Volunteer /Internship & Student Study Tour Program At HEEALS

We Welcome Our New Interns, Nnamdi Ibenegbu From UK And Nahid And Kamrul From Bangladesh .They Are Working On WaSH Research And Documentary Film .   Facebook Page :  https://www.facebook.com/Heeals

International volunteering Melaine Barlow (Tulane University )Volunteer At HEEALS  When  an individual  volunteers  or group of volunteers give their time to work for organizations or cause outside of their home country. In most cases, volunteers work in developing countries on  international development  programmes with local partners that address basic needs such as education, health and sanitation. Trends show that international volunteering has become increasingly popular across many countries over the past few decades. History Formal overseas volunteering can be traced back over one hundred years to when the   British Red Cross   set up the   Voluntary Aid Detachment   (VAD) scheme in 1909. The VAD volunteers, as well as volunteers from many other national Red Cross organisations, worked in battlefields across   Europe   and the   Middle East during   World War I   to treat ...

Volunteering   The verb was first recorded in 1755. It was derived from the noun   volunteer, in   C .1600, "one who offers himself for military service," from the   Middle French voluntaire.   In the non-military sense, the word was first recorded during the 1630s. The word   volunteering   has more recent usage—still predominantly military—coinciding with the phrase   community service. Volunteering as utilized by service learning programs   Many schools on all education levels offer   service-learning , which allow the student to serve a group through volunteering while earning educational credit. Volunteering is a powerful means of preparing students to become more caring and responsible parents and citizens and of helping colleges and universities to make good on their pledge to 'serve society. Volunteering in service learning seems to have the result of engaging both mind and heart, thus providing a more powerful le...