Experience A Refugee Camp At Home, Via MSF

By Kate | July 28th, 2007 |

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]

Citizenship And ESL Volunteers

By Kate | July 26th, 2007 |

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If you’re craving some connection to other cultures but can’t leave home, consider volunteering with a local organization that provides ESL or citizenship classes to immigrants and/or refugees. Working... [Read this entry]

World Refugee Day And Volunteering With Refugees

By Kate | June 23rd, 2007 |

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June 20 is World Refugee Day and thanks to an email sent out by the International Refugee Committee, I can link to the UNHCR (UN High Commissioner on Refugees) special... [Read this entry]

Two Uganda Events: Change The Truth Fund And Invisible Children

By Kate | April 30th, 2007 |

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Invisible Children’s Displace Me event was held this weekend. The goal was to raise awareness generally about the war in Uganda, and more specifically about the plight of children... [Read this entry]

Around The Web On Volunteering: March 17

By Kate | March 17th, 2007 |

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It’s spring break time, and as some college kids chill out on the beach, others have decided to participate in “alternative spring break”: some Wisconsin kids stay at a migrant... [Read this entry]

Volunteer Tibet

By Kate | March 14th, 2007 |

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Volunteer Tibet contains a compilation of different volunteer opportunities in or around Dharamsala, India, generally connected to the large Tibetan population in the area.
There is a volunteer page providing... [Read this entry]

Invisible Children

By Kate | February 27th, 2007 |

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Three young Americans – one of them turning 20 during the trip – traveled in Uganda in 2003. They made and have promoted the documentary entitled Invisible Children to... [Read this entry]

The International Rescue Committee (IRC)

By Kate | February 21st, 2007 |

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The International Rescue Committee (IRC) was founded in 1933 and today is a global network of people and organizations who serve “refugees and communities victimized by oppression or violent conflict... [Read this entry]

Burma Issues

By Kate | February 20th, 2007 |

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The aim of Burma Issues/The Peace Way Foundation, a non-profit organization in Thailand, is “to participate in building up a people’s movement which is capable of carrying out the long... [Read this entry]

Tibetan English: My Volunteer Experience

By Kate | February 5th, 2007 |

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As an English teacher, and a traveler looking for some useful way to spend some time in Dharamsala, India, volunteering my time to give a local Tibetan resident the chance... [Read this entry]

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