For as long as I can remember, volunteering has been an important part of my life. I wanted moving to the Netherlands not to create any exception to this. I continued volunteering with a charity in the UK that I was already active in but I wanted to add something new. Luckily, I found VolunteerMatch. For someone who likes to volunteer, this website can be a bit like a sweet shop as there are SO many opportunities, including for those living abroad. I spent several days looking at the opportunities, narrowing down the ones that were best for me and then picking three. The three organizations that I picked were:
- Aid the Nations – At the moment I am volunteering in their penpal programme, which means that I write back and forth with a few children in Uganda who are orphans and former child soldiers.
- WVeMentoring – I mentor a number of high school students as they work through a career guidance and preparation programme.
- Infinite Family - Infinite Family allows you to become a video mentor to a child in South Africa who has been affected by AIDS. It is quite a lengthy application/training process and requires a year long commitment but the concept and platform they use has been really interesting.
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