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VMM (The Volunteer Missionary Movement) seeks skilled personnel for overseas programmes in a number of areas.

VMM provides pre-departure orientation training, volunteer allowance, travel insurance, return flight and 24 hour support. 

For more information please contact Eugene, E: Eugene@vmminternational.org, T: 01 6334421 or visit www.vmminternational.org

Viatores Christi requires people for long-term overseas assignments in many countries including Angola, Ghana, Uganda, and Haiti. 

If you would like to help make a difference in the lives of others, have transferable skills, would like to go overseas as a volunteer for one year or more and are comfortable with the Catholic/Christian ethos of Viatores Christi, then this may be for you. 

For further informatio contact Martina, T: 01-8689986, E; viatoreschristi@eircom.net.

Irish Aid is hosting an Overseas Volunteering Fair in the Irish Aid Volunteering and Information Centre, 27-31 Upper O'Connell St., Dublin 1 on Saturday 1st October.

The Volunteering Fair will run from 11am to 4pm including information stands with over 25 long and short-term volunteering organisations participating. There will be presentations from participating organisations every half hour starting at 11am!

Comhlámh will also be there providing information on training and support services available to overseas volunteers before they depart and upon there return!

Comhlámh at the European Year of the Volunteer Roadshow

• Thinking about volunteering overseas?
• Want to find out about the options and issues to consider?
• Considering getting involved in global development from Ireland?
• Interested in knowing more and getting involved in trade justice?

Come and visit Comhlámh at the European Year of the Volunteer Roadshow!!
When: 11am-4pm, Thursday, 25th August
Where:  EU House, Dawson Street, Dublin

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Friday 19 August is World Humanitarian Day!

Concern Worldwide will be hosting a free event in Dublin to give people a chance to meet Concern's aid workers and members of their emergency response team.

The event will take place between 11am and 6pm at The Culture Box (formerly the Temple Bar Information Centre), 12 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2.

Concern staff will be speaking about their experiences of working in some of the world’s poorest countries.

Comhlámh staff will be there too and we're excited to provide firsthand information about a range of issues relating to volunteering and development work.  Make sure to visit our stand and learn how you can get involved.

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VC, founded in 1960, recruits, trains and places people in areas of need overseas.  They do not run their own projects but instead work with their partners – Irish Missionaries, local parishes, communities and NGOs in developing countries. They will be holding information and recruitment sessions at the following locations:

Progressio is an international development organisation working for sustainable development and the eradication of poverty in 11 countries around the world.

They are currently recruiting for an international development worker with experience in risk and disaster management to be placed in Haiti.

The successful applicant will need to: be able to speak French and to have a good grasp of disaster and risk management; be a good communicator and someone with experience in programme and project management. The position is for a year initially, with the possibility of an extension.

For more information go to www.progressio.ie.
Closing date: 22 August, 5 pm.

When a crisis, such as the current famine in the Horn of Africa, hits it is important that the international community and the general public respond quickly and effectively. Financial donations to support the important work of relief organisations are normally the most effective way of doing this.

Volunteering in a crisis-hit region can often create more problems than solutions. Dealing with the complex security and logistical situation is a job best left to trained professionals.

This inspiring project, based in Kibera, Africa's largest slum, in the heart of Nairobi Kenya,  works hard to provide local children with support, education, fun and encouragement. The team are dedicated to bringing joy and hope to these young lives, restoring that which has been lost through disease and poverty.

Could you join this amazing team and use your skills to help bring laughter and learning to the children of Kibera?

Come along to our Volunteering 2011 Info Event and find out about a wide range of International Volunteer projects (from 2weeks to 1 year) which you can be involved with this year through VSI.

We will introduce our projects in

·          Ireland; Europe (east and west); North America; Japan and Australia

·          Africa, Asia and Latin America; Middle East and North Africa

·          Long Term Volunteer Programme

·          Youth programme

·          Local vo Read More »