International
International Volunteering
Nottingham Trent Volunteering works with a range of organisations and projects abroad in order to offer you some fantastic overseas volunteering opportunities. While there are many benefits to volunteering overseas, we want to make sure that you think about the ethical considerations behind choosing where you volunteer.
If you are interested in international volunteering, then we would suggest that you look into the six opportunities below in the first instance. However, if you can't find what you are looking for there, you will need to look into sourcing your own volunteering and we will be running some workshops at the start of each academic year to help you do that.
These workshops are designed to help you think about the ethical considerations behind choosing where you volunteer, covering areas such as:
- Exactly what work will I be doing?
- Does the organisation work with a local partner organisation?
- Does the organisation make any financial contribution to its volunteer programs? If so exactly how much is this?
- Does the organisation have policies on eco and ethical tourism? If so, how are they implemented?
These opportunities are staffed and supervised by members of NTU / NTSU staff who accompany the students while abroad. These are only open to NTU students and people are chosen through a recruitment process.
Little John's House is a fully integrated specialist children's home in Romania which caters for a full range of social, health and educational needs for a small group of children. The home is staffed by trained Romanian helpers with the medical advice of a Health Care professional.
Balls to Poverty is a charity based in South Nottingham College working with and for young people in Nottingham, South Africa and Uganda.
The Big Build: Morocco is about seeing first-hand the impact your fundraising can have. You will live and work in a remote Berber community in the foothills of the Atlas Mountains.
International volunteering opportunities NTU supports with recruitment of volunteers
Since the devastation of 2004 the Tsunami Orphans have been scattered all over Sri Lanka, brothers & sisters separated and placed in institutionalised care. The Rosie May Home is a unique and exciting concept where sisters are re-united and live together again as a family unit.
The Waithaki Soccer Queens are a group of destitute girls from the slums of Nairobi redefining their role in society through social enterprise and sport. But African girls are playing in a field that is still far from level where the goalposts keep moving. Inspirational Volunteer Journeys develops leaders who want to change this.
East African Playgrounds (EAP) aims to change the lives of children across East Africa by developing schools environments, sports and play facilities.
Suggested self-sourced volunteering
If you are interested in international volunteering, then we would suggest that you look into the six opportunities above in the first instance. However, if you can't find what you are looking for there, you will need to look into sourcing your own volunteering.
To begin with, it would be good to look into the organisations supported by the International Citizen Service, but as with any volunteering abroad you will need to look into the opportunities very carefully and make sure you are happy with how your money is spent, the ethics and nature of the organisation you are going with and what involvement the local community have in the opportunity.
