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about How to Take a Volunteer Trip
What Are Your Experiences In Taking A Free Volunteer Trip For Charity?
Which organization? Links? What was it like? Was it worth it to you? What did you do and learn? Would you recommend it to others? Etc.
Links, videos, photos and any other helpful information welcome!
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FREE VOLUNTEER TRAVEL LINKS:
To start you off here are some places I found that look like they offer volunteer travel.
Please add to this list below by giving links to places that you know of also.
Soles for Souls A Shoe Charity Giving to Those in Need
(a new pair of shoes given out every 9 seconds)
http://www.soles4souls.org/
How to Get Involved (Click on Travel with Us)
http://www.soles4souls.org/get_involved/
Marilyn Hickey Ministries
http://www.marilynhickey.com/
Marilyn and Sarah (Click on Travel - eg. China, Greece, Costa Rica)
http://www.marilynandsarah.org/
Oral Roberts Ministries
Richard Roberts often takes a medical team of doctors, chiropractors and other health professionals to hold
a free medical clinic as part of his outreach visit to a country. In the recent outreach to Kenya,
they also had volunteers from Europe.
http://www.oralroberts.com
Mahalo Page
http://www.mahalo.com/lindsay-roberts
Past International Outreach Travel Examples
http://www.oralroberts.com/missions/international-outreach/
Doctors Without Borders
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/
"On any given day, close to 27,000 doctors, nurses, logisticians, water-and-sanitation experts, administrators, and other qualified professionals can be found providing medical care in international teams made up of local MSF aid workers and their colleagues from around the world."
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/aboutus/activities.cfm?ref=main-menu
Work with Doctors Without Borders - lists the kinds of staff needed:
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/work/?ref=main-menu
Photo Creative Commons by Dave Bezaire & Susi Havens-Bezaire
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dlbezaire/879047171/
MORE RESOURCES:
For more information about volunteering check out these Mahalo pages:
How to Take a Volunteer Trip and How to Volunteer
Here is a resource that I found for matching people with volunteer positions and other services - check it out.
Of course you would need to thoroughly check this and any information they give out thoroughly
just like you do with anything on the Net, but they look very useful. Here is how they describe themselves:
"The organization offers a variety of online services to support a community of nonprofit, volunteer and business leaders committed to civic engagement. Our popular service welcomes millions of visitors a year and has become the preferred internet recruiting tool for more than 72,000 nonprofit organizations."
http://www.volunteermatch.org/about/
Photo Creative Commons by Dave Bezaire & Susi Havens-Bezaire
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dlbezaire/879892134/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dlbezaire/879989574/
Links, videos, photos and any other helpful information welcome!
Photo Creative Commons by Dave Bezaire & Susi Havens-Bezaire
FREE VOLUNTEER TRAVEL LINKS:
To start you off here are some places I found that look like they offer volunteer travel.
Please add to this list below by giving links to places that you know of also.
Soles for Souls A Shoe Charity Giving to Those in Need
(a new pair of shoes given out every 9 seconds)
http://www.soles4souls.org/
How to Get Involved (Click on Travel with Us)
http://www.soles4souls.org/get_involved/
Marilyn Hickey Ministries
http://www.marilynhickey.com/
Marilyn and Sarah (Click on Travel - eg. China, Greece, Costa Rica)
http://www.marilynandsarah.org/
Oral Roberts Ministries
Richard Roberts often takes a medical team of doctors, chiropractors and other health professionals to hold
a free medical clinic as part of his outreach visit to a country. In the recent outreach to Kenya,
they also had volunteers from Europe.
http://www.oralroberts.com
Mahalo Page
http://www.mahalo.com/lindsay-roberts
Past International Outreach Travel Examples
http://www.oralroberts.com/missions/international-outreach/
Doctors Without Borders
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/
"On any given day, close to 27,000 doctors, nurses, logisticians, water-and-sanitation experts, administrators, and other qualified professionals can be found providing medical care in international teams made up of local MSF aid workers and their colleagues from around the world."
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/aboutus/activities.cfm?ref=main-menu
Work with Doctors Without Borders - lists the kinds of staff needed:
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/work/?ref=main-menu
Photo Creative Commons by Dave Bezaire & Susi Havens-Bezaire
MORE RESOURCES:
For more information about volunteering check out these Mahalo pages:
How to Take a Volunteer Trip and How to Volunteer
Here is a resource that I found for matching people with volunteer positions and other services - check it out.
Of course you would need to thoroughly check this and any information they give out thoroughly
just like you do with anything on the Net, but they look very useful. Here is how they describe themselves:
"The organization offers a variety of online services to support a community of nonprofit, volunteer and business leaders committed to civic engagement. Our popular service welcomes millions of visitors a year and has become the preferred internet recruiting tool for more than 72,000 nonprofit organizations."
http://www.volunteermatch.org/about/
Photo Creative Commons by Dave Bezaire & Susi Havens-Bezaire
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I just came back from a 4-day trip to Lake Tahoe on the Nevada/California border with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS) Team in Training (TNT, see http://www.teamintraining.org/ ). While at Lake Tahoe, I participated in "America's Most Beautiful Bike Ride 2010", a 100-mile bike ride around the lake (with 30 of those miles along the Truckee). It was an extraordinary feeling to be one of 1300 cyclists from TNT (out of about 3000 cyclists total on the ride). Together, we raised over $6,000,000 through this ride. Riding 100 miles is not the easiest thing in the world, and doing it at elevations of 6000 - 7000 feet above sea level, with only a day and a half to acclimate to the lower atmospheric pressure made it even more challenging. However, it was a wonderful ride, with amazing scenery, and a great spirit of camaraderie. You can read more about the TNT cycling program at http://www.teamintraining.org/firsttimehere/sportprograms/centuryridescycle . I would most definitely recommend it to anyone who wants to make a difference, and who is willing to get off the couch and train. If you follow the training program, which is not very difficult because it is done gradually over several months, you will be ready for the ride and will complete it.
You can read more about my training for a previous 100 mile bike ride at http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2220001/getting_fit_while_raising_funds_to.html .
You can see a video of the 2007 ride (the general one, not TNT-specific, though you'll see many TNT riders with the word "TEAM" easily visible on their jerseys) at http://www.bikethewest.com/video/ambbr-2007a/index.html .
A slide show of the Lake Tahoe area and satellite imagery can be seen at http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=215 .
A more detailed description of the ride is available at http://yubanet.com/regional/America-s-Most-Beautiful-Bike-Ride-Around-Lake-Tahoe-is-June-6.php .
You can read more about my training for a previous 100 mile bike ride at http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2220001/getting_fit_while_raising_funds_to.html .
You can see a video of the 2007 ride (the general one, not TNT-specific, though you'll see many TNT riders with the word "TEAM" easily visible on their jerseys) at http://www.bikethewest.com/video/ambbr-2007a/index.html .
A slide show of the Lake Tahoe area and satellite imagery can be seen at http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=215 .
A more detailed description of the ride is available at http://yubanet.com/regional/America-s-Most-Beautiful-Bike-Ride-Around-Lake-Tahoe-is-June-6.php .
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