Global Volunteer Guide 2006
By Outpost 
Our annual comprehensive guide to global volunteering and making a difference overseas.
Whether we have two weeks, two months or two years, more and more Canadians are signing up to teach in classrooms, provide medical aid, build schools and dig ditches around the world than ever before. From raw and eager teens to savvy 75-year-olds, we’re making a global contribution, and it’s a wave that keeps growing.
Get inspired with this year’s team of Travellers for Change—10 Canadians who’ve built their lives around helping others in far-flung corners of the planet. Then discover how you can do it yourself with our comprehensive listing of overseas development and volunteer agencies. We’ve expanded this year’s guide to also include a special section on education experiences—unique university-level field work and immersion opportunities often with a development component. From archaeology and engineering to nursing and social work, there are a plethora of for-credit options in a global, real world context.
And, as though to remind ourselves that sometimes the simplest solutions are the best ones, we examine five low-tech tools and innovations that are making change around the globe, from sugarcane charcoal to a merry-go-round that pumps clean water while children play.
Consider this a guide to once-in-a-lifetime experiences—the first step to interacting with the world in a new way. It may just change the way you travel.
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I would love to share my travel experience through writing articles on your magazine or having a column titled “a primitive walk through Africa with a native”, I have been walking the eastern and southern part of the African continent and it was in 2005 that my story made head lines through out the continent with my walk from Nairobi to Cape town in a duration of six months. I do think that through your magazine the world is able to open up the borders of fear that restrict their travelling.
Please find more on my mission on http://www.maasaiwarrior.com.
May peace be with you.
I’ll be backpacking in Asia over the summer and wondering if anyone has had any good volounteering experiences in Asia they would like to share or places you could recommend for me? Thanks
Dawn–Greetings from another mid-40s, very well travelled Mom, with a very well-travelled daughter (age 9). I cannot suggest strongly enough that you take a look at Cross-Cultural Solutions (www.crossculturalsolutions.org). I have known about and supported this organization for over 15 years, and in fact just visited their home base in Rabat, Morocco. My daughter was ready to sign up on the spot, and I was just about ready to let her. We are planning to do something very much like what you describe in your post at their program in Trang, Thailand. They are an amazing organization with true heart AND courage. I urge you to make yourself a big cup of coffee and spend about an hour on their website. It’s just the ticket for you, I think.
International Leadership Opportunity in Jamaica
The Riverton Camp and International Leadership Exchange is an endeavor that provides opportunities for youth to develop their skills by extending leadership training at an international level.
A group of skilled Canadian youths travels to Kingston, Jamaica to work with children in a very needy community known as Riverton. Participants stay in a very safe neighborhood of Kingston. While working in Riverton, the volunteers run a Leadership Program for boys and girls 15 years of age. The focus of the program brings 20 Riverton children to a camp setting outside Kingston, Jamaica where the Canadians offer their counseling skills at a 5-day Riverton Camp. This camp experience provides the children of Riverton with respite from the rigors of their daily life, a chance to be children, to swim, play and be involved in community and social conscience building activities. More importantly, the Riverton Camp gives these children, who have never previously left Riverton, a chance to broaden their horizons and to develop hope for a brighter future.
We invite individuals with leadership or camp counseling skills to participate in the Riverton Camp in Jamaica this summer.
Dates of trip: July 28 – August 7, 2008
Cost of trip: $1,850.00 all in (airfare, land transportation, food, accommodation)
Participants traveling to Jamaica will need a valid Canadian passport.
I’m in my mid 40’s, well travelled and have a 14 year old daughter and we are both interested in volunteering overseas to help educate little ones, in English, problem soving, simple games, teaching rudimentary cleanliness/dressings and help with first aid, or just assist where need be, for a couple of weeks. We are both strong enough to build/haul etc.Does anyone have any ideas on where and how to get started/involved? I appreciate any imput.
So can Global Volunteer Guide be obtained off line? If so, deatails please. My local McNally Robinson says there’s no record of it in print. Thanks