Volunteer Opportunities
Every Palestine Summer Encounter participant serves their host community through a volunteer placement at a nonprofit organization, summer camp, municipality, school, hospital, church or community center. Some of the more common volunteer opportunities and assignments include: writing/editing documents in English, teaching/tutoring English as a second language, coaching sports, supervising activities for children or youth at a summer camp, working with the elderly or the disabled, web design and maintenence, art (teaching art/supervising mural projects), manual labor (painting classrooms, etc.), research, and public relations.
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Sample Types of Volunteer Opportunities
Media Opportunities Teach English / Work with Kids
Arts and Music Coaching / Sports
Rebuilding Human Rights / Advocacy
Volunteering at a Nonprofit Medical Volunteers
[Note: These are SAMPLE opportunities only. No one is guaranteed a specific volunteer placement. You will be set up with a volunteer opportunity based on your interests, your level of experience, and the stated needs of the groups we hope to serve].
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List of Volunteer Opportunities
[Note: the opportunities listed below are based on the 2007 program. Updates will be made in the near future].
Artistic Volunteers in Palestine
Palestine Summer Encounter offers opportunities for short term volunteers to teach art or help with murals or arts and crafts projects.
Tasks for these types of opportunities might include:
+ Organizing and supervising the painting of a peace mural.
+ Teaching music or arts and crafts at a summer camp.
+ Working with young artists / musicians.
Note: We do not guarantee any specific volunteer placement. As a participant in the Palestine Summer Encounter program you will be placed at a volunteer assignment based on your skill sets, your work/volunteer/education background, your interests and the stated needs of the organizations that we serve. This page is intended ONLY as a sample of what types of volunteer opportunities are available.
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General Info.
Palestine Summer Encounter is a one to three month service learning and cultural immersion program in Bethlehem, Palestine. Participants study Arabic in and outside of the classroom setting, live with a Palestinian host family, volunteer with one of thirty-seven participating nonprofits and organizations and meet with both Israeli and Palestinian peacemakers.
Human Rights Volunteers in Palestine
Palestine Summer Encounter offers opportunities for short term volunteers to work in the fields of peacemaking, human rights, nonviolence and activism.
Tasks for these types of opportunities might include:
+ Legal research and advocacy.
+ Observing and participating in Palestinian led nonviolence workshops.
+ Office work for a human rights or peacemaking NGO.
Note: We do not guarantee any specific volunteer placement. As a participant in the Palestine Summer Encounter program you will be placed at a volunteer assignment based on your skill sets, your work/volunteer/education background, your interests and the stated needs of the organizations that we serve. This page is intended ONLY as a sample of what types of volunteer opportunities are available.
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General Info.
Palestine Summer Encounter is a one to three month service learning and cultural immersion program in Bethlehem, Palestine. Participants study Arabic in and outside of the classroom setting, live with a Palestinian host family, volunteer with one of thirty-seven participating nonprofits and organizations and meet with both Israeli and Palestinian peacemakers.
Media Volunteers in Palestine
Palestine Summer Encounter offers opportunities for short term volunteers to work on media projects.
Tasks for these types of opportunities might include:
+ Doing background research for breaking news.
+ Assisting with photos or video for media projects.
+ Conducting interviews.
+ Helping polish documents translated from Arabic into rough English.
Note: We do not guarantee any specific volunteer placement. As a participant in the Palestine Summer Encounter program you will be placed at a volunteer assignment based on your skill sets, your work/volunteer/education background, your interests and the stated needs of the organizations that we serve. This page is intended ONLY as a sample of what types of volunteer opportunities are available.
Return to the Volunteer Opportunities Main Page
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General Info.
Palestine Summer Encounter is a one to three month service learning and cultural immersion program in Bethlehem, Palestine. Participants study Arabic in and outside of the classroom setting, live with a Palestinian host family, volunteer with one of thirty-seven participating nonprofits and organizations and meet with both Israeli and Palestinian peacemakers.
Sports / Coaching Volunteers in Palestine
Palestine Summer Encounter offers opportunities for short term volunteers to coach sports to children and young adults.
Tasks for these types of opportunities might include:
+ Assisting the head coach.
+ Running drills and practice sessions.
+ Supervising sports games along with other activities in a summer camp setting.
+ Participating in impromptu games and matches.
+ Helping document the activities of a sports club or summer camp.
Note: We do not guarantee any specific volunteer placement. As a participant in the Palestine Summer Encounter program you will be placed at a volunteer assignment based on your skill sets, your work/volunteer/education background, your interests and the stated needs of the organizations that we serve. This page is intended ONLY as a sample of what types of volunteer opportunities are available.
Return to the Volunteer Opportunities Main Page
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General Info.
Palestine Summer Encounter is a one to three month service learning and cultural immersion program in Bethlehem, Palestine. Participants study Arabic in and outside of the classroom setting, live with a Palestinian host family, volunteer with one of thirty-seven participating nonprofits and organizations and meet with both Israeli and Palestinian peacemakers.
Teach English in Palestine
Palestine Summer Encounter offers opportunities for short term volunteers to teach / tutor English.
Tasks for these types of opportunities might include:
+ Teaching English in a classroom setting.
+ Tutoring English one-on-one or with small groups.
+ Assisting English clubs or English study groups.
+ Helping polish documents translated from Arabic into rough English.
Note: We do not guarantee any specific volunteer placement. As a participant in the Palestine Summer Encounter program you will be placed at a volunteer assignment based on your skill sets, your work/volunteer/education background, your interests and the stated needs of the organizations that we serve. This page is intended ONLY as a sample of what types of volunteer opportunities are available.
Return to the Volunteer Opportunities Main Page
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General Info.
Palestine Summer Encounter is a one to three month service learning and cultural immersion program in Bethlehem, Palestine. Participants study Arabic in and outside of the classroom setting, live with a Palestinian host family, volunteer with one of thirty-seven participating nonprofits and organizations and meet with both Israeli and Palestinian peacemakers.
Volunteer at a Hospital in Palestine
Palestine Summer Encounter offers opportunities for medical related volunteer work. These opportunities are generally reserved for those in the fields of medicine or public health.
Tasks for these types of opportunities might include:
+ Accompanying/ observing in a hospital setting.
+ Working on health education or other relevant programs.
Note: We do not guarantee any specific volunteer placement. As a participant in the Palestine Summer Encounter program you will be placed at a volunteer assignment based on your skill sets, your work/volunteer/education background, your interests and the stated needs of the organizations that we serve. This page is intended ONLY as a sample of what types of volunteer opportunities are available.
Return to the Volunteer Opportunities Main Page
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General Info.
Palestine Summer Encounter is a one to three month service learning and cultural immersion program in Bethlehem, Palestine. Participants study Arabic in and outside of the classroom setting, live with a Palestinian host family, volunteer with one of thirty-seven participating nonprofits and organizations and meet with both Israeli and Palestinian peacemakers.