Volunteer Vacation Resource: Bootsnall.com

By Kate | September 30th, 2007 | Add a Comment »

If helping out at community gardens in Cuba, teaching English in Ghana, or assisting with domestic animal rescue in South Africa is your thing, look no further than Bootsnall.com. ... [Read this entry]

Change The Truth Fund Update

By Kate | July 20th, 2007 | Add a Comment »

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]

El Shadai Children’s Home In Uganda

By Kate | June 15th, 2007 | Add a Comment »

El Shadai Children’s Home in Uganda, 2 hours east of Kampala, provides not only a place to live for 26 orphans, but a family atmosphere. It is a community-based... [Read this entry]

True Travellers Society: Volunteer Resource

By Kate | June 6th, 2007 | Add a Comment »

True Travellers’ Society is a Canadian non-profit organization dedicated to providing information that will help independent travellers get the most out of their experiences abroad. The aim is to... [Read this entry]

Around The Web On Volunteering: May 31

By Kate | May 31st, 2007 | Add a Comment »

A new edition of The Midnight Special is out and its volunteer founder is hoping to find additional free-world people to subscribe to this literary compilation of voices rarely heard:... [Read this entry]

Two Uganda Events: Change The Truth Fund And Invisible Children

By Kate | April 30th, 2007 | Add a Comment »

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]

Food Aid Proposal In The International Herald Tribune

By Kate | April 22nd, 2007 | Add a Comment »

While most of us realize that food aid is not as simple as mom sending that unfinished pork chop to Ethiopia, this article in the International Herald Tribune revealed that... [Read this entry]

Around The Web On Volunteering: April 14

By Kate | April 14th, 2007 | Add a Comment »

If you’re a volunteer, get ready to celebrate yourself: volunteer week is approaching in the US.
Some sad volunteer news: a Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines is missing.

Green Day’s... [Read this entry]

Volunteer Placement Organization: Visions In Action (VIA)

By Kate | March 14th, 2007 | Add a Comment »

Visions In Action manages relief and development programs in Uganda and Liberia and also places volunteers in Mexico, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda for periods of six to twelve months.... [Read this entry]

Blogs You Should Know About: Gloria In Africa

By Kate | March 12th, 2007 | Add a Comment »

Photo of kids at
orphanage, by Gloria

Gloria is a photographer from the US who attended a two-and-a-half week workshop in Uganda; you can read about a number of moving experiences... [Read this entry]