Take a look at some of the skills share volunteer programmes that need your help - people and places responsle volunteer projects abroad

1. WHERE COULD YOU
VOLUNTEER?
CREATING TAILOR-MADE VOLUNTEER PROJECTS TO MEET THE NEEDS OF
BOTH YOURSELF AND THE COMMUNITY

2. Saint Lucia
Peru
IndiaThe Gambia
South Africa
Kenya
Nepal
Cambodia
Morocco
Swaziland
We have projects in all these countries

3. THE GAMBIA
WEALTH CREATION THROUGH
TOURISM
• ITTOG – college empowering
local people by training them in
all aspects of travel and tourism
• Encouraging entrepreneurship
and self-sustainability by running
businesses such as a restaurant
and travel brokerage company
• ASSET – supporting, promoting
and training small tourism-
related enterprises to help them
maximise the benefits of tourism
• FTF – running training courses for
teachers to provide a higher
quality of education

4. PERU
TOURISM AND COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT IN A KEY WORLD
CONSERVATION AREA
• Developing responsible tourism
and conservation research in the
Amazonian rainforest
• Supporting the local community
whose jobs are no longer
sustainable
• Initiatives to improve health such
as planting biogardens
• Developing business initiatives
such as a local cooperative
• Building local capacity through
better education opportunities
• Helping people maximise the
benefits of living in an important
area for tourism

5. SAINT LUCIA
AN IMPORTANT TOURIST
DESTINATION – BUT LOCAL PEOPLE
NEED SUPPORT
• Helping Saint Lucia National
Trust with business and
organisational development so
they get greater benefit from
the tourist market
• Supporting various local
initiatives to help disadvantaged
young people get training to
enhance their employment
prospects

6. CAMBODIA
BUILDING COMMUNITY CAPACITY
TO ENABLE FAMILIES TO STAY
TOGETHER
• Community centre run by local
NGO supporting a poor agricultural
and fishing community
• Supplementing school education
by teaching new subjects such as
English, and by providing a full
day’s schooling
• Proving vocational training for
adults in subjects such as IT,
electronics, carpentry, to enable
them to get work to support their
families
• Proving family support and health
care to the local community
• Organising a variety of activities to
create a supportive and
sustainable community

7. SWAZILAND AND KENYA
PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR
SEVERELY DISADVANTAGED
CHILDREN
• Swaziland: neighbourhood care
points provide basic pre-school
education and nutrition
• Kenya: a special needs school
provides educational
opportunities for children often
ostracised by the rest of society

8. SOUTH AFRICA
CREATING A BETTER FUTURE
THROUGH EDUCATION AND
COMMUNITY SUPPORT
• Working with teachers in 10
crowded and under-resourced
township schools to support
children’s learning and provide
professional development
opportunities for teachers
• Supporting vulnerable families
(including HIV sufferers) by
providing health care, advice and
nutrition through advice centres,
self-help groups, community and
pre-school care

9. MOROCCO
EDUCATION AS A TOOL FOR
DEVELOPMENT
• Boarding houses provide
secondary school education for
girls from the Berber tribes in the
Atlas Mountains
• There are now 5 boarding houses
in three different areas
• House mothers from local
communities are great role
models
• Pass rate for 2014 was 93%, well
above the national average
• Eight girls from the boarding
houses are now at university
• There are new plans for
community development,
providing opportunities for girls
to find employment in their own
communities.

10. INDIA AND NEPAL
EDUCATION AS A TOOL FOR
DEVELOPMENT
• Helping teachers to develop a
wider range of strategies for
teaching and learning
• Working with teachers to
support children’s learning
• Providing professional
development for teachers, many
of whom have had little training
• Helping children and teachers to
become confident in and to
enjoy speaking English