Volunteer Opportunities
Posted on 10 June 2008. Filed under: Call for Nominations or Applications, Children, Cross-Disability, Education, Inclusion, Opportunities, Volunteer Opportunities, youth | Tags: academics, Africa, Asia, children with disabilities, disabled children, educators, EENET, Enabling Education Network, government officials, inclusive education, Latin America, parents, students, students with disabilities, teachers, UK |
Please note that applications should be directed to EENET, not to We Can Do; read carefully for links, email address, and instructions. The deadline is June 24, 2008.
EENET steering group: user group representatives
Background to EENET’s Steering Group
The Enabling Education Network (EENET) is a global information network that helps education practitioners and stakeholders to document [...]
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Posted on 29 April 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Blind, Jobs & Internships, Opportunities, South Asian Region, Volunteer Opportunities | Tags: Bangladesh, BERDO, blind education and rehabilitation development organiza, Dhaka, disabled community, fellowship, ict, micrcredit, newsletter, Rehabilitation, short-term fellowship, talking library, volunteer opportunity |
If I understand correctly, it seems that the participating fellow/volunteer may need to cover all associated travel and other expenses. In exchange, you would gain experience that you can put on your resume. Please use the contact information provided near the bottom of this announcement to obtain more detail about this opportunity.
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Posted on 28 February 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Capacity Building and Leadership, Deaf, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Human Rights, Opportunities, Volunteer Opportunities | Tags: Albanian National Association of the Deaf, albanian sign language, albanian sign language news training program, ANAD, Deaf adviser, ministry for foreign affairs of finland, organisational development project, volunteer position, Volunteers department development programme |
Please note that the application deadline is March 14, 2008, for this volunteer opportunity scheduled for March 31 to April 25, 2008 (negotiable) in Albania.
ALBANIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF THE DEAF
VOLUNTEERS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME TRAINING
BACKGROUND
Organizational Name
Albanian National Association of the Deaf (ANAD)
Street Address
Bulevardi “Zhan D’Ark”, Kulla 4, Shkalla 1, Ap. 9,
Tirana, Albania
Postal Address
P.O.Box: 2401/1
Tirane, [...]
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Posted on 22 December 2007. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Announcements, Arts, Blind, Call for Papers, Case Studies, Children, Cognitive Impairments, Commonwealth Nations, Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR), Cross-Disability, Deaf, Democratic Participation, Disability Studies, Disaster Planning & Mitigation, East Asia Pacific Region, East Asia and Central Asia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Education, Education and Training Opportunities, Employment, Events and Conferences, Families, Fellowships & Scholarships, Funding, Guest Blogger, HIV/AIDS, Health, Housing, Human Rights, Immigration, Inclusion, Interpreting, Introduction to "We Can Do", Jobs & Internships, Latin America & Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa, Mobility Impariments, Multiple Disabilities, News, Opinion, Opportunities, Policy & Legislation, Poverty, Psychiatric Disabilities, Rehabilitation, Remittances, Reports, Resources, South Asian Region, Sub-Saharan Africa Region, Violence, Volunteer Opportunities, Women, autism, technology | Tags: , Academic Papers and Research, blind children, Call for Papers, case study, child-friendly CRPD, computers for blind people, conferences, CRPD, disabilities, disability, disability and development, disability and international development, disability rights, disabled, disabled people, Disabled People International, Dolphin Pen, events, Funding, funding sources, Handicap International, Human Rights, human rights resources, Inclusion, India, information, international convention on the rights of persons with, International Day of Disabled Persons, international development, journals, mainstreaming disability, missed opportunities, News, opinion pieces, papers, parliamentarians, people with disabilities, poverty reduction strategies, practical resources, research, resource book, Resources, retrospective, screen magnifier, screen reader, Sightsaver's dolphin pen, training opportunities, UN Enable, United Nations, universal design, visitability, Voluntary Services Overseas, We Can Do, Zimbabwe |
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If you’re new to We Can Do, what interesting information, news, or resources might you have overlooked from the past few months? Although some older items may no longer be interesting, others may still be relevant and helpful a year or three from now. This [...]
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Posted on 7 November 2007. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Announcements, Arts, Blind, Call for Papers, Case Studies, Children, Cognitive Impairments, Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR), Cross-Disability, Deaf, Disability Studies, Disaster Planning & Mitigation, East Asia Pacific Region, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Education, Employment, Events and Conferences, Families, Funding, Guest Blogger, HIV/AIDS, Housing, Human Rights, Immigration, Interpreting, Introduction to "We Can Do", Jobs & Internships, Latin America & Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa, Mobility Impariments, Multiple Disabilities, News, Opinion, Opportunities, Policy & Legislation, Poverty, Psychiatric Disabilities, Rehabilitation, Remittances, Resources, South Asian Region, Sub-Saharan Africa Region, Violence, Volunteer Opportunities, Women | Tags: Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Croatia, CRPD, Cuba, disability, disability movement, disability rights, Gabon, guest blogging, Hungary, India, international development, Jamaica, Panama, publishing, We Can Do, writing |
Currently, We Can Do gathers news; announcements; academic papers; case studies; opinion pieces; information about resources; and other materials of interest to disabled advocates and international development professionals from a wide range of sources. In addition to these, from time to time, I write fresh content of my own.
I also hope to [...]
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Posted on 29 September 2007. Filed under: Announcements, Cognitive Impairments, Jobs & Internships, Sub-Saharan Africa Region, Volunteer Opportunities | Tags: disabilities, disability, disabled, international development, KAIH, Kenya, Kenya Association for the Intellectually Handicapped, Voluntary Service Overseas, VSO |
Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) is seeking a volunteer manager. If interested, please review their announcement below and then contact VSO directly. I first learned of this opportunity via Ghulab Nabi Nizamani–but neither he nor I are associated with VSO.
In Kenya, people with disabilities often suffer from discrimination and stigmatisation, and have limited access [...]
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