Product Description

A guide to voluntary work.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #475742 in Books
• Published on: 2006-11-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 368 pages

From the Inside Flap
International Voluntary Work

PART I RESIDENTIAL WORK WORLDWIDE
Creating an eco-centre in India â€" Organic Farming in Hawaii â€" Archaeological digs in France â€" Fruit picking in Ecuador â€" Sports coaching in Tanzania â€" Working with street children in Brazil â€" Constructing wells in Cambodia â€" Studying whales in The Canary Islands â€" Conservation work in Kenya â€" Rescuing wild animals in Thailand â€" Teaching English to Russian children.

PART II NON-RESIDENTIAL WORK IN THE USA AND CANADA
Guide in the New York Botanical Garden â€" Caring for seal pups in Cornwall â€" Helping to rehouse homeless people â€" Stewarding in Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre â€" Planting trees in San Fancisco â€" Raptor rehabilitation in North Carolina â€" Restoring steam locomotives â€" Befriending a disabled child â€" Assisting at a film festival in Wyoming â€" Puppy-walking guide dogs for the blind â€" Preparing food for dolphins in Florida â€" Sorting books to send to developing countries.

Over 700 organisations listed with first-hand accounts of volunteers’ experience and advice.

Customer Reviews

Maybe too thorough
As an example, the first section has 8 pages of normal volunteer work, and 10 pages seeking people to help evangelise in missions. This seems to continue through the rest of the book. There is definately good information in this book, tonnes if you want to help people buy teaching the gospel, a bit too much picking through if you feel this approach is less than helpful. This would have been more useful had it been split into two books. The green volunteer guide is a little out of date but better.

A good buy
I got this book few years ago and it was one of the best things tha has happend in my life . With this book I managed to find voluntary work in UK : I gained an experience , met a lot of nice people and my husband .This book it's a good place to start with.