Furthering Your Volunteering

Here are some opportunities to take your volunteering experience even further!

AIESEC

AIESEC discovers and develops the potential of young people through a process with several stages. Every member develops by continuous self-discovery, running an international exchange program and learning projects, leading teams on a local, national or international level, and through a professional internship in a company abroad.

Exchange is the most intense learning experience that we offer and links together our global network. Each year, we provide over 4,500 members the challenging opportunity to live and work in a foreign country in areas of management, information technology, education, and development.

Types of Exchanges:

Management – internships related to administration, finance, accounting, marketing, project management and HR.
Development – usually with NGOs, internships usually relate to wide variety of issues in community development.
Technical – internships related to management and development in web, software, networks, and databases, plus some engineering.
Education – internships related to promotion, curriculum development, teaching, and counseling in education sector.

To get in contact with the AISEC Curtin Local Committee, email curtin.aiesec@gmail.com

You can also visit the AIESEC Australia web site.

John Curtin Leadership Academy

The John Curtin Leadership Academy (JCLA) is a prestigious program offered at Curtin for students. It follows John Curtin's values of vision, leadership and community service. Running since 2007, the Academy offers participating students group activities, workshops and skills building sessions.

Three projects are currently being undertaken by the three groups in JCLA:

Plastic... Not So Fantastic is an campaign focused on raising student
awareness about the environmental, social and heath problems with plastic bottles and plastic bottled water. The group aims to promote the use of environmentally friendly, reusable stainless steel bottles as an alternative.
Junior JCLA – This team thought the experience of the JCLA was so fantastic that for their project they would pass that experience on to younger members of the community. The Junior JCLA team is working with Edventures, an organisation that provides positive experiences for at risk youth, in bringing together a full JCLA program for those youth.
Karda Festival- The largest JCLA team is working on a festival called Karda, which is taken from the new name of the symbol for the Centre for Aboriginal Studies. The festival will celebrate the fact that the CAS has been running for 25 years, and is being run to promote Reconciliation in Australia. They have invited Aboriginal dancers, musicians and bush tucker food providers, as well as having stalls showing the positive actions being taken throughout Western Australia to support and build Reconciliation. This festival will be held on the 15th of October, from 12 until 4.

For more information on the JCLA, please contact Jarrad Brown or 9266 3424 or at Jarrad.Brown@curtin.edu.au

Personal Advocacy Service - Making a Difference, One Person at a Time

Looking for a chance to volunteer for something more than just a one-off circumstance? Personal Advocacy Service reaches out to people with intellectual disabilities to include them in the life of the local community.

A gentle friendship with a person with intellectual disabilities gives us the opportunity to slow down, to look at the world from a different perspective and to enjoy the simple things in life. You will be supported by a small group of other volunteers, as well as the Personal Advocacy Training and Resource Centre staff.

The amount of time you will be asked to invest is 2 hours per week, during school terms, i.e. not during the school holidays!

If you would like more information about this volunteering opportunity, please phone Sue, Community Program Coordinator at Personal Advocacy Service Ph: 08 9275 5388.

Youth Challenge Australia

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Youth Challenge Australia is a non-profit, non-religious organisation that actively engages Australian volunteers in grass roots development work.

In Central Australia, Vanuatu, India, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico and Guyana, volunteers work in collaboration with local communities and partner organisations to assist the growth of sustainable and positive development.

Volunteer on a 5-12 week project that focuses on health, education, construction, conservation or social development. The Youth Challenge experience has a reputation for developing engaged and globally aware citizens, many of whom go on to be leaders in many parts of society.

Sounds like the thing for you? Visit their website: www.youthchallenge.org.au or give Tim Kenworthy a call on 0401 405 503.