How To Live Your Dream of Volunteering Overseas
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-Continuing Education |
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Community-based Service Learning |
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Reference - Article/Document |
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Audio |
| Author(s): |
Joseph Collins Stefano DeZerega Zahara Heckscher |
| Description: | Book with case studies and tips on how to engage in volunteer work overseas. "If you are hungry for information on how you can help people overseas while exploring other cultures, making friends, learning about yourself, and enhancing your skills, then this book is for you. How To Live Your Dream of Volunteering Overseas provides the information you seek in a user-friendly format featuring quotes, worksheets, case studies, and inspiring stories. Based on six years of research that included fieldwork in over 25 countries, the book is not just a directory of opportunities, but a critical review of over 80 volunteer placement organizations in this rapidly growing field, as well as a detailed but easy to read manual about everything from why to volunteer to what to do when you get back. How To Live Your Dream of Volunteering Overseas is an in-depth guide for anyone who wants volunteer in Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East or Eastern Europe." |
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| Keywords: | service learning civic engagement |
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Heckscher's career as a writer and social justice organizer is grounded in her work overseas -- volunteering to plant fruit trees in rural Zambia and helping to build a medical clinic in Nicaragua. She has also traveled extensively in Latin America, Asia, Europe, and Africa. Heckscher has recently served as the Director of Outreach and Coalition Relations for the Save Darfur Coalition. She has also worked as the Director of the Washington, DC office of Global Exchange, as well as the founding director of Our Voices Together, an organization founded by families of September 11 victims. Her service on boards of directors includes Men Can Stop Rape and the Washington chapter of the Generation After, an organization for children of holocaust survivors. |
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Medium |
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Very low |
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| Publication Date: | March 2009 |
| Platform/Format: |
WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.volunteeroverseas.org/html/description.html |
| Metadata: |
IEEE LOM Record |
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NEEDS
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