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Volunteer Opportunities
Every participant serves their host community through a volunteer placement at a nonprofit organization, summer camp, municipality, school, hospital, church or community center.
Medical Charitable Society
Address : Bethlehem-Taqua-City Center
Telephone number : 972-2-276 3386
Fax : 972-2-276 3445 (information about calling Palestine)
Contact Person : Ibrahim Jibrin
Activities/Focus of Organization : Our mission is humanitarian and health services.
Number of the organization employees : 10
Volunteer Opportunities/Assignments : We need doctors as volunteers in all specializations, nurses, health education specialists and women''s health experts. Volunteers will help in the work of health services and will help with lectures on health education for the public.
Dates Volunteers Needed : June to 5th to August, 2007
Comments : our institute serving the citizens in the eastern rural area where there are high rates of illiteracy and poverty.
Lajee Center
Address : Aida Camp- Bethlehem
Telephone number : 972-2-275 0789
Fax : 972-2-277 6446 (information about calling Palestine)
Email : info@lajee.org
Website : www.lajee.org
Contact Person : Salah Al Ajarma
Activities/Focus of Organization : Arts (storytelling, painting), Languages and child care
Number of employees : 2
Volunteer Opportunities/Assignments : Taking care of the library and computer lab and preparing lessons for the children.
Dates Volunteers Needed : June 1st to July 30th
Jemima, a Home for Handicapped Children
Address : Beit Jala/ Al- Sider Street 117
Telephone number : 972-2-275 0044
Fax : 972-2-277 7922 (information about calling Palestine)
Email : rikko@beitjemima.org | cc@beitjemima.org
Website : http://www.jemima.nl/eng/
Contact Person : Rikko Lawers/ Nisreen Sarras
Activities/Focus of Organization : Working with children and young grown up with mental and physical restrictions, and need assistance in custodial care.
Number of employees : 42 Volunteer Opportunities: Helping with activities and care for the children. Dates Volunteers Needed: Volunteer needed from 6 months to a year
House of Hope
Address : P.O Box 11526 Gilo- 91114 Jerusalem- Israel
Telephone number : 972-2-274 2325
Fax : 972-2-274 0928 (information about calling Palestine)
Email : houseofhopemd@palnet.com
Website : www.houseofhopemd.org
Contact Person : Rhoda David, Director Activities/Focus of Organization: House of Hope serves blind and disabled children and adults through a boarding house. Currently the "House of Hope" is being remodeled.
Number of employees : 20 (approximately) Volunteer Opportunities: "Once we receive an estimate of the work, we will need help moving furniture, possibly rewiring or remodeling certain areas, painting/ etc. in short, the desks/ Shelves, etc. from our offices will need to be moved to the current school and the school desks and boards and items will need to be moved to the residence section. " Dates Volunteers Needed: anytime between May and August 2007
Holy Land Trust
Address : #529 Manger Street, P. O. Box 737
Telephone number : 972-2-2765930
Fax : 972-2-2765931 (information about calling Palestine)
Email : palestine@holylandtrust.org
Website : www.holylandtrust.org
Contact Person : Awni Jubran
Activities/Focus of Organization : Holy Land Trust (HLT) is a Palestinian NGO that was established in 1998 with the aim of strengthening the Palestinian community for the future.
Projects include HLT Nonviolence Programs, Travel & Encounter and Palestine News Network (www.pnn.ps).
Number of employees : 19 Volunteer opportunities: Assisting with HLT Nonviolence Programs.
Dates Volunteers Needed : June to July 2007
Holy Land Handicraft Cooperative Society
Address : Shepherd's Field, Beit Sahour
Telephone number : 972-2-277-3087
Fax : 972-2-277-3088 (information about calling Palestine)
Email : hlcs@p-ol.com
Website : www.holyland-handicraft.org
Contact Person : Suzan Sahori
Activities/Focus of Organization : Marketing and creating new products for international sales. Working with international contacts promoting Fair Trade of local Palestinian products and crafts (olive wood products, mother of pearl and embroidery). Number of the organization employees: 10 Volunteer opportunities: "We need volunteers who are experienced in customer service, have excellent English writing skills and can help us to market and promote our organization, improve our website, etc."
Dates Volunteers Needed : June 2007 through August 2007 if possible.
The Future Vision Society for Development of the Abilities (AREEN)
Address : Dheisheh Camp. Bethlehem, Palestine
Telephone number : 972-2-274 3513
Fax : 972-2-274 3513 (information about calling Palestine)
Email : Future_vision12@hotmail.com
Website : www.3reen.org
Contact Person : Manal Al Azrak
Activities/Focus of the Organization : Child development, women, youth, provision of job opportunities, summer camps, training courses, etc.
Number of employees : 25 Volunteer Opportunities Available: Working on the website and assisting with any activities at the center (summer camps, workshops, training courses, etc.)
Family Development Charitable Society Club for Elderly People
Address : Beit Sahour.
Telephone number : 972-2-277 4446
Fax : 972-2-277 4449 (information about calling Palestine)
Email : elen@tanas.org
Contact Person : Elen Al Qasiss
Activities/Focus of Organization : Elderly Club. Daily work with the elderly people: from cooking to cleaning and ironing.
Number of employees : 8
Volunteer opportunities available : Writing email and correspondents. Helping with PR and especially with the English Language. Helping with daily work as mentioned above.
Environmental Education Center
Address : Talitha Kumi School Campus. Beit Jala, Palestine
Telephone number : 972-2-276 5574
Fax : 972-2-276 5574 (information about calling Palestine)
Email : eec@p-ol.com, sija9@yahoo.com
Website : www.eecp.org
Contact Person : Simon Awad
Activities/Focus of the Organization : Raising public awareness among all socio groups towards their environment, building capacity via training sessions, workshops and meetings, voluntary campaigns including cleaning up, harvesting olives, painting streets and planting, doing scientific researches, organizing national festivals, special activities for our environmental clubs such as summer camps, celebrations, lectures and field trips, implementing environmental pilot projects regarding water harvesting and solid waste management in addition to many other activities.
Projects : Acting in defense of the Palestinian Environment and Integrated Water Resources Management.
Number of the organization employees : 4
Volunteer Opportunities/Assignments : Writing and editing reports and the annual activity report, exceptional skills in proposal writing and webpage designing
Dates Volunteers Needed : from June to August
East Jerusalem YMCA - Advocacy Desk
Address : YMCA, Beit Sahour
Telephone number : 972-2-277 4540
Fax : 972-2-277 4540 (information about calling Palestine)
Email : ihannouneh@ej-ymca.org | advocacy@ej-ymca.org
Website : www.jai-pal.org
Contact Person : Ibrahim Hannouneh Types of Activities/Orgnization Focus: Advocacy, lobbing, campaigning, publications, networking, advocacy tour groups
Number of employees : 200 (YMCA) and 7 (YMCA Advocacy)
Volunteer Activities/Assignments : Organizing children's activities, organizing summer camps, editing/writing reports and proposals, photography and web design.
Dates Volunteers Needed : May 27th to August 20th.
Comments : Long term volunteers are preferable. Also, volunteers who can speak Arabic or has some basic Arabic speaking skills are preferable.
