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].

View a list of 37 partnering organizations in Bethlehem, Beit Sahour and Beit Jala where participants will be placed for their volunteer opportunities.