Various Fundraising, events, PR etc.
Humanitarian Centre
Aiducation International provides high-school scholarships for top talents in developing countries. We're currently active in Kenya (and have fundraising chapters in Switzerland, Germany, the UK, and Singapore), and plan to target a set-up a new location to impact beneficiaries in Asia (the Philippines or Bangladesh) by the end of 2010. We're also strongly expanding into new fundraising chapters (most prominently the US).
Aptivate volunteers, Cambridge
Aptivate is an NGO that specialises in IT for International Development. We work with other non-profits, charities, and NGOs as technical consultants, facilitators and trainers, web / software developers, and to provide hosting services, on a wide range of projects.We also carry out projects in our own areas of interest, mainly focused on increasing global access to web resources, by promoting low-bandwidth web design, making tools to help network managers and people browsing the web in less well connected environments, and providing training workshops and resources, both for network managers and for people new to using computers and the internet.
We’re currently 10 people working full and part time, both in and out of Cambridge, assisted by a number of part-time volunteers. We’ve got a heap of requested work on at the moment and we could really use some skilled help to take on some of the workload! We’re currently looking to hire experienced web developers. We also take on a number of volunteers every year.
We mainly work on Linux environments, and we’re developing in Django/Python and PHP at the moment, having moved on from a lot of Java projects previously. We use test-driven-development and agile methodologies adapted for small projects. Although everyone has areas of expertise and responsibilities within the organisation, we all wear many hats; we manage the organisation collectively, and we expect and encourage anyone working with us to take part fully in that.
If you’re interested in finding out more about us you’d be welcome to pop in for lunch and an informal chat anytime; we eat together most days at our office in the Humanitarian Centre.
Various Internships and office volunteering
Humanitarian Centre
Cambridge to Africa supports educational projects in Uganda, through the Child Africa International Project in Uganda. It also undertakes research into all aspects of education in Africa, including the provision of an open publishing platform via the Itupale Online Journal of African Studies.
Wanted: Would you like to be part of a team that helps change lives in Africa? Cards from Africa, a Social Enterprise business, based in Cambridge is seeking to recruit bright, outgoing, friendly people to work part time on a volunteer basis. CfA provides dignified employment to survivors of the genocide and AIDS in Rwanda. We do this by employing them to manufacture handmade cards which we now sell in the UK. Our motto is Beautiful Cards, Better Lives and we have seen hundreds of people whose lives have been changed in remarkable ways over the last few years. We need volunteers able to give, say, 1 or 2 half days a week, more if you can, to contact and manage retailers, as well as carry out various admin tasks.
Education Workshops
CDiAV Volunteer:
- Delivering workshops. Usually two volunteers will share the facilitation of a workshop for 12-25 participants.
- Contacting schools to set up workshops.
- Developing or editing workshops according to particular interests within the field of development.
- Organising fundraising events.
- Committee positions may be available.
CDiAV is a Cambridge-based project working in association with the development education NGO Development in Action (DiA). CDiAV exists to deliver free workshops about development education and responsible overseas volunteering to local schools (16+) and community groups. Topics include Ethical Overseas Volunteering; Cultural Awareness; An Introduction to Development Education; How to implement Development Education in volunteering; Building partnerships overseas.
EWB-UK and its affiliated branches at 30 Universities across the UK depends on the active participation of its dedicated volunteers.
Volunteers find that their input and effort can make a huge impact and they are hugely valued. No matter what area a volunteer is working in they can have significant impact on the success of the organisation
EWB-UK Volunteers
Volunteers make up the National Executive and Programme and Support Area Teams - they play a vital role in the capacity of our organisation.
Positions on the National Executive are advertised via the website annually for the start of each new academic year. You can also get involved in organising events, presenting to varying audiences, reviewing applications, producing publicity material, creating workshops and meeting like minded people amongst other fantastic opportunities by either contacting your area of interest or finding out more about positions (both paid and unpaid) available within EWB-UK.
Volunteers receive training for their role, they take on clearly defined positions and are well supported by our network of members.
Volunteering for your branch
If there is a branch at your University then contact them to see how you can get involved with their activities.
Volunteers currently take on a huge variety of exciting roles from organising trips, events, training courses to going to schools to deliver outreach programmes.
New ideas for activities are driven by you the volunteers
Not at a University with a Branch?
If your University does not have an EWB-UK Branch then you can search for your nearest branch and get involved with them. Alternatively you might like to think about starting a branch of your own.
Not at University?
If you are no longer studying at a University, our active Professional Network has opportunities. This support network is rapidly growing and like the rest of the charity is always keen to have new members and volunteers from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds.
Development Report distributors
The Humanitarian Centre has recently published a new report, ‘Cambridge and International Development’, which explores how Cambridge innovation has a positive impact on the lives of some of the world’s poorest people. The report features a series of case studies drawn from the work of Cambridge businesses, NGOs, academics and consultants. The Humanitarian Centre is looking for volunteers to help with the practical task of distributing the report around Cambridge! If you have a bike or car (or just like walking!) and a bit of spare time, we’d appreciate your help.
Cambridge has an active humanitarian community engaged in international relief and development work. The Humanitarian Centre seeks to report on interesting development-related activities local people are involved in. If you are interested in international development work and/or journalism the volunteer opportunity of reporter for the Humanitarian Centre could be perfect for you! The role involves writing short articles about events and activities related to international development that have some connection to the Cambridge area. We are looking for someone with good writing skills, and a keen interest in international development to spend about four hours per week on this role.
Transforming Business volunteers, Cambridge
Transforming Business is a project in the University of Cambridge focused on enterprise solutions to poverty. We are particularly interested in the role of ethics and entrepreneurship in human development. We are in need of voluntary research, admin, IT, events and fundraising support. The work is stimulating and creative, with flexible hours, and it can be done from wherever.
who? office staff
when? flexible
where? central Cambridge
We look after orphaned and abandoned children in 123 countries across the world, as well as running community outreach projects, schools, medical centres and emergency relief programmes. The Cambridge office is a fundraising office, where we occasionally need help with administrative tasks like filing, writing projects overviews, entering information on our donor database and promoting our work.