Overseas Volunteering
Yn Gymraeg
Would you like to experience volunteering overseas?
Platform 2 are running a scheme where 18 to 25 year olds, who wouldn’t normally have the opportunity to travel overseas, are funded by the Department for International Development to go for 10 weeks.
They are looking for young people from Wales to take part in the scheme and encourage you to get in touch for further information. You could go to Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Peru, India or Nepal.
Volunteering work includes working with local teams on projects such as constructing community buildings like schools, toilet facilities and community centres; renovating existing buildings; developing new and existing gardens, play areas and sports pitches; caring for and teaching children in orphanages, kindergartens and schools; building infrastructure at ecological centres and helping community school groups to learn about protecting the environment.
You will travel in groups of 12 to 16 people and stay in local family homes or dormitories.
You will be encouraged to share your story with people when you get back home in whatever way suits you, it could be writing, poetry, music, art, photography, dance or some other way.
Visit www.myplatform2.com for further information and to apply online. The scheme runs until the end of 2010.
