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Learning Service

Author : Claire Bennett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781912157068
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Learning Service written by Claire Bennett and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This year, over ten million people will go abroad, eager to find the perfect blend of adventure and altruism. Volunteer travel can help you find your place in the world--and find out what you're made of. So why do so many international volunteer programs fail to make an impact? Why do some do more harm than good? Learning Service offers a powerful new approach that invites volunteers to learn from host communities before trying to 'help' them. It's also a thoughtful critique of the sinister side of volunteer travel; a guide for turning good intentions into effective results; and essential advice on how to make the most of your experience."--Amazon.com.

International Voluntary Service

Author : Luis Amorim
Publisher : Council of Europe
ISBN 13 : 9789287155689
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book International Voluntary Service written by Luis Amorim and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: T-Kits (Training kits) are a product of the Partnership Agreement on European Youth Worker Training run by the CoE and the European Communities Commission

Accounting for the Varieties of Volunteering

Author : Riccardo Guidi
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030705463
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Accounting for the Varieties of Volunteering written by Riccardo Guidi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-07 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a long time, volunteering lacked standardized data sets allowing methodologically robust comparative analyses and global policy making. Starting from 2011, the International Labour Office (ILO) and the United Nations (UN) have provided global statistical standards for organization-based and direct volunteering which offer path-breaking opportunities. The global statistical standards on volunteering are however only relatively known. They also have to face difficult methodological and substantial challenges: Can they really account for the local varieties of volunteering in the different areas of the world? Does their adoption further develop our knowledge of volunteering both at national and international level? Beyond illustrating which innovations these statistical standards bring and critically assessing the tensions between the global guidelines and the local differences, the book shows how the ILO and the UN standards can be implemented into national statistics and which advancements in the understanding of characters, antecedents and impacts of contemporary organization-based and direct volunteering they allow. The Volume takes Italy as an illustrative case that offers global value. This multidisciplinary book demonstrates that a holistic approach to the implementation of the ILO and UN guidelines permits to virtuously balance international statistical standards and locally embedded cultures as well as to move knowledge of volunteering forward in a complexity-driven agenda. The book provides tools, evidences and inspiration for scholars, statistical agencies, practitioners and policy-makers.

Ours to Explore

Author : Pippa Biddle
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1640124772
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Ours to Explore written by Pippa Biddle and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a 2014 essay that went viral, Pippa Biddle revealed the inequities and absurdities baked into voluntourism--the pairing of short-term, unskilled volunteer work with tourism. In the years since, Biddle has devoted herself to understanding the origins, intentions, and outcomes of a multibillion-dollar industry built on the premise of doing good, and she tracks that investigation in Ours to Explore. The flaws of voluntourism have included xenophobia, racism, paternalism, and a "West knows best" mentality. From exploitative orphanages that keep children in squalid conditions to attract donors to undertrained medical volunteers practicing their skills on patients in developing regions and to those looking for an inspiring selfie, Biddle reveals the hidden costs of the voluntourism complex. Along the way, readers meet inspiring activists and passionate community members, as well as thoughtful former voluntourists who still work to make a difference--just differently. Ours to Explore offers a plan for how the service-based travel industry can break the cycle of exploitation and suggests strategies for travelers who want to improve the places they visit for the long haul.

Hoping to Help

Author : Judith N. Lasker
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501703846
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Hoping to Help written by Judith N. Lasker and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-19 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overseas volunteering has exploded in numbers and interest in the last couple of decades. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people travel from wealthier to poorer countries to participate in short-term volunteer programs focused on health services. Churches, universities, nonprofit service organizations, profit-making "voluntourism" companies, hospitals, and large corporations all sponsor brief missions. Hoping to Help is the first book to offer a comprehensive assessment of global health volunteering, based on research into how it currently operates, its benefits and drawbacks, and how it might be organized to contribute most effectively. Given the enormous human and economic investment in these activities, it is essential to know more about them and to understand the advantages and disadvantages for host communities. Most people assume that poor communities benefit from the goodwill and skills of the volunteers. Volunteer trips are widely advertised as a means to "give back" and "make a difference." In contrast, some claim that health volunteering is a new form of colonialism, designed to benefit the volunteers more than the host communities. Others focus on unethical practices and potential harm to the presumed "beneficiaries." Judith N. Lasker evaluates these opposing positions and relies on extensive research—interviews with host country staff members, sponsor organization leaders, and volunteers, a national survey of sponsors, and participant observation—to identify best and worst practices. She adds to the debate a focus on the benefits to the sponsoring organizations, benefits that can contribute to practices that are inconsistent with what host country staff identify as most likely to be useful for them and even with what may enhance the experience for volunteers. Hoping to Help illuminates the activities and goals of sponsoring organizations and compares dominant practices to the preferences of host country staff and to nine principles for most effective volunteer trips.

Volunteer Economies

Author : Ruth Prince
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1847011403
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Volunteer Economies written by Ruth Prince and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the increasing significance of the volunteer and volunteerism in African societies, and their societal impact within precarious economies in a period of massive unemployment and faltering trajectories of social mobility.

T-Kit No. 5 – International voluntary service

Author : Tony Geudens
Publisher : Council of Europe
ISBN 13 : 9287178283
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (871 download)

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Download or read book T-Kit No. 5 – International voluntary service written by Tony Geudens and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1998, the Council of Europe and the European Commission decided to take common action in the field of youth. Both institutions initiated a partnership agreement with the aim "to promote active European citizenship and civil society by giving impetus to the training of youth leaders and youth workers working within a European dimension". In 2003, additional agreements were signed in the fields of "youth research" and "Euro-Mediterranean youth co-operation". Since 2005, the partnership between the European Commission and the Council of Europe in the field of youth activities has focused on the following topics: European citizenship, human rights education and intercultural dialogue, quality and recognition of youth work and training, better understanding and knowledge of youth and youth policy development. The partnership between the European Commission and the Council of Europe in the field of youth brings together the two institutions' experience in non-formal education, youth policy, youth research and youth work practice. Activities organised within its framework gather representatives of those areas who share their knowledge and experience for the benefit of enhancing evidence-based policy, practice, quality and recognition of youth work and training. Results and other material are made available on the partnership website (http://youth-partnership-eu.coe.int) and in various publications, including the Training Kits (T-Kits). T-Kits are thematic publications written by experienced youth trainers and experts and constitute easy-to-use handbooks for educational activities. All activities and publications enhance the exchange of experience and good practice between the actors involved and contribute to the implementation of the political objectives of both partner institutions.

Finding Pete

Author : Jill Hunting
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819570864
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Finding Pete written by Jill Hunting and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two days after Jill Hunting turned fifteen, she lost her only brother, a volunteer with International Voluntary Services and one of the first civilian casualties of the Vietnam War. News broadcasts and headlines announced to the world that Pete had been led into an ambush by friends. When Jill’s mother told her that Pete’s letters home had all been destroyed in a basement flood, the connection between Jill and her brother was lost forever—or so she thought. Decades later, 175 letters surfaced. Through them, and the sweethearts and many friends who had never forgotten Pete, Jill came to know him again. Finding Pete is one of the great, untold true stories of an escalating war and a young man caught in its sights. This personalized account of a critical moment in U.S. history is the moving story of an altruistic youth who personifies what America lost in Vietnam. It is also a portrait of a family’s struggle with loss, a mother’s damaging grief, and, most of all, a sister’s quest to solve a mystery and recover the connection with her brother. Includes a reader’s guide.

Insights on International Volunteering

Author : Rebecca Tiessen
Publisher : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft
ISBN 13 : 9783848740833
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Insights on International Volunteering written by Rebecca Tiessen and published by Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special issue aims to validate the voices of southern partners in communities where international volunteering takes place. The collection deals with nine countries from the Global South: Peru, Guatemala, Jamaica, Costa Rica, Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, South Africa and India. Its individual chapters embody a distinctive approach that aims to decentre critical perspective by representing subaltern voices. The study's data is drawn from 212 individual interviews and 21 focus groups, and its findings are couched within critical and normative theories, which offer alternative views to the often dominant critical constructions that frame dialogue on international volunteering. This approach presents these stories and interpretations in a way that better situates the voices of the host organisation and community staff within historical, political, social and economic reality.

Army Fatigues

Author : Mark Werner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Army Fatigues written by Mark Werner and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Army Fatigues chronicles the authors experience of a volunteer in Israel during some of the most stressful (Intifada) years.

Volunteer!

Author : Council on International Educational Exchange
Publisher : Council on International Education Exchange
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Volunteer! written by Council on International Educational Exchange and published by Council on International Education Exchange. This book was released on 1992 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Palgrave Handbook of Volunteering, Civic Participation, and Nonprofit Associations

Author : David Horton Smith
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137263172
Total Pages : 1505 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Volunteering, Civic Participation, and Nonprofit Associations written by David Horton Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-18 with total page 1505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by over 200 leading experts from over seventy countries, this handbook provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the latest theory and research on volunteering, civic participation and nonprofit membership associations. The first handbook on the subject to be truly multinational and interdisciplinary in its authorship, it represents a major milestone for the discipline. Each chapter follows a rigorous theoretical structure examining definitions, historical background, key analytical issues, usable knowledge, and future trends and required research. The nine parts of the handbook cover the historical and conceptual background of the discipline; special types of volunteering; the major activity areas of volunteering and associations; influences on volunteering and association participation; the internal structures of associations; the internal processes of associations; the external environments of associations; the scope and impacts of volunteering and associations; and conclusions and future prospects. This handbook provides an essential reference work for third-sector research and practice, including a valuable glossary of terms defining over eighty key concepts. Sponsored by the International Council of Voluntarism, Civil Society, and Social Economy Researcher Associations (ICSERA; www.icsera.org), it will appeal to scholars, policymakers and practitioners, and helps to define the emergent academic discipline of voluntaristics.

Moon Volunteer Vacations in Latin America

Author : Amy E. Robertson
Publisher : Moon Travel
ISBN 13 : 1612386423
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book Moon Volunteer Vacations in Latin America written by Amy E. Robertson and published by Moon Travel. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moon Volunteer Vacations in Latin America is the ultimate guide to the best volunteer experiences available in Latin America. Seasoned volunteer Amy E. Robertson shares her own expertise while inspiring readers to choose the right volunteer placement for their specific interests. Broken into chapters based on destination, the book gives a comprehensive overview of the best programs offered in each country and includes helpful information about housing, program costs, placement length, and much more. The countries covered include Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina, and Chile. Robertson also shares ideas for fundraising, as well as additional sources of information on volunteering, travel, and the various destinations. From discovering the best times to go to navigating the application process to figuring out what to take, this guidebook prepares readers for all aspects of their volunteer experience, whether they're preparing a turtle hatchery in Costa Rica, teaching English in Mexico, or building a home in Brazil. Moon Volunteer Vacations in Latin America is a must-have for anyone looking to get involved abroad.

Voluntary Organisations and Public Service Delivery

Author : Ian Cunningham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415874734
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (158 download)

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Download or read book Voluntary Organisations and Public Service Delivery written by Ian Cunningham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume draws together a team of expert contributors to explore how the process of outsourcing is impacting the internal and external labour markets of voluntary organisations, and the implications for the policy objectives underlying the externalisation of the delivery of public services to them.

Worldwide Volunteering

Author :
Publisher : How To Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781857039108
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Worldwide Volunteering written by and published by How To Books Ltd. This book was released on 2004 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates the enormous range of opportunites that exist around the world. There is something for everyone. - from the Foreword by Richard Branson

Viet Nam; the Unheard Voices

Author : Don Luce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Viet Nam; the Unheard Voices written by Don Luce and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

International Perspectives on Voluntary Action

Author : David Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781844079308
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (793 download)

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Download or read book International Perspectives on Voluntary Action written by David Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a fresh perspective on the third sector organizations. This title explores the similarities, differences and growing connections between non-governmental organizations in both Northern and Southern contexts. It considers the differences in scale and priority that exist between the different types of third sector in different settings.