Monday, August 23, 2010

Volunteering in Mozambique

Lovely readers with experience in Mozambique, can you help me out?

I often get emails from people asking about places to volunteer in Maputo and other locations in the country. I have a few recommendations based on my own experience, but I imagine that with your input we can create a list of volunteer opportunities that is much more complete.

Have you had an experience volunteering in Mozambique? With what organization? Would you recommend it to others? Were there any prerequisites (language, specific skills, etc.)? How did you find about the opportunity?

Here's my recommendation for people who want to volunteer: get involved with MAPS, the Mozambique Animal Protection Society. Visit their website for more information about how they are helping stop animal cruelty in Mozambique and how you can help.

I look forward to seeing your recommendations in the comments!

4 comments:

Claudia said...

Hugely appreciate your shout-out for MAPS, as a relatively new organization in an environment that has no other support for animals we really can use all the help we can get and are always eager to put volunteers to work (not that it is ever 'work' when working with animals :) Thanks Ali! x

Marcia (123 blog) said...

Hi Ali

There's a lady called Laura http://clearlyliving.blogspot.com - who does some awesome work on Moz too.

i know her because she reads my organising blog :)

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