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Business Skills Needed in International Humanitarian Work NGOAbroad is looking for volunteers in the following areas: 1. MICRO-FINANCE: Rwanda, Costa Rica, Morocco, Tanzania, (India in the making) Micro-finance is still an important ticket out of poverty. Help micro-enterprises succeed so they can pay back loan; or work with the Finance or organizational aspect of MFI. Rwanda has a very sophisticated MFI; Costa Rica has an extraordinary director: hilarious and gracious. 2. ENTREPRENEURSHIP/ SMALL ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT: Uganda, Tanzania, & Sri Lanka The focus of international development is helping women (primarily) generate income: whether by sewing, making shoes, exporting spices in Sri Lanka, or with AIDS patients in Tanzania. The challenge is dreaming up enterprises that women that have been excluded from education can do; and then mentoring and guiding them in the small business skills necessary to succeed. 3. UGANDA: TEACH Accounting, Auditing, Economics &/or Entrepreneurship It is unusual to find any place in Africa that trains people in small business skills, so this vocational school is visionary. The shift in Africa is away from hand-outs to hand-ups. You need not have teaching experience; on-the-ground experience is equally valuable. 4. WOMEN & BUSINESS: Nepal, Thai - Burma & Ecuador Help Nepali women that have been trafficked to India then rescued learn alternative livelihood skills. Help Burmese refugee seamstresses market their products more widely. Help Ecuadorian indigenous market and sell their weavings and crafts. 5. MENTORING YOUTH: Peru, Bolivia, & Honduras In the high, dry Andes, it is hard to eke out a living. Peasants flock to the cities looking for work. There is none. The children of these families shine shoes for a living, to feed the family. Help these youth have a brighter future by teaching them additional ways of earning a living. 6. RWANDA: Managing cooperatives Many people will tell you that Rwanda has transformed since the genocide 20 years ago; that Rwanda is a model for development; that it has a people centered government that cares about the people. After much reconciliation work, it was decided that the next step in healing the nation was for Huti and Tutsi to work side-by-side in cooperatives. If you know anything about cooperatives, you are needed in Rwanda! 7. DEVELOPING AN ENTERPRISE TO FUND GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATIONS: many sites When I meet with grassroots organizations all over the world, many ask for help with funding. I tell them: Rather than depend on fickle grants or fund-raising, develop an enterprise that will sustain your organization. Our Domestic Violence program in Uganda had already thought of this: these will breed their 150 chickens up to 3,000. They have done market survey and there is a tremendous need for eggs. Africa needs more of this kind of thinking. The crisis most places is a lack of imagination and entrepreneurial spirit. If you have such imagination, we need you! Both seasoned professionals & students needed. Interested? Please read NGOabroad website ngoabroad/ and send answered Questionnaire and resume to: info@NGOabroad These are volunteer opportunities. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
Posted on: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 15:50:33 +0000

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