Description

From April 2008 to May 2009, project volunteers contributed over 35,100 hours to community development by participation in medical projects, teaching efforts and recreational sport activities in Livingstone. The aim of the various initiatives was, and continues to be to build a stronger community through education, medical aid, healthy physical activity, and building/refurbishing school and clinic facilities. In choosing this project, volunteers will be making a commitment to work with some of the most impoverished communities in the area, with the end goal of improving the quality of life of residents.

Highlights

Volunteers will have the chance to participate in a variety of projects during their stay in Livingstone. Specifically, they will focus on the following fields:

Educational work:
- Review Classes
- Marking Tests and Assignments
- Assisting teachers in class or teaching their own classes with the given lesson plan

Sports coaching:
- Physical education within schools
- Training the local soccer teams
- Work with a one-of-a-kind initiative that combines HIV education and soccer/football training
- Specialist Sports- volunteers can run courses if they have a specialty (such as yoga, pilates, etc.)

Medical Volunteering:
- Help out the sisters in the clinics, serving to alleviate some of their busy workload, particularly with taking patients' vital signs before consultation and helping with clinic record keeping and filing.
- Visit and provide care to ill people in their homes, as well as to residents at the local old people's home.
- Work on school refurbishment and building projects.
- Conduct HIV Education around the communities of Livingstone where the disease affects vast proportions of the population.
- Train local people how to care for the sick in their communities.

In addition to these feilds, volunteers will participate in a number of other initiatives.

Qualifications

- Min age 17 - Max age 80 (Min age for Medical volunteering is 18)
- Basic English
- Good physical fitness
- Motivation to work with animals
- Full travel &medical insurance
- Immunizations (please consult your doctor)

Languages

• English

Cost in US$:

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Cost Includes:

• Food
• Housing
• In-country orientation/Training
• In-country staff support

Program Fees Include:

- Accommodation: Lodge rooms for 2-4 people
- Food: 3 meals a day
- Airport pickup: Included on arrival day
- Orientation kit: full project details will be sent following registration
- Training: Pre-departure preparation and In-country orientation
- Support: Local in-country team and 24hr emergency support

Experience Required

no

Volunteer Types

Age Range

18+

This Program is open to

Worldwide Participants. This Program is also open to Families, Couples and Individuals.

Typical Living Arrangements

• Other

Participants Travel

Independently

Typically Participants Work

Independently

Application Process Involves

• Online Application plus Application Assessment
• Phone/Video Interview

GoEco - Volunteer Abroad's Mission Statement

(1) Encourage ecological and volunteer tourism that promotes sustainable development (2) Enable travelers to experience different and more rewarding kinds of tourism. (3) Encourage travelers to volunteer for the benefit of others and thus to serve as a good-will ambassador to other countries in the world. (4) Encourage travelers from all over the world to come to Israel for ecological and community-based projects, in both the Arab and Jewish sectors, and experience firsthand the unique cultural and natural diversity in this region. (5) Support environmental and humanitarian projects that promote understanding and good will between ethnic societies in Israel. (6) Conduct further research in the field of ecological tourism, such as the 'Ecological Footprint' as a tool for sustainable tourism development. (7) Establish an in-depth and up-to-date data base of the relevant projects worldwide. (8) Create a platform from which to explore the various organizations that support the environment and actively encourage volunteering.

Year Founded

2005