VOLUNTEER LINKS
RESOURCES IN JAPANESE
Peace Lesson Websites
Volunteering Information
GENERAL
www.oxfam.org.uk
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Oxfam International - Whichever challenge you choose, it'll be the
trip of a lifetime!
www.roomtoread.org
- Room To Read – providing education to under-privileged children.
www.peaceboat.org
- The Peace Boat – A Japan-based international NGO. Peace Boat's
Global English/Espanol Training (GET) Programme is now accepting
applications for English and Spanish language instructors and
recruiting English/Japanese and Spanish/Japanese interpreters. For
information/application pack
Click Here
www.vfp.org -
Volunteers for Peace
www.volunteer.org.nz
- Global Volunteer Network
www.yuvaindia.org
- Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action
www.wwoof.org
- World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF)
www.volunteerforum.se
- Volunteer Forum is a on-line community for both Volunteers and Organizations, in English and Swedish.
TEACHING GLOBAL AWARENESS
The UN's CyberSchoolBus - a Curriculum of peace projects, facts on
world hunger, human rights & a Community of international events to
join!
www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/index.html
Traveling Ed - Bring the World into your classroom. Free teaching
plans!
www.travelinged.org
And the most amazing, well-written magazine in Japan – Kyoto Journal
www.kampo.co.jp/kyoto-journal/index.html
JET PROGRAMME or JAPAN-RELATED LINKS
www.ajet.net -
AJET
www.jetprogramme.org
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The JET Programme
www.jetsetjapan.com
- JetSet Japan
www.habitat.org - Habitat for Humanity
www.beejapan.org – BEE Ride every summer!
www.foodbankjapan.org – Food Bank. Please donate!
ACTIVISM
www.truthout.com -
the real story
www.commondreams.org -
fighting propaganda
www.adbusters.org/home - AdBusters
www.indymedia.org - Your Independent Media Guide
www.behindthelabel.org - Stop Sweatshops!
www.nologo.org - learn a lot, get upset, become involved
www.democracynow.org - Democracy Now
THE PEACE MOVEMENT
www.moveon.org - Move On. Join in the worldwide movement for peace
www.amnesty.org - Amnesty International
www.codepinkalert.org -
Women for Peace
www.icbl.org - Ban Landmines
www.warchild.ca - War Child Canada
THE ENVIRONMENT
www.savebiogems.org - Earn Action Credits and help save these many
precious biogems
www.activism.net/environment - help out our planet
www.greenpeaceusa.org - Green Peace
www.tourdafrique.com - check out Tour D’Afrique, a bike race like no
other happening as we speak! A human-powered, educational,
eye-opening, stunningly scenic adventure.
www.geocities.com/green_in_japan/efiles.html – EcoSIG, run by English
teachers in Japan
www.geocities.com/ecosig_2000/waribashionweb.htm – Anti-Waribashi
Campaign!
www.volunteerpeten.com - Diverse opportunities in Guatemala.
SOUTHEAST ASIA
Cambodia
www.garella.com/rich/campage.htm – resource for political updates and
NGOs
www.khmer440.com – job opps and travel logs
www.cambodiatrust.org.uk - Cambodia Trust
www.cambodiakids.org - in Japanese
India
www.youthreachindia.org/index.asp - Based in Delhi, Youthreach is an
endeavour to connect people from diverse backgrounds and create
programmes that make transformation possible, through direct
participation and change.
Thailand
www.crossculturalsolutions.org/thailand/ - check out volunteer
projects
www.generation-journey.org - Generation Journey, a British
Charity. Contact Andy at
pan@generation-journey.org
Mongolia
www.crtp.net - help with cultural restoration projects in Nepal and
Mongolia
Papua New Guinea
www.tomorrowsforest.com/ - Waria Valley Children's Project
TEACHING RESOURCES
Connect with Pen Pals for your students from all over the globe.
www.zen.org/~brendan/kids-pen.html
www.mylanguageexchange.com/penpals.asp
www.passportschool.info
ESL JOBS and RESOURCES
www.eslcafe.com/joblist/ - Dave’s ESL Cafe
www.eltnews.com/home.shtml - ELT
TRAVEL
www.lonelyplanet.com
- LP
www.nationalgeographic.com - the distinguished magazine
www.globalfreeloaders.com - be a freeloader. It’s fun!
www.jnto.go.jp/eng - Japan’s National Tourism Board
www.nepal.com - all you need to know on Nepal
www.bangladesh.com - come to Bangladesh
EXTRAS
www.un.org/millenniumgoals/index.shtml – The United Nations
www.ani-difranco.net - Ani Difranco, singer songwriter and political
activist
www.thebreastcancersite.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/CTDSites - Support
Breast Cancer Research
www.cafepress.com - Create Go M.A.D. themed t-shirts, hoodies,
calendars, and more!
www.volunteersouthamerica.net non-commercial site linking
back-packers and travelers to free volunteering in South America
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