Description:
We are offering short-term voluntary projects (workcamps) focusing on:
* Charity work with orphans and children from underprivileged and disadvantaged background
* Environmental protection
* Social services including recreation and care programs for children, elderly and people with special needs
* Restoration and conservation work
* Any other volunteer actions with social impact
Highlights:
FEDI-Haiti understands the importance of service to the poor, and we want to help those who have been led to contribute their time and talents. If you have a strong interest in volunteering to help the poor overseas, volunteer with us in Haiti!
Qualifications / Skills Needed:
There is a wide variety of different volunteer short term projects. They include mainly one of the following types of activities:
* Work with orphans and other socially disadvantaged children
* Teaching English, Work in a medical or dental clinic, ecology, gardening and forestry
* Renovation and restoration of social, cultural, historic sites
* Sustainable development (rural clinics, schools and home for the disadvantaged)
Choose a volunteer project according to your interests, skills and area in which you wish to contribute.
In each short term project the charity work activities' duration is up to 8 hours a day, five days a week. This work is voluntary. No special skills, experience or knowledge are needed. The activities carried out are always respective of each participant's physical abilities. Don't be afraid to try doing something different, something which you haven't experienced before. Technical leaders in each project lead the working process and constantly monitor the safety of volunteers. The common work is foreseen as a way for getting better understanding, building friendship and also as a good example of awareness of the problems.
Language:
English
Cost in US$: 400 - 1400.00 (1-4) week(s) *Contact us for 2 months or longer.
Cost Includes:
Food,
Housing,
In-country orientation/Training,
In-country staff support,
Registration fees
and Travel while in host country
One third of the money is used to fund our projects. Program costs support our host community economies in the forms of project materials purchases, local salaries, housing, food and local transportation in Haiti.
Salary / Pay: No!
Experience Required: no
Typical Volunteer Projects:
adult education,
building maintenance,
childcare/children,
clerical and office work,
community centers,
computer training,
cooking,
culture,
drug or alcohol recovery,
elderly,
English teaching,
food,
health,
health care,
homelessness,
hospital,
housing,
literacy,
medicine,
micro-enterprise,
nursing,
nutrition,
office work,
organizational development,
orphans,
population issues,
primary education,
relief,
repairs,
sanitation,
secretarial,
social services, social work,
street kids,
teaching,
technical assistance,
translation,
volunteering,
writing,
youth development
and youth ministry
Age Range: 13-75
This Program is open to
American,
Asian,
Australian,
Canadian,
European,
Kiwi,
South African
and Worldwide
Participants.
This Program is also open to
Families, Couples and Individuals.
Typical Living Arrangements:
Apartment/Flat,
Dormitory,
Group living
and Home-stays
Participants Travel to Haiti
Independently
Or
in Groups
Typically Participants Work
Independently
Or
in Groups of 5-30
Application Process Involves:
Typically The Application Process Time Is 3 days
Force d'Entraide et de Developpement Integre's Mission Statement: Wherever possible, our work is not to sustain the needy, but rather to break the cycle of poverty that plagues them. By providing educational opportunities and by focusing on community development, we strive to make impoverished individuals and villages self-supporting.
(1) Food for hungry families and schoolchildren
(2) Literacy for underprivileged children and women
(3) Health care projects
(4) Care and education for orphans and other vulnerable children
(5) Water projects (wells, aqueducts) to parched villages
(6) Housing for the homeless
(7) Micro-enterprise programs for poor families
(8) Emergency relief from natural disasters
(9) Leadership development
(10) Capacity building
(11) Agriculture.
And many other projects and programs to relieve suffering and raise the quality of life for the disadvantaged people in the Haiti.
Year Founded: 1990