Volunteer for Brad Paisley H2O World Tour!
We need volunteers to help us on the Brad Paisley H2O World tour!
The Water=Hope Campaign will be at 34 tour dates this summer and need a big crew of passionate clean water campaigners to help us out! Volunteers typically arrive at about 4pm, get a hands on training and a Water = Hope tee-shirt, then spend the time before the concert starts walking about and talking to fans about the importance of clean water, handing out info, and inspiring them to get involved.
Once the band hits the stage, volunteers get to take a break and typically check out the show from the lawn, and then lend us a hand again at the end of the evening.
It's a perfect summer volunteer opportunity: talk to people in your community about clean water, check out a great show, and help spread the word about the Water = Hope campaign! It's a great volunteer opportunity for groups of people as well - ask your friends to sign up!
To join us, just fill out the simple form at waterequalshope.com, noting which tour date you want to help out at in the ‘message' section, and we will follow up with more info right away.
Check out the ‘Volunteering FAQ‘ for more info as well.
Overseas Opportunities
Cross-Cultural Solutions is a non-profit international volunteer organization that operates volunteer programs in Ghana. Volunteers work in schools or clinics or spend time in less formal settings, working with local business owners or recording oral histories. Many volunteers use this program as a starting point for research opportunities.
Médecins Sans Frontières (also known as Doctors Without Borders or MSF) delivers emergency aid to victims of armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters, and others who lack health care due to social or geographical isolation. A private, nonprofit organization, MSF recruits doctors and other medical and non-medical staff. The genral requirements to volunteer are at least 2 years of professional experience, availability for at least six months, flexibility, experience in developing countries, and language skills.
Earthwatch organizes volunteer work for people of all nationalities in Africa and Central and South America. Volunteers are recruited to join research expeditions to help university and museum staffs undertake their field work. Projects in Africa generally involve conservation and archaeology.
This South African wildlife sanctuary offers a 2-3 week opportunity for 18-65 year olds to live on a game preserve working on projects such as re-introduction of game and animal husbandry, anti-poaching patrols, rehabilitation of destroyed wildlife, animal identification and species list compilation.
Global Routes offers teaching internships for 10-12 weeks in remote rural villages. They offer community service/cross-cultural exchange programs for North American high-school and college students throughout the world. Students immerse themselves in the life of a small, rural community as they live with a local family and teach in the village school, build a community meeting house or clinic or participate in other service projects.
Global Volunteers mobilizes teams of volunteers work on human and economic development projects identified by the community as important to its long-term development. They offer volunteer opportunities in 19 locations world-wide, including Ghana and Tanzania.
This organization offers volunteer work (4 week minimum) in Ghana either teaching at primary and secondary levels, working on environmental preservation or helping refugees. All opportunities are for those 18 years or older and fluent in English.
Africa Development Consortium (AFRIDEC) is an international non-profit organization registered in Kenya. Programs are centered in Kenya and Tanzania. Participants can choose from teaching abroad, medical care, HIV/AIDS awareness and care, conservation, community development and animal healthcare.
Operation Giving Back, a comprehensive resource designed to help surgeons find volunteer opportunities best suited to their expertise and interests, whether across town or across the world.
The Crossroads summer consists of three orientation days in New York City, six work weeks on a rural project as part of a work camp of 8-10 volunteers, and one travel week in the host country. Project topics include agriculture, education, construction, community health and women's development.
Since it was founded in 1960, more than 170,000 Peace Corps Volunteers have worked in 136 host countries on issues such as AIDS education, information technology, and environmental preservation. Peace Corps provides volunteer opportunities to make a difference in the lives of those overseas. 2 year commitment
United Nations Volunteer Program
Since 1970, the United Nations has been operating a volunteer scheme which recruits personnel to work on a large number of UN related development projects in developing countries. Volunteers are professionals interested in agriculture, health and education, human rights promotion, information and communication technology, community development, vocational training, industry and population.
U.S. International Ministries Group
U.S. International Ministries Group offers short and long-term missionary work in Ghana, Nigeria, North Africa, Zimbabwe, Kenya and others. Jobs involve construction, teaching and computer networking.
Visions in Action is a nonreligious, nonpolitical, registered nonprofit organization with headquarters in Washington, DC and small offices in each of its program countries. Visions offers 6 and 12 month volunteer placements in Uganda, Tanzania and South Africa. Short-term programs of 3-7 weeks are offered in Tanzania. Positions are available with local nonprofit development organizations, research institutes, health clinics, community and activist groups and the media
VolunteerAfrica is an International non-profit providing people from around the world the opportunity to work on community initiated projects in developing countries. Volunteers participate for ten, seven or four weeks in Tanzania on locally initiated community projects facilitated by HAPA, a registered Tanzanian non-governmental organization, and Volunteer Africa, a British charity. Typical projects include practical hands-on work, such as building school classrooms or dispensaries.
OTHER RESOURCES
National Consortium for Study in Africa
This site offers a thorough list of volunteer, research and work opportunities in Africa.
A site detailing several volunteer opportunities in Africa, filtered by organization type (ie. Religious, sustainable development, AIDS/HIV, fundraising, etc).
Volunteer Work and Internships
This basic page generated by UPenn has a list of several organizations and their contact information for those interested in volunteer work in Africa. The organizations vary in purposes and expenses.