Volunteering work in manifold projects

 Which Work suits You?

Do you want to work with children while improving your English? Would you like to be a teacher in a foreign country and help people there? Did you always want to get involved with nature and animal protection? Or maybe you are interested in our backoffice, where you can prove your organisational and business-management skills.
 
Our volunteering programme offers you the chance to use your individual talents, knowledge and education, according to your individual interests. You can decide yourself which projects you want to support. You can choose between challenges in the fields of teaching, nature conservation, social care, and management. Besides, in most cases tasks of different projects can be combined or you can work for one of our local fellow associations.

	Teaching In our Education Development Centre, children from economically disadvantaged or Tsunami-affected families get the possibility to learn English or how to handle a computer. This education is free of charge and increases these families' chances to improve their financial situation. In the scope of the volunteering programme, you assist the teacher and you can even teach a class on your own. Of course we will help you to apply the best teaching methods. Besides, the children and we are always looking forward to seeing new friendly faces and listen to some new ideas for the lessons.
	Nature Conservation In the scope of our activities for the environment and animal protection, we always benefit from the help of motivated volunteers. In general, we work on different projects at same time, so you can choose, which one suits you best. Would you like to be involved in a turtle rescue action, help us to protect and re-cultivate endangered plants, assist with the implementation of a recycling system or fight against water pollution in Sri Lanka? You can do all this - or propose new projects - a fresh inspiration is always welcome!
	Social Care Social care through the government does virtually not exist in Sri Lanka. The parents' retirement is economically covered only by the money their children earn. With the Tsunami in 2004, the number of orphans increased as well as the number of old people that lost their children and now live in a home without the social support of a family. They are dependent on their neighbourhood and on the local and international help organisations. With our voluntering programme, we want to support the local homes for the aged and orphanages help these people. A smile can already do so much.
	Management Working on so many projects means: There has to be a good project management. THe projects have to be planned, costs have to be calculated, financial means have to be requested and status reports for our sponsors have to be written. Besides, our backoffice has to deal with the Sri Lankan peculiarities and to solve many problems. Do you want to act as a business represantative of our organisation and work in our project management team? We need your help to manage our volunteering programme and to implement new ideas.