigeria and Mongolia – which may not be... [Read this entry]

Change The Truth Fund Update

By Kate | July 20th, 2007 |

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The Change the Truth Fund, which connects donors from the US with St. Mary Keven’s orphanage in Uganda, has been busy.
Change The Truth founder Gloria, a photographer who became... [Read this entry]

Does Aid Lead To Economic Growth? Former IMF Economists Say No

By Kate | July 20th, 2007 |

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I was interested to find an article entitled “Economists see aid to poor nations as ineffective”, which reports the findings of two former IMF economists.
I do think this is... [Read this entry]

Around The Web On Volunteering: July 14

By Kate | July 14th, 2007 |

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The Volunteer Logue recently reported about a study on which regions of the US volunteer more….see what Forbes has to say about it, and don’t forget Washington DC.
One Canadian... [Read this entry]

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