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Volunteer Group Projects
(For Individual Volunteer Programs, click here)
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Each year, GIVE INTERNATIONAL organizes a few group projects for 12-20 volunteers who would like a shorter, team experience. These group projects are an excellent way to make a tangible difference in some of GIVE's education, health, and child development programs alongside a group of like-minded individuals.
East African Group Projects:
Dates: To be announced (approx. 17-19 days)
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Financial Information: In order to help off-set the costs of operating our programs, a donation to GIVE INTERNATIONAL will help pay GIVE's cost of sending you on this trip. The size of the donation varies according to the length of the placement, and includes a donation to the local partners that you are volunteering with. This donation is eligible for a tax receipt.
Tentative Itinerary for the Group Health and Development projects to East Africa:
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Day 1: |
Fly Toronto - London Heathrow |
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Day 2: |
Fly London Heathrow - Uganda/Kenya |
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Day 3: |
Stay in capital city at local guesthouse
Orientation, Project Briefing |
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Days 4-7: |
Drive out to first project site (1 hour drive)
Stay in local guesthouse or in community member's homes (optional)
Assist with GIVE's health and development projects.
Assist with school feedings, HIV/AIDS orphans, school drama presentations, youth counseling initiatives, youth sports tournaments, and construction/painting projects.
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Days 8-11: |
Drive to second project site (3 hours)
Assist with GIVE's education projects. Volunteer at HIV/AIDS orphanage, children's programs, sports programs, teaching, counseling, therapeutic feeding programs, teach primary health care.
Sleep and eat at the orphanage |
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Days 12-15: |
Drive to third project site (2 hours)
Assist with GIVE's health and development projects.
Assist with painting schools, volunteering in orphanages, organizing sports tournaments, co-ordinate various community initiatives. |
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Days 16-17: |
Debrief at National Park, tenting in Safari Camp, Game drive, river boat tour, debriefing exercises, "reverse-culture shock" awareness, project assessment/evaluation. |
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Day 18: |
Drive back to capital city.
Transfer to Airport.
Fly from Uganda/Kenya - London Heathrow |
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Day 19: |
Fly from London Heathrow - Toronto (time change) |
What's Included?
Project donation includes round-trip airfare, trip cancellation / medical insurance, all accommodations, all meals, experienced trip leader, domestic transportation, safari, and financial contribution to GIVE projects.
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Why are GIVE volunteers encouraged to fundraise?
GIVE INTERNATIONAL'S volunteer programs support our international programs (schools, clinics, orphanages, etc.) in East Africa through matching volunteers' skills with the worthwhile and meaningful projects that need them.
GIVE volunteers play an important and pivotal role in our projects' success and sustainability through contributing to the projects directly. Therefore, volunteers are encouraged to raise the funds needed to help off-set these program costs. A donation to GIVE INTERNATIONAL will help pay GIVE's cost of sending you on this trip.
This way, in addition to being guaranteed a worthwhile and well-organized volunteer placement, you also have access to an experienced support network to help guide you through it.
Through this network, you are able to spend more time making a difference in a real project, and less time organizing the painstaking (and often frustrating) details of your trip.
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