I want to help the kids in Africa and do work of that sort. What should I do?

Question

The UN?

Peace Corps?

Answer 1

We already did, bush sent 800 million just the other day, but nothing for the people here in the usa, what a prick he is

Answer 2

You don't get to join either organization -- you apply and hope that your qualifications are enough to be chosen.

Organizations such as UN Volunteers and the PeaceCorps  are looking for people who can work (read, write and speak) in a language other than English, who have skills and experience that can lead to local people generating income, better feeding their families, improving children's health, etc., or that can lead to the transformation of key institutions, such as government, universities/schools or NGOs. They are looking for people who can commit to a two-year assignment and who have experience working with under-served communities. Most volunteers not only have degrees, they also have grad degrees. The average age of a UN Volunteer is 38.

Here is a web site that can help you learn more about the skills and experience desired by long-term volunteer placement organizations (or paid work overseas to help in developing countries, for that matter), and how you can gain that experience locally:

http://www.coyotecommunications.com/volu...

Short-term volunteer placement agencies (in contrast to the aforementioned) charge unskilled volunteers a fee, or require these volunteers to pay their own way (flights, in-country transportation, health insurance, accommodation, food, security, translators, training, staff to create the service opportunities and then to supervise and support the volunteers in their service, liaisons with the police and local officials, etc.).

There is a listing of the more-than-30 member organizations of the International Volunteers Program Association (IVPA) that is a good place to find reputable volunteer-for-a-fee programs -- programs where you don't need to have much experience in order to participate, and the placements are just for a few weeks or months:

http://www.volunteerinternational.org/

In the meantime, what can you do to help people in Africa? You can educate yourself at the situation they face (by subscribing to online newsletters by UNICEF, CARE, UNIFEM, UNFPA, OxFAM, etc. and reading these regularly), by building awareness among your friends and family (linking to organizations via your MySpace, FaceBook and other social networking profiles, blogging about the situation there, etc.), and donating or raising funds for organizations working in Africa.

If you are still in high school, have a look at NetAid:

http://www.netaid.org

Answer 3

You could do charity help threw maybe a church or a school or coummity i would go online and see what type of organizions you could use I ask your church frist .

Answer 4

move to africa

why not help kids in the us?