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Blogs You Should Know About: Gloria In Africa
Date: March 12th, 2007 |
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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 (and see some beautiful photos) on her blog, Gloria in Africa. You can also learn about the 501 C3 organization Gloria established in the US - [read more]
Travel To Teach: Profile And News
Date: March 8th, 2007 | No Comments
Travel to Teach (T2T) places interested participants into voluntary teaching positions in a number of countries worldwide. There is a cost associated with the project; see the link in the Thailand section for an example of the training provided for free and available for a fee there. Also see the TEFL Logue profile [read more]
Volunteer News: i-to-i Changes Hands
Date: March 6th, 2007 | No Comments
Deirdre has last laugh in i-to-i sale: i-to-i sold to First Choice Holiday
i-to-i is the UK’s leading organization “giving travellers the opportunity to carry out voluntary work overseas” (see the Volunteer Logue’s profile of i-to-i here). Deirdre Bounds, who also worked as a stand-up comedian and taught English in Greece, founded the organization in 1995. [read more]
American Red Cross
Date: March 5th, 2007 | No Comments
Probably one of the best-known volunteer organizations in the world, the American Red Cross provides disaster services (for people affected by everything from house fires to natural disasters), organizes blood drives, assists in emergency communication between military service personnel and their families, and provides services – such as counseling - for veterns.
The Red Cross was [read more]
Volunteer Placement Organization: Global Visions International (GVI)
Date: February 28th, 2007 | No Comments
Global Visions International is a British-based organization which places volunteers in “over 150 projects including challenging Marine Conservation and Wildlife Research expeditions in Africa and Latin America and volunteer teaching and wildlife projects in over 30 countries worldwide.”
You can search by duration, focus and region. Examples include working with elephants and communities both in [read more]
International Committee Of The Red Cross (ICRC)
Date: March 10th, 2007 | No Comments
Established in 1863, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is involved in activities directed toward those affected by conflict and internal violence, such as protection, assistance, mine action, humanitarian diplomacy and distributing aid. The organization also “endeavours to prevent suffering by promoting and strengthening humanitarian law and universal humanitarian principles.”
One interesting role [read more]
Volunteer Placement Organization: Volunteers For Peace
Date: March 7th, 2007 | No Comments
Volunteers For Peace is a non-profit organization which was founded in 1982. It works by acting as a partner to a large number of similar organizations worldwide and its goal is “to work toward a more peaceful world through the promotion of International Voluntary Service (IVS) projects, historically known as International Workcamps, and the exchange [read more]
“Saving the lives of dogs to enrich the lives of people”: The Sam Simon Foundation
Date: March 6th, 2007 | No Comments
Photo from
cbsnews.com
Sam Simon, one of the creators of The Simpsons, currently finances a program (appropriately named the Sam Simon Foundation) which trains stray dogs to work as service dogs, assisting people with disabilities. A dog trainer visits shelters to choose dogs whose respective temperaments are suitable; the dogs undergo six months of preparatory [read more]
Volunteer With Gibbons In Thailand
Date: March 3rd, 2007 | No Comments
Photo from
CritterImages.com
No, that’s not my picture to the right; the Volunteer Logue received a heads up about a press release received at Bootsnall regarding an opportunity for six paying volunteers to assist in the release of four gibbons (actually a family of gibbons) in Thailand. The monkeys were rescued from “illegal tourist practices” as [read more]
Peace Brigades International: Update
Date: February 28th, 2007 | No Comments
Peace Brigades International keeps people on their toes.They provide regular updates and news about their volunteer program and relevent news developments.
If you happen to live in London and are free tonight, you might be able to catch “The moral use of force,” a two-hour talk, at 7pm at St. Ethel Burgas:
“Is it feasible to use [read more]
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