Join us for the final training session of the year as Anthony Lunch, Managing Director of international NGO MondoChallenge shares with us the A to Z of volunteering abroad.

Please register your interest with training@oxhub.org ASAP due to limited capacity

Trainer: Anthony Lunch, Managing Director, MondoChallenge

Date: Tuesday of Week 4 (13th May 2008)

Time & Venue: 7.30pm to 9.30pm – Miles Room, St Peter’s College

Volunteering abroad can be one of the most enriching ways to spend a couple of months. Not only is it an opportunity to share your life and skills with people in another country but it can bring long term benefits to them and to your own career. Indeed it is often a life changing experience.

This session will focus on how to choose the best volunteering organisation for yourself, the dos and don’ts of volunteering abroad, and provide you an overview of pre-trip preparations that would be required for such trips as well as the post-trip reviews. It will cover the ethical dimension of volunteering, ask pertinent questions like what the ideal trip length is and why you should pay as a volunteer, as well as touch on travelling with a purpose.

MondoChallenge was set up in 2001 as a not-for-profit organisation. Since then, they have sent over 950 volunteers to help with development programmes in Asia (India, Nepal, Sri Lanka), Africa (Tanzania, Gambia, Senegal and Kenya), Europe (Romania) and South America (Chile and Ecuador). Volunteers come from all over the world and stay for periods of from one to six months. The projects are community based and they strongly encourage volunteers to initiate adult literacy, sports, music, arts, and theatre clubs and activities for the benefit of the wider community.

Contact: training@oxhub.org for registration, queries etc. See you then!