HIV / AIDS Awareness volunteer project
One of the most serious worldwide threats to public health and development is the spread of HIV/AIDS. EMF is a key partner and implementer of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which provides assistance to countries most affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Many Volunteers will contribute to HIV/AIDS initiatives during their service, regardless of their area of expertise. Currently, trains all Volunteers who serve in Africa, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia to be advocates and educators of HIV/AIDS prevention and care. EMF Volunteers help people affected by HIV/AIDS through work in areas such as public health education, community and nongovernmental organizations, and business advising. Volunteers do not provide direct medical care.
HIV/AIDS Volunteers face special challenges. EMF supports its Volunteers with preparation and training to work in an environment of grief and loss.
Below are HIV/AIDS opportunities in each of the primary program areas.
Health
Volunteers provide education and support for communities struggling with the impact of HIV/AIDS.
EMF health Volunteers serve in a broad range of areas, including HIV/AIDS education and prevention. HIV/AIDS Volunteers assist communities that are currently being ravaged socially and economically by the AIDS pandemic. Volunteering in the area of HIV/AIDS offers an opportunity to make a significant difference in the lives of others.
Activities include working in an orphanage with HIV-positive children; implementing programs for at-risk youth; collaborating with faith-based organizations on prevention messages; working at a community HIV center; creating a support group for HIV-positive people; teaching-formally and informally about HIV/AIDS prevention and care; counseling and aiding local residents; and providing nutrition and hygiene education classes in communities.
Education and Youth & Community Development
Volunteers integrate HIV/AIDS education into their roles as teachers and advisors.
Volunteer responsibilities
Education Volunteers have a tremendous impact on community development. Through the relationships they form with students, parents and other community members, Volunteers can plan a variety of outreach programs focusing on HIV/AIDS education. Volunteers can incorporate HIV/AIDS education into regular lesson plans, after-school programs, and school-wide assemblies and activities.
Youth outreach Volunteers bring much-needed HIV/AIDS education to young community members, helping to instill important prevention methods early on. Volunteers train youth as peer educators, coordinate with boys' and girls' camps, lead education and prevention programs targeted toward children, and organize support groups for children orphaned or suffering from HIV/AIDS.
Community development Volunteers are catalysts for change. They are continually engaged in defining their role in response to their host community, which many times includes the responsibility of HIV/AIDS educator. Community development Volunteers may plan and organize HIV/AIDS awareness programs or counsel community members with the disease. Some Volunteers may even be involved in constructing health centers in their communities.
Business and Information & Communication Technology
Volunteers help communities respond to HIV/AIDS with business initiatives and computer resources.
Volunteer Responsibilities
Business Volunteers focus on increasing family income and improving the environment for business, which are often hindered by the presence of HIV/AIDS. Some Volunteers work with development banks, nongovernmental organizations, and municipalities to support local development projects, such as AIDS clinics. Others may help women’s groups write funding proposals to implement programs that teach young mothers about the effect of AIDS on children.
Information technology Volunteers help communities and Organizations Bridge the gap between those with access to advanced technology and those without. Volunteers may work with health ministries to develop community forums concerning HIV/AIDS or they may be involved with programs focused on bringing the Internet into classrooms so students can get information about preventing and treating the disease.
Environment and Agriculture
Volunteers utilize their specialized skills to combat the effects of HIV/AIDS in communities.
Volunteer Responsibilities
Environment Volunteers confront the HIV/AIDS pandemic as a general developmental issue as well and a health issue. Volunteers may educate a community regarding HIV/AIDS treatment in order to prevent the over-harvesting of plants and wildlife believed to cure AIDS. Other Volunteers may work with local communities to develop natural resource-based businesses such as ecotourism and environmentally sound cultivation of medicinal plants, to support AIDS-affected communities.
Agriculture Volunteers use their skills to stabilize food security in communities often crippled by HIV/AIDS. Volunteers may work with communities to increase local food production. Some Volunteers may help mechanize farming systems in order to decrease.
Why Volunteer?
Volunteering offers us an opportunity to see the world through new eyes and to understand it. When we experience different cultures and alternate ways of living, we not only develop an appreciation and compassion for others, but learn to better understand ourselves, and ultimately grow in that understanding.
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The beauty of volunteering lies in the fact that when you give, you receive so much more in return.
You will:
- Gain self - confidence and self esteem
- Discover your strengths and talents
- Have compassion for others
- Raise your social awareness
- Interact with a diverse range of people
- Make life - long friends
- Create challenging and fulfilling experiences that will turn in to long - lasting memories
- Volunteering also enhances your working life
You will:
- Learn social and technical skills that are transferable to any business environment
- Develop interpersonal, team - building and problem - solving skills
- Gain international hands - on work experience
- Explore exciting career options that will take your all over the world
- Clarify your career path
By volunteering with EMF, you will change the lives of others by giving them the hope to realize their dreams. In doing so, you will inspire others to give of themselves, after such an experience, you will undoubtedly glow, and those around you will bask in your light.
Volunteer accommodation Food
Single /shared self rooms for volunteer with available of electricity,water,in our volunteer house.
volunteers will be given nice three meals per day normaly breakfask,lunch,and dinner to the volunteer houses/host family.
The volunteer house is a large one, with many bedrooms The house is safe and secure, with a security guard and a large gate. In the volunteer house, there is a cook who cooks the meals for the volunteers.
Regardless of the tribe or culture your host family is from, they will be sure to give you a good Tanzanian treat and meals will be relatively varied. Bottled water is readily available in Tanzania and volunteers should budget approximately US$10 per week for this (3- litres per day). Breakfasts generally consist of Chai (tea), toast, cereal, fruit and mandazi (deep fried dough). A typical lunch can include meat and vegetables with rice, sandwiches and fruit while dinner usually sees traditional food such as ugali, chapatti and boga accompany the meat and vegetables. Breakfast is taken in the morning, then, lunch, which is served at about 1 pm (or you can take a packed lunch if you wish to eat at your project) and then dinner/supper served at 6 or 7pm.
dependence on a depleting work force. Volunteers may lead community and farmer specific programs to teach about issues ranging from organic pesticides, to nutrition and other health concerns including AIDS.
For qualifications, please see "Education" and "Experience" under the primary descriptions of Environment and Agriculture
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