Are there any virtual or home-based volunteer opportunities that can give me school hours?

Question

Are there any virtual or home-based volunteer opportunities that can give me school hours?

Answer 1

Yes, as long as your school agrees that such service meets the requirements.

Project Gutenberg is always looking for online volunteers to proofread texts which are made freely available to the world. Volunteering for Project Gutenberg is something you can do from your home.

http://www.gutenberg.org/

LibriVox is a nonprofit effort that mobilizes volunteers to record chapters of books in the public domain. LibriVox then publishes the audio files on the Internet, via its web site. The goal is to record al books in the public domain! Volunteering for LibriVox is something you can do from your home. You can listen to free audiobooks recorded by volunteers, or volunteer to record yourself reading a chapter of a book in the public domain to share with everyone, by going to the LibriVox web site:

http://librivox.org/

There's also the UN's Virtual Volunteering project, which recruits online volunteers to translate documents, design presentations, develop business plans, research information, compile data, design databases, design web sites, and undertake various other opportunities in support of organizations working in and for the developing world

http://www.onlinevolunteering.org