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I Want to Volunteer
Volunteering Abroad
...Useful contacts Volunteering Ireland's remit is limited to the Republic of Ireland. However, the following contacts may be helpful if you are looking for international volunteering opportunities. This is by no means a comprehensive listing, as there are many organisations which place volunteers overseas, as well as handbooks and other resources which give guidance on international voluntary work, but it should provide a useful starting point. Please contact organisations directly. 
Church Missionary Society Ireland
CMSI runs the Mission Experience Team Abroad (META) programme (4 weeks) and the Short Term Experience Placements (STEP) programme (3 weeks to 12 months). There are no age limits, but a Christian commitment is essential.
Church Missionary Society Ireland
Overseas House
3 Belgrave Road
Rathmines
Dublin 6
tel: 01 - 497 0931
fax: 01 - 497 0939
E-mail: dublinoffice@cmsireland.org
Web: http://www.cmsireland.org
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Concern Worldwide
Concern recruits volunteers aged over 21 and (usually) holding a relevant third level qualification. Nurses, midwives, environmental health officers, natural resource specialists, social and community workers, administrators, accountants, mechanics, engineers, nutritionists and teachers work, usually on a long term basis, in less developed countries.
Concern Worldwide
52-55 Camden Street
Dublin 2
tel: 01 - 475 4162
fax: 01 - 475 7362
E-mail: info@concern.ie
Web: http://www.concern.ie
EIL Intercultural Learning
EIL Intercultural Learning is a Cork based not-for-profit intercultural organisation with many years of experience in placing Irish people overseas in a wide range of volunteer, internship and intercultural programmes. EIL is a member of the National Youth Council of Ireland and a UN-designated "Peace Messenger" organisation.
EIL Ireland
1 Empress Place
Summerhill North
Cork
Ireland
Tel: +353 (0) 21 455 1535
Lo Call: 1 850 29 29 39
Fax: +353 (0) 21 455 1587
Email: anton@eilireland.org
Website: http://www.volunteerabroad.ie
Website: http://www.eilireland.org
GOAL
GOAL recruits qualified volunteer doctors, nurses, midwives, accountants, administrators, engineers and mechanics to work in Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe. Applicants must be at least 21 and have 2 years work experience. The minimum commitment is usually 1 year.
GOAL
PO Box 19
Dun Laoghaire
Co. Dublin
tel: 01 -280 9779
fax: 01 - 280 9215
E-mail: info@goal.ie
Web: http://www.goal.ie
Habitat for Humanity International
Habitat for Humanity International is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry, seeking to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.
Do you want to be a part of the solution to the poverty housing crisis?
Habitat for humanity is looking for people volunteering in one of their offices around the world. The duration range from 6-12 months to work on specific projects or programs, helping in this way to build capacity in many areas of the host office, such as administration, communications, finance, programs, resource development and volunteer coordination. Occasionally one can find specialized construction assignments (site assistants, foremen, etc.) as well.
Erika Karman
Capacity Development Specialist
Habitat for Humanity International, ECA
Tel: +421.9110.45820
Email: ekarman@habitat.org
Web: http://www.habitateurope.org
Interculture
Interculture runs Community Service Programmes in Latin America and Africa. These are 4 - 6 month programmes involving a voluntary work placement with a local community development project. Possible placements include working with street children, health, environmental and women's projects. Volunteers raise funds towards the cost of the programme, with advice from Interculture.
Interculture
10a Lower Camden Street
Dublin 2
tel: 01 - 478 2046
fax: 01 - 478 0614
E-mail: info-ireland@afs.org
Web: http://www.afs.org
International Service Ireland
International Service Ireland’s mission is to create innovative links between Irish society and global partners through promoting best practice and mutual learning in order to support the achieving of the Millennium Development Goals. ISI operates within the framework of the International Service global strategy that targets three groups: disabled people, children & adolescents, and women. Thematic priorities are: Human Rights, Sustainable Livelihoods and Sexual and Reproductive Health Awareness.
ISI, Carmichael Centre for Voluntary Groups
Carmichael House,
North Brunswick Street, Dublin 7
Tel: (086) 173 2347
email: internationalserviceireland@eircom.net
web: www.internationalservice.org.uk
i-to-i
i-to-i is an adventure travel company specialising in volunteer placements overseas and in TEFL training. They aim to provide safe, worthwhile volunteer placements in Africa, Asia, South America, Australia and Europe. Placements range from 2 weeks to 6 months and are open to people aged 17 years and over. There is a cost involved to cover accommodation, training, support, airport transfers, and other pre-travel preparation. Volunteers cover their own travel costs. i-to-i help to minimise the strain of spiralling costs by giving fundraising advice and support.
i-to-i
Volunteer Travel and TEFL Courses
Exploration House
32 Grattan Square
Dungarvan
Co Waterford
tel: 058 40050
fax: 058 40059
E-mail: ireland@i-to-i.com
Web: http://www.i-to-i.com
Lattitude Global Volunteering, formerly GAP Activity Projects, is an international youth development charity founded in 1972, which provides opportunities for young people worldwide to volunteer in another country than their own. We provide opportunities for young people from Ireland to volunteer in more than 15 countries including China, Ecuador, Ghana, Vanuatu and Vietnam and bring young people to Ireland from a variety of countries including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico and New Zealand. Young volunteers work alongside staff in a variety of charitable organizations including schools, orphanages, outdoor activity centres, care homes, community centres and hospitals.
If you want an overseas volunteering challenge contact:
Dominique Peart
Project Manager Ireland
Lattitude Global Volunteering
Tel: 00 353 1 6288332
Email: gap.dominique@icebroadband.com
Web: http://www.lattitude.ie
Lattitude volunteers in action.
Léargas - The Exchange Bureau
Léargas coordinates, amongst other things, the Irish arm of the European Voluntary Service programme; an intercultural learning experience for people aged 18-25 who volunteer in local projects of EU member states, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and central/eastern Europe for 3 weeks to 1 year.
Léargas - The Exchange Bureau
189 - 193 Parnell Street
Dublin 1
tel: 01 - 873 1411
fax: 01 - 873 1316
E-mail: youth@leargas.ie
Web: http://www.leargas.ie/youth
Link Community Development
Link Community Development (LCD) is an international education-focused development organisation working in Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, South Africa and Uganda towards improving education for children, giving them the chance to escape the poverty into which they have been born. Our programmes in Ireland work hand in hand with the school improvement programmes run by the LCD teams in Africa.
Teachers need to join the Global Teachers Programme which is centred around a five-week placement in a school in Uganda.
This is your opportunity to:
* Contribute to the development of an African school
* Live in a rural community and learn about the way of life, culture
and development challenges
* Bring a global dimension to your own school
* Develop new professional skills
* Learn new ideas to energise your approach to teaching
* Do something completely different next summer!
The fee for the Global Teachers Programme costs only €1800 and includes
* Full preparation including two pre-placement training weekends in
April and June covering professional role, context, health and
safety, etc
* International flights, travel insurance, all local travel,
accommodation and food in Uganda
* In-country induction and full placement support
* Follow-up support on return to Ireland including a training
weekend in September and graduation in June
For more information text ‘GTP’, your name and contact details to 087 9697623, phone 00353 (0)1 2841414 or contact us at info@lcd.ie. Closing date for applications is 31st January 2009. Please phone re late submissions.
Link Community Development,
23 Crofton Road,
Dun Laoghaire,
Co. Dublin.
Website: www.lcd.ie
Email: info@lcd.ie
Phone: 01 2841414
Fax: 01 2303599
VEEP Nepal
INFO Nepal is a not-for-profit NGO working with children and young people in urban and rural Nepal. Volunteer opportunities include teaching English, working within Orphanages and raising awareness of basic health & environmental issues. Volunteers must cover the costs of flights and programme expenses. Programmes run from two weeks to five months. Training and support is provided.
INFO Nepal
Naresh Raj Ghimire "Asim"
Director /Chairman
Thamel
Kathmandu
Nepal
web site: New window
email: info@infonepal.org
or
Owen Kierans
Overseas co-ordinator
10 The Avenue
Martello Village
Drogheda
County Louth
tel: (087) 974 6071
Outreach Moldova
Outreach Moldova work for and with severely disabled, orphaned and abandoned children in the Republic of Moldova. Volunteers are invited to join one of the medical, building or care programmes. Volunteers are responsible for raising sponsorship to cover all their costs. [2 week stay is approx 1,700 euro].
Outreach Moldova
PO Box 8039
Dun Laoghaire
Co Dublin
tel/fax: 01-275 1842
E-mail: moldova@ireland.com
Web: http://www.outreachmoldova.org
Viatores Christi: Travellers for Christ
Viatores Christi sends lay missionaries (aged 21+) overseas after a part time training course lasting about one year. Experience, professional skills and a Christian commitment are required.
Viatores Christi: Travellers for Christ
38/39 Upper Gardiner Street
Dublin 1
tel: 01 - 874 9346/872 8027
fax: 01 - 874 5731
E-mail: viatoreschristi@eircom.net
Web: http://www.viatoreschristi.com
Voluntary Service International
VSI coordinates short-term international work camps, teenage work camps, an Asia/Africa/Latin America exchange programme and various other medium to long-term volunteering projects abroad.
Voluntary Service International
30 Mountjoy Square
Dublin 1
tel: 01 - 855 1011
fax: 01 - 855 1012
E-mail: info@vsi.ie
Web: http://www.vsi.ie
VSO Ireland
VSO Ireland sends experienced professionals to volunteer in over 34 of the world's poorest countries. Volunteers work alongside local colleagues to make a real difference. Volunteers spend at least one year overseas.
VSO Ireland
Second Floor
13-17 Dawson Street
Dublin 2
telephone (01) 6401060
email info@vso.ie
web www.vso.ie
Volunteer Missionary Movement
VMM is a lay Christian development agency. VMM sends development workers (aged 21+) to Africa and Central America to share their skills and professions, for one or two years.
Volunteer Missionary Movement
All Hallows College
Grace Park Road
Drumcondra
Dublin 9
tel: 01 - 837 6565
fax: 01 - 836 7112
E-mail: vmmeurgo@iol.ie
Web: http://www.vmm.cjb.net
Publications
The following publications may be obtainable from your local library or bookshop. In Dublin they are available for reference at:
Dublin City Council Community and Youth Information Centre
Sackville House
Sackville Place
Dublin 1
tel: 01 878 6844
fax: 01 878 6610
E-mail: cyic@dublincity.ie
International voluntary work Louise Whetter & Victoria Pybus, Vacation Work, 9 Park End Street, Oxford, OX1 1HJ, UK 7th edition, 2000, ISBN 1-85458-237-2 [by the same publisher: Kibbutz Volunteer, Green Volunteers]
Taking a year offVal Butcher, Trotham & Co. Ltd., 12 Hill Rise, Richmond, Surrey, TW10 6UA, UK 3rd edition, 1997, ISBN 0-85660-342-2
Volunteer work: the complete international guide to medium and long-term voluntary service Central Bureau for Educational Visits & Exchanges, 10 Spring Gardens, London, SW1A 2BN, UK 5th edition, ISBN 0-900087-92-7
Working in the voluntary sectorCraig Brown, How to Books Ltd., Plymbridge House, Estover Road, Plymouth, PL6 7PZ, UK 2nd Edition, ISBN1-85703-3671
Work your way around the worldSusan Griffith, Vacation Work, 9 Park End Street, Oxford, OX1 1HJ, UK, 1st edition,1999, ISBN 1-85458-205-4
Worldwide volunteering for young people 1999 Youth for Britain, How to Books Ltd., Plymbridge House, Estover Road, Plymouth, PL6 7PZ, UK 1st edition, 1998, ISBN 1-85703-397-3 |
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