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Our Cultural Exchange Program brings individuals and groups of volunteers to BPP from an afternoon to a full semester. Through volunteerism, students are exposed to English total immersion and interact with diverse populations within a positive setting that helps them healthily integrate into the rising tourism industry. Our Cultural Exchange Program is also one of the biggest ways we have been able to grow towards more long-term self-sustainability for our organization.We work with you to create a customized volunteering experience that align's your interests with the programs needs.
Cultural Exchange Package Options:
1. The Local package is USD 295/week and includes homestay accommodation including 3 meals/day, 20 hours of private Spanish Classes, and 15 hours of volunteering
2. The Resident package is USD 225/week and includes Homestay + Volunteering
3. The Spanish Speaker is USD 215/week and includes Spanish Classes + Volunteering
4. The Voluntourist is USD 30/half day, USD 60/full day and customized activities are offered for groups of 6 or more.
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The Woods Project runs weekend trips at different sites near Houston. Our trips include everything from backpacking to canoeing and kayaking to pulling invasive species or planting trees for service projects. We combine students from different high schools who come out with their teachers to enjoy the woods, meet new people and develop strong leadership skills and confidence.Here are our Spring 2018 Weekend Trips. Pick the weekend(s) that suits your schedule:
Mar 3-5th Backpacking at Sam Houston National Forest
Mar 3-5th Kayaking/Fishing at Galveston State Park
Mar 23-25th Backpacking at Sam Houston National Forest
Mar 23-25th Camping at Brazos Bend State Park
April 6-8 Kayaking/Fishing at Galveston State Park
April 6-8 Backpacking at TBD
April 20-22 Canoe/Kayak at Huntsville State Park
April 20-22 Backpacking at Sam Houston National Forest
You can see the trip detail here: http://www.thewoodsproject.org/program-calendar/
We depend 100% on our volunteers to come out with us and have a great time along with the students. Our volunteers come from all walks of life and range in age from 22 to 78 years old. All that we ask of volunteers is that they are willing to come out, enjoy the outdoors and share their stories with our students.
The students do most of the tasks such as cooking and cleaning so volunteers are really there to supervise and be mentors. We provide all of the gear and food for the weekend so all you have to bring are your personal clothes and an open mind. Some of our volunteers have years of experience in the outdoors and some have never slept in a tent. We are flexible and want to work with you to make sure you have a great time giving back to the community. Our volunteers often tell us that they grow just as much as the students while on our trips.
If you are interested in becoming our Weekend Trip Volunteer, please fill out the online application http://www.thewoodsproject.org/why-volunteer/
or email susie@theWoodsProject.org
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Two million children die each year from water-borne illnesses that could be largely stopped by safe , clean water.Water Foundation will have a Fundraising Event November 3rd 2016
at Box House : 124 S Washington St. Pioneer Square, Seattle
100% of donations going to provide water purification units to country of your choice: Moldova, Swaziland, Caribbean, Cambodia, India
Need volunteers to help provide services to our guests ( greetings, seating etc.)
Available Shifts
| Shift Name | Signup Max | Start | End |
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| General | 4 | n/a | n/a |
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At KBOO, we have a dynamic community of 500 volunteers doing everything from front desk work, janitorial work, community reporting, hosting information booths, clerical support, news writing, documentary making, engineering live music, operating sound boards, engineering and computer help, website upkeep, and many, many other things.Learn about how to take your first steps into the wide world of KBOO volunteerism by attending our general orientation! No need to RSVP, but please contact Ani Haines if you have any questions: volunteer@kboo.org.
Available Shifts
| Shift Name | Signup Max | Start | End |
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| General | no limit | n/a | n/a |
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Open Doors tackles food insecurity in Burlington through free community programming.Open Doors has a Community Supper and Seniors Lunch that provide over 10,000 meals a year.
Open Doors serves 450 families a month and provides 7 days of food each visit to the Community Market. Our Community Garden produces food to support both the meals and market during the growing season and boasts a living fence for access to fresh food at all times.
Community kitchens operate year round at Open Doors, with a special "What's for Dinner?" program to share food literacy skills and build new skills in reducing food waste.
All volunteers are supported and trained in good food handling skills and must comply with Public Health and Safety regulations.
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Capture images and videos of Atlantic Forest fauna and flora for use in eBooks, documentaries, education programs and ethology studies. You can join our biologists and photographers on active search expeditions as well as analyze footage from the OBBIO camera network. Moreover, individuals with editing, producing and directing skills can support in the production of videos and documentaries.The Observatory for Biodiversity (OBBIO) - is a network of video cameras that record the fauna and flora 24 hours a day, generating films and content for use in research and education. The dream is to make wildlife monitoring accessible to everyone by placing it online allowing with anyone interest to participate in conservation efforts. Moreover, if the model works and other NGO, National Parks and Research Institutes use the same technology they can link their networks to transfer images, videos and knowledge seemlessly. Therefore OBBIO also seeks to establish partnerships with individuals, businesses and institutions wishing to conduct online monitoring of fauna and flora in other regions of the country. Our videos have been used on the Discovery Channel and are regularly published on our YouTube channel. People interested in adding content to the database or can put the content to good use in clips, documentaries or magizine publications are welcome. Anyone with editing or digital ar skills would be of great help also.
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Volunteers can help with raising international awareness about the Institute and developing our communications by:1) Improving the website - web design, additional content, website translations 2) Social media - targeted messaging, blogs, facebook posts 3) Creating videos - to recuit volunteers, display our infrastructure and inform people about our work 4) Attempting to attract more volunteers by posting adverts, like this one, on various volunteer websites 5) Contacting universities to organize courses or set up agreements to develop our internship program 6) Promoting and marketing our Ebooks on biodiversity and wildlife 7) Developing and implementing strategies to increase funds by partnering with institutions, companies and other NGO´s 8) Helping us acquire donated equipment such as audio recording equipment that can help develop our research projects 9) Write grants 10) Find new ways to secure the financial sustainability of our organization
Ensuring the long-term financial sustainability of the NGO is critical to the longevity of existing programs and can allow us to develop new projects.
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Our gardener, Rafael, always needs help maintaining the grounds, trails, animal enclosures, vegetable patch and microclimate greenhouse so if you are interested in getting your hands dirty then we always have a job for you.- Trails: we have a couple of trails around the reserve which will need to maintained for visits. Grabbing a machete, you will cut back any plants that are intrusively in the way or are prickly.
- Animal Enclosures: we have a turtle tank and an aquarium which we will need help cleaning, fixing or expanding.
- The Grounds: the reserve is 60 hectares so we need to ensure it is in good condition and looks presentable to the general public who visits.
- The Microclimate Greenhouse: we have a greenhouse which has various frogs living in it. Help maintaining the infrastructure and the plants with the greenhouse would be great.
- Vegetable and Herb Patch: we want to expand the patch so we can produce our own food for our staff and volunteers. Setting up infrastructure is essential as we also want this area to be a place where people can sit on benches or do picnics. Planting and watering will also be required and any experience with organic farming would be great as all our produce uses zero pestacides.
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IPBio offers various research assistant roles that cover a wide range of topics but are all related studying the biology of fauna and flora. Below are some example of research areas we offer:- Frog Biodiversity: IPBio wishes to understand the distribution of amphibians, understand their reproductive habits, track species composition and well-being as well as potential find new species. IPBio has 6 different sites each with 5 pitfalls. Volunteers will need to open the pitfalls for 48 hours and visit the sites to collect data such as species, photograph, size, any diseases found or other relevant information for statistical analysis. There is also active nocturnal search that can be conducted on the reserve.
- Mammal Monitoring: IPBio uses two methods to capture images of mammals for research, namely OBBIO and bushnell camera traps. OBBio is a network of video cameras that record the fauna and flora 24 hours a day. We also have 3 bushnell camera traps which film in full HD. This footage is used for eBooks, documentaries, research and to produce educational material. The volunteer is responsible for setting up the cameras and placing bait in order to attract a variety of different species and ensure that each site is cleared of obstacles, such as a branches, so that our we capture quality videos of the animals in action. The volunteer then looks at the footage and notes down the time and species (as well as any further details required) at the monitoring station. The videos will then be saved onto the image bank and sorted by group with the appropriate titles in the following format: “Group; scientific name; popular name; notes (such as nest); name of photographer; institute name; date”. Depending on the length of stay, the volunteer can develop a research focus and analyze the data as well.
- Botanical Research: IPBio wishes to create a digital herbarium on our website of Atlantic Forest flora. Moreover, we wish to add descriptions with important scientific information, such as germination periods, so the volunteer will need to perform tests in the lab.
- Independent Research: Volunteers can decide their own focus of study, however, IPBio has the right to reject research proposals. The volunteer must submit a research plan prior to arrival at IPBio.
