AT-HOME & ABROAD
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
DIAMOND:
Head volunteer excursions to orphanages around the world. Meet with local
media to generate volunteers and donors. Plan and organize orphanage
projects.
PLATINUM VOLUNTEER:
Head our blog and plan web events and interviews with donors and volunteers
to put on blog. Blog the internet to spread the word about WWO. Help plan
our WWO Local & National Conventions.
GOLD VOLUNTEER:
While validating orphanages also capture orphanage news events, orphanage
projects, write articles for WWO.
SILVER VOLUNTEER
Help to validate orphanages doing research for WWO.
BRONZE VOLUNTEER
Help advance this effort by searching the web and sending us lists of
orphanages.
Volunteers can join our live conference call once a month to find new
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DONORS
Many people who cannot
afford the time to volunteer prefer to become a donor. Either a one-time
donation or monthly or annual contribution signifies the desire to
help orphans around the world. Donors levels range from full to
part-time, from contributory to supportive. Each donor must determine
their own level of involvement based on their desires and financial
abilities. WWO appreciates all contributions whether it's web research,
on-site volunteers or cash donors. YOU make this project possible!
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CURRENT URGENT PROJECTS
TWO SISTERS WATER TANK (So. Africa)
$200 is urgently needed to purchase a water tank for the Orphans with
AIDS house which houses and cares for children dying from the HIV virus.
The house is positioned on a hill and has no running water. The
caretakers must walk miles and carry buckets when they should be
spending every minute with these children during their remaining days on
earth. Please help us!
To donate directly contact Patrick at
www.twosisters.org.za
WATER TANK FOR SWAZI SCHOOL
Over 22 of the 39 children who attend this school are orphans. The
teacher herself is a widow with six children and receives no pay for her
services at the school. The school was build by a generous English woman
who has since left Swaziland. If you could send books or school
supplies, donate toward the water tank or offer some monatery assistance
to this wonderful woman who works so hard for these sad children, it
would be fantastic! The school does have a bank account where money can
be transferred.
TIBET ORPHANAGE PROJECT
On the outskirts of Xining there is an operation set up by a Tibetan
teacher to provide shelter and schooling to Tibetan orphans. They call
it an orphanage, but it operates out of a few run down buildings with
only one donor to get rice for the children. The children work at
harvest time and also make Thankas to sell in order to get money to
survive. Sponsors are urgently needed. Also any volunteers who could
fund raise for money for a building, or volunteers who could go there
and teach English. Xining is very cheap to stay. There is a great hostel
not too far from the orphanage. Even volunteers who could paint or just
entertain the children would be greatly appreciated.
SCHOOL FEES FOR TIBETAN ORPHAN
She became an orphan when her father died. In China, although it is
"communism", school is not free. In fact, at $300-$400 per year it costs
more than most Tibetans annual income! Her grandfather had been selling
off his goats to put her through school until now. He's out of goats.
She desperately wants to go to college, but she has to graduate high
school first. To her, this seems highly unlikely. She sees her future as
a "struggling to eat" enterprise. She knows she will need to support her
other family members, but without an education, a Chinese education,
she'll be lucky to get a job growing rice. Because she is very bright, a
Tibetan I know asked me to find her a sponsor. It's about $800 for the
next year to get her out of high school. There is no obligation, but the
donor would obviously wish to begin a relationship with this student and
we hope she might make it through college and enjoy some opportunity. If
you'd be interested, I can put you in direct contact with my Tibetan
friend who knows this girl and he can get her to email you. There is
email available in most towns in China (what used to be Tibet), although
regulated. Please contact me if you would like to help this girl.
So. Africa
Private Orphanage
When I was in So. Africa I was lucky enough to visit this wonderful
"home grown" orphanage near Cape Town. The woman and her husband, after
being asked to take someone else's baby, decided to dedicate their
lives, their home and their money to helping unwanted children. It's a
tough affair. Although registered with the state, she gets no financial
assistance. She keeps under 24 children. Without private donations,
she'd be in big trouble feeding all these mouths. I spoke with her at
length and found one of the most charming and sincere women I've ever
met. Her good heart radiated from her eyes. With some donor money, I
left her enough for a month of food. She doesn't know I'm posting this,
but she is a deserving recipient of my efforts and any donors
contribution. Abandoned children in So. Africa don't deserve to face the
world alone. With people like her, some of them can enjoy a real family.
If we help, we can make the world a better place, one starfish at a
time.
more projects will be listed soon
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