O/T Volunteering Abroad

[thegentlegiant]

Hi,

Thought's please....

Has anyone ever volunteered abroad or considered it? I have recently been considering this due to my job role going.....I am looking for a new challenge and for a completely new experience!

Would you ever consider it? if so where and what would you like to do?

Sam

[George Dawes]

if your going to work in a 3rd world country, i think you've got to take your personal safety into serious consideration first and foremost



i wont name countries as the admin on here will only delete my post for being politically correct



if you can play a bit of football or know a bit try coaching soccer in the USA in there summer holidays, i know of a few people who've done that and loved it

[Plain Peter]

I haven't.
But I've been to a wonderful place on the Thai/Burma border called Sangkhlaburi.
There are many displaced Karen people who have been booted out of Burma by the regime. They live in their own village just outside of Sangkhlaburi, which is reached, across a beautiful lake, by the longest man-made wooden footbridge in the world.
I spoke to a few volunteers, mainly from the USA.
They find the volunteering very fulfilling, and that part of Western Thailand is stunning.
Me and Doris would love to give it a go, but haven't got the time at present.

[thegentlegiant]

I have been considering this one...

http://www.projects-abroad.co.uk/projec ... osta-rica/

The costs are as follows for a 3 month trip
£2,395 includes meals, food, place to stay and insurance
Additional £695 for flights
Total £3,090

Something I would love to do but the costs involved are extremely expensive.....

Still trying to see if any goverment funding is available for this sort of thing.

[Gnasher]

Ever thought of becoming a bus driver

[red mist]

Ever thought of becoming a bus driver

[Keith]

if your going to work in a 3rd world country, i think you've got to take your personal safety into serious consideration first and foremost

i wont name countries as the admin on here will only delete my post for being politically correct

Taking your personal safety into serious consideration is highly appropriate and what ever country you want to advise against, feel free. That's not 'PC' that's good advice (if you can back it up).

Deleting a crap joke that wouldn't look out of place in a BNP leaflet isn't PC either, that's saving you from looking like a numpty... call it care in the community

If you have experience or knowledge that will enable a decent discussion, please post it.

Back to the original poster...

List your skills and what you may have to offer. Do you speak a foreign language? Could you teach? Most developing countries don't need labour, they have that in abundance, what they are missing is 'skilled' labour or the means to create their own skilled labour.

Leonard Cheshire Disability operate in more than 50 countries world wide. They support overseas volunteers. LCD International

If you speak any Spanish or are basic but good at picking up languages, The Dream Project in the Dominican Republic have a good reputation for supporting overseas volunteers. I know the organisation, I also know that they are very pro-active, for example, any volunteer who uses the moto-concho (moped taxi) is immediately sent home because they are so dangerous.
Dream Project

[George Dawes]

I have been considering this one...

http://www.projects-abroad.co.uk/projec ... osta-rica/

The costs are as follows for a 3 month trip
£2,395 includes meals, food, place to stay and insurance
Additional £695 for flights
Total £3,090

Something I would love to do but the costs involved are extremely expensive.....

Still trying to see if any government funding is available for this sort of thing.

very good website that one, this is the one i like, in the same place Costa Rica, but coaching football

--> http://www.projects-abroad.co.uk/destin ... /football/


and politically it seems very stable, and well governed

[thegentlegiant]

if your going to work in a 3rd world country, i think you've got to take your personal safety into serious consideration first and foremost

i wont name countries as the admin on here will only delete my post for being politically correct

Taking your personal safety into serious consideration is highly appropriate and what ever country you want to advise against, feel free. That's not 'PC' that's good advice (if you can back it up).

Deleting a crap joke that wouldn't look out of place in a BNP leaflet isn't PC either, that's saving you from looking like a numpty... call it care in the community

If you have experience or knowledge that will enable a decent discussion, please post it.

Back to the original poster...

List your skills and what you may have to offer. Do you speak a foreign language? Could you teach? Most developing countries don't need labour, they have that in abundance, what they are missing is 'skilled' labour or the means to create their own skilled labour.

Leonard Cheshire Disability operate in more than 50 countries world wide. They support overseas volunteers. LCD International

If you speak any Spanish or are basic but good at picking up languages, The Dream Project in the Dominican Republic have a good reputation for supporting overseas volunteers. I know the organisation, I also know that they are very pro-active, for example, any volunteer who uses the moto-concho (moped taxi) is immediately sent home because they are so dangerous.
Dream Project

I only know english I have never really tried to learn any other laugaues, I can see that a degree is required with the Leonard Cheshire Disability, the only qualification I have if ICT intermediate computing which could put a stop to my plans, i do like the idea of the challenge with LCD.

Could you help me with putting me in contact with LCD?

[Keith]

If you can e-mail me your cv with a covering letter stating what you would like to do and why and I will pass it on to some people in International. Let me know where in the world you want to go etc too.

keith.fitton[at]LCDisability.org

[thegentlegiant]

Cheers Keith, i will do that tomorrow!