How teachers and IT professionals can make a difference volunteering abroad.

I’ve been writing a lot lately and I felt readers here, G-lish having a strong focus about changing the world, might like to read some of the stories I’ve written elsewhere. Here are a few excerpts from recent stories.

I did a huge series about volunteering sparked by my memories of the different volunteers I met over the years and the knowledge I’ve gained working in this field now for the past five years. Here are the stories sparked by those memories.

In the story Volunteer Teaching Abroad, I wrote about opportunities related to teaching for both teaching professionals and anyone with a passion for helping out in a school or classroom setting. It was fascinating to research the scope of opportunities available (as it was with all the articles) and truly gave me an urge to hit the road again.

Anyway, here’s an excerpt from Volunteer Teaching Abroad:

“Simply sitting in groups and reading with children, practicing spelling and other basic activities is very motivating for both students and teachers and helps the overall community. Even a volunteers’ presence is enough to encourage students that might stay home to come to school.”

Similarly, I researched an article on volunteer abroad opportunities for IT professionals and found all sorts of interesting projects around the world. If only I actually had IT skills. Anyway, there was a cool one in Mali, as well as in the most unexpected places. Here is an excerpt from IT Professionals Volunteer Travel

“Finding someone to reformat computers without installing viruses or doing a bad installation during a reformatting is rare. Other challenges are that small NGOs do not have enough money to buy basic software needed like the latest MS Office or specialist design software. Many NGOs could seriously do with an “IT makeover.”

When clinics and hospitals go through the process of transforming from paper records to digitalized data on computers, professionals are needed to help this extremely technical and time-consuming process.”

Click on the links to read the full articles. Feel free to email this article to anyone you think might be interested in this! Or, if you know someone who needs a nudge to get out of a rut and experience life, send them this story. It might just do the trick.