AFS Intercultural Programs

Connecting Lives, Sharing Culture

AFS STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

AFS is an international, volunteer-based, non-profit, non-governmental, non-religious organization that provides intercultural learning opportunities to help people develop the knowledge, skills and understanding needed to create a more just and peaceful world.

AFS CORE VALUES & ATTRIBUTES:

AFS enables people to act as responsible global citizens working for peace and understanding in a diverse world.

AFS seeks to affirm faith in the dignity and worth of every human being and of all nations and cultures. It encourages respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms without distinction as to race, sex, language, religion or social status.

AFS activities are based on our core values of dignity, respect for differences, harmony, sensitivity and tolerance.

AFS VISION FOR 2020:

"We pursue our mission by providing quality intercultural learning opportunities for a growing number of young people, families, other stakeholders and wider audiences, thus developing an inclusive community of global citizens determined to build bridges between cultures. Real life experiential learning, supported by structured reflection, is the core of our programs. We endeavor to link our intercultural learning opportunities to the defining global issues facing humanity. We reach out to past, current and future participants, volunteers, and other stakeholders using the media and technology they use."

Volunteers and volunteerism are who they are. Their organization brings about changes in lives through and for our global community of volunteers.

They are recognized as an educational organization by schools and the appropriate authorities. They work to create a regulatory environment that supports our programs.

As a learning organization, they welcome change and critical thinking. They are innovative and entrepreneurial in advancing the strategic directions, working together with others whenever appropriate.

Volunteers are the driving force behind all of the exchange programs offered by AFS. They are the backbone of the organization: a worldwide network of people who are committed to increasing intercultural understanding and communication. The dedication and support of these volunteers makes it possible for AFS Participants to embark on life-changing journeys of personal growth. 
AFS Volunteers contribute their time and energy to help people develop the foundation to become responsible global citizens. During this process, they also have the opportunity to take part in an intercultural learning experience. Through their work with participants and host families, volunteers can learn more about their own cultures, practice other languages, develop leadership skills and take part in community activities.

AFS is Volunteer-Driven

With only 750 full-time staff members, AFS relies heavily on a global network of volunteers to run successful exchange programs. There are more than 40,000 AFS Volunteers who are active at every level of the organization, from grassroots efforts within the community to policy development roles on national and international boards. For program participants, these people are the primary point of contact and support within the community. They recruit and screen candidates and host families, organize orientations and group gatherings, act as liaisons with host schools and even organize social activities.

In order to ensure that participants are supported throughout the exchange experience, volunteers are present in all the countries that AFS programs operate, as well as nearly all the communities with AFS activities or events. They are carefully trained and coached in the beginning by more experienced volunteers.

4 Steps to Become an AFS Volunteer

1. Learn.
Read about Benefits of Volunteering.

2. Apply.
Accomplish the Volunteer Interest Form.

3. Get Trained.
Receive training from AFS to prepare you in your volunteer role.

4. Change the World!
Share your time and individual talents with AFS-USA through volunteering to move intercultural understanding forward.

AFS Intercultural Programs Philippines 

Unit 1607 16/F Antel Global Corporate Center
No. 3 Doña Julia Vargas Avenue, Ortigas Center
1600 Pasig City, Metro Manila, Philippines
Phone and Fax: +63 (2) 584 2002
Email: info.philippines@afs.org
Web: http://www.afs.ph
 

Summer Institute of Linguistics

Anthropology in SIL promotes sociocultural awareness, supports ethnographic research, and provides resources for cultural documentation.

Anthropology has historically explored the details of human existence. It offers ways to help understand people and their sociocultural environments.

Socio-cultural environments influence people’s behavior and help define their identity. Society is the organizational and structural scaffolding that surrounds people, while culture refers to the meaning generated within the social environment. Understanding society and culture means being able to comprehend a complex web of tradition and change, physical and symbolic, sacred and mundane. As environments change, so do people and vice versa. The dynamic interaction between people and their environments produces a fascinating array of diversity. Building awareness of these complexities through training, research and technical resources is the goal of Anthropology in SIL.
Training: SIL training programs offer intensive introductions to cultural anthropology and field methods.

Research: SIL promotes ethnographic research and publishes its findings in books, journals and online at Ethnologue.com and SIL Electronic Working Papers.

Resources: SIL produces software tools designed for ethnographic research.

For more details please contact:

SIL International
7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road
Dallas, TX 75236-5629 USA
Telephone: +1 972 708-7400
FAX: +1 972 708-7350

Developing World Connections

Who we are.

Developing World Connections provides International Volunteer Experiences to people of all ages and backgrounds. We connect volunteers to communities in developing nations to work on sustainable projects that better the lives of some of the world's most impoverished people.

We are a grassroots, registered non-profit, and Canadian Charitable Organization with no professional, political, or religious affiliation.

OUR STORY

In 2000, DWC President Wayne McRann and Board member Dan Miller were working on a Rotary project in the jungles of Guatemala. They were assisting in the installation of a water system to improve the livelihoods of local community members. The desire to share the joy of this experience spawned the concept of Developing World Connections. What began as an idea became a reality in 2004 when DWC was formed. Shortly after, the tragic Boxing Day tsunami hit Sri Lanka. Developing World Connections quickly mobilized a grassroots response to help rebuild lives. We became a registered charity in 2005, and we began a grassroots movement. Since then, we have sent nearly 2000 volunteers to work on sustainable projects in host communities in 13 countries.

OUR BELIEF

We believe that working alongside local people in the developing world on a poverty alleviating project builds hope. Hope for the community, hope for the volunteer, and hope for a better, more peaceful world.

OUR MISSION

It is our mission to be a conduit for hope and to make a positive difference in the world. We exist to connect regular, everyday people with communities in the developing world to work alongside each other while making a real and lasting impact for the benefit of our entire global community.

OUR VISION

Our vision is a sustainable, socially-just, peaceful, and poverty-free global community where people experience the difference they make and the hope they build, all while working alongside each other.

Donate, Contribute, Give.

You can help communities in the developing world by becoming a donor or a participant. We invite you to give to poverty alleviating, sustainable projects and programs developed and delivered by our host partners to meet the specific needs of each unique community. By becoming a donor, you become part of the growing community of active global citizens who want to see real, lasting, positive change in the world. By participating on an International Volunteer Experience, you have the opportunity to see where you donation is going, who administers the programs, and connect directly with the locals you are helping.

How Can I Make a Difference?

Become a participant and join us on an International Volunteer Experience:

By becoming a volunteer, you contribute both your physicall and financial resources. You will work side by side with local community members on a sustainable project they've selected. More often than not, this involves building homes, community centres, schools, and livelihood centres. A substantial portion of the cost of your trip goes directly to the Host Partner for supplies, equipment and building materials, local paid labour, and operating programs within the community.

Join a pre-arranged short-term project or four-week student trip, or create your own customized trip. Build a team of family, friends, colleagues, classmates, or a special interest group. Developing World Connections will arrange everything from flights, in-country transport, accommodation and meals to project materials and labour. Plus, the entire amount paid through DWC, flight airfare included, is deemed a charitable donation, which means it is 100% tax deductible. You can also fundraise to help meet the cost of your trip, and DWC will issue charitable tax receipts to those who donate on your behalf.

SIGN ME UP!

Make a donation to Developing World Connections:

DWC is a non-profit organization, and we do not receive any government funding. You donation is vital to help keep our organization running and enables more funds to directly reach our host communities and project beneficiaries. You can make a donation by cheque, credit card, debit card, or online. Here's how to donate:

Cheque: Mail to #220-141 Victoria Street, Kamloops, BC, Canada, V2C 1Z5

Credit card: Call our office toll free at 1-866-458-8209

Debit card: Come visit us at our office at the above address

*We will issue a charitable tax receipt for any donation amount $20 CDN or more. All donations must be made to Developing World Connections in order to be eligible for a charitable tax receipt. We also require your current contact information including your full name, address, phone number, and email address.

Online: Donate by using Canada Helps, a secure, fast, and convenient site exclusively built for charities. Canada Help charges a 4% administration fee on each transaction but will issue you a charitable receipt for any amount more than $1 CDN. Click here for the On-Line Payment/Contribution Instructions.

Museum Foundation of the Philippines

Our Vision, Our Mission

The Museum Foundation of the Philippines is a non-stock, not-for-profit membership and volunteer organization dedicated to developing greater awareness and appreciation of the Philippines’ rich artistic and cultural heritage, in partnership with the National Museum and its divisions and branches.

WE RAISE AWARENESS AND APPRECIATION BY
Conducting lectures on Philippine art, history, and culture;
Organizing cultural study tours in the Philippines;
Organizing special fundraising events such as Art in the Park and MaARTe fairs;
Providing some financial assistance to the National Museum for activities related to education, exhibitions, publications, collection management, and others activities; and

Forming partnerships with organizations with similar missions.

How to Join?

STEP 1

Fill out the membership form and send personally, mail, email, or fax to:
Museum Foundation of the Philippines, Inc.
G/F Museum of the Filipino People (former Finance Building)
Finance Road between P. Burgos & Taft Avenue
Valencia Circle, Rizal Park, Manila, Philippines 1004
Phone: (+632) 697-9509
Fax: (+632) 404-2685
Email: inquiry@museumfoundationph.org
Contact Elvie Magpayo or Mae de Leon

STEP 2

Membership is confirmed upon receipt of your membership fee
Payments can be made at the MFPI office or deposited to our Chinabank account # 202-002361-2
for the account of the Museum Foundation of the Philippines, Inc.
Checks should be made out to Museum Foundation of the Philippines, Inc.
Upon deposit, please fax or email to us deposit slip for MFPI recording.
Download the MFPI Membership Form here.

For more details please contact:

National Museum

of the Philippines

National Art Gallery
(former Legislative Building)
Administration Office
P. Burgos Drive, Rizal Park, Manila (MAP)
For inquiries, contact Lina or Tess of the Museum Education Division
TELEFAX
(+632) 527-0278
EMAIL
education@nationalmuseum.gov.ph
WEB
www.nationalmuseum.gov.ph

Gawad Kalinga

About the Org (Taken from Org Website):

OUR MISSION
Ending poverty for 5 million families by 2024.

OUR VISION

Gawad Kalinga is building a nation
empowered by people with faith and patriotism;
a nation made up of caring and sharing communities,
dedicated to eradicate poverty and restore human dignity.


Gawad Kalinga Community Development Foundation, Inc. (GK) was formally established in 2003, but the work began as early as 1994 in Bagong Silang, Caloocan City, the biggest squatters relocation site in Metro Manila. Since then it has expanded its work to over 2,000 organized communities and has been adopted in other developing nations like Cambodia, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. It is also in the forefront of peace-building work in conflict areas in Mindanao and reconstruction work in post-disaster communities.


How to Volunteer:
http://www.gk1world.com/portal/volunteer/default.aspx

Join an Activity
Be On Call
Work With Us
Be Our Mission Partner
Bayani Challenge

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Contact Details:
GK GLOBAL HEADQUARTERS

2nd Floor, Cheng Building,
212 Haig Street, Brgy. Daang-Bakal,
Mandaluyong City, Philippines 1552
+63-2-5332217

info@gawadkalinga.com

URL to Website: http://www.gk1world.com/home

 

Volunteering Solutions

About the Org (Taken from Org Website):
“Volunteering Solutions is the best way to travel, intern and volunteer across the world!”

Conceptualized in the late 2006, Volunteering Solutions, now nicknamed VolSol, is an international volunteer placement match organization. In simple words, we find the best volunteer work opportunity abroad for you and get you a volunteering placement in the organization and destination you desire. Most of our volunteers are high school students, teenagers, corporate groups and individuals on their summer or career break. As an organization we have a cross cultural set up in all our offices across the world. We have people from different countries, cultures and ethnicities working for us. Getting to what we do, we send hundreds of international volunteers abroad to work at ground level with NGOs, schools, hospitals, orphanages, HIV/AIDS clinics, women groups and other social welfare organizations across the globe. We have dedicated coordinators at each volunteer destination, coming from different countries. We take care of your volunteer placement, volunteer travel, accommodation, meals and security. If you are an anxious parent, a nervous teenager, first time traveler, or an office goer planning to volunteer abroad, don’t worry! You are safe with us.

How to Volunteer:
http://www.volunteeringsolutions.com/volunteer-abroad/volunteer-in-philippines

In Philippines, Volunteering Solutions offers volunteer projects in and around Tacloban city in the island of Leyte. We have two volunteer opportunities in Tacloban, Orphanage Volunteer work and volunteering opportunity at rural medical clinics. Both requires volunteers to put in a minimum volunteering work hours of 5 hours a day for 5 days. Our international volunteers use their weekends for traveling around the city or for making short trips.


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Contact Details:

Toll free - US/CAN 1- 888-790-3096

Toll free - UK 0- 800-014-8160

Call us - INDIA +91-124-4307993

Call us - SINGAPORE +65 9236 4394

 

Address: 101 A, Super Mart-II, DLF Phase - IV, Gurgaon - 122002, India; Phone: +91- 9871371009, 9910296633; Fax : + 91-124-4724017                       

 

URL to Website: http://www.volunteeringsolutions.com/volunteer-abroad/volunteer-in-philippines

 

Kaya Responsible Travel

About the Org (Taken from Org Website):
Kaya was set up in 2008 by our Director, Heilwig Jones, after her own volunteering experiences and many years’ involvement with community projects. The idea behind Kaya is to bring together the quality and impact of grass roots projects with the breadth of choice, quality of structure and organization and level of service that enables everyone the opportunity to contribute to positive action and enjoy traveling the world more responsibly.

Kaya is a word which means a lot in a number of the communities we work with. In the Filipino Waray language, it means “I can do it!”, in Zulu “my spiritual home” and in Buddhism “the enlightened one”.

How to Volunteer:
This is a UK-based organization setting up "Voluntourism" activities in Asian countries like the Phlippines. They have contact information posted in the website.  Please call +44 161 870 6212 to speak to a Kaya Placements Advisor to discuss the need for volunteers and availability.

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Contact Details:

+44.161.870.6212

+1.413.517.0266

URL to Website: http://www.kayavolunteer.com/destinations/country/Philippines