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Catholic Institute for International Relations (CIIR) - Organisation working for justice and the eradication of poverty. Information about its advocacy activities in the UK and Europe, and its development programmes in partnership with civil groups and governments in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, and SE Asia.
International Service (UNAIS) - Organisation recruiting skilled and motivated people to work in locally initiated and managed development projects in West Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. Information about programmes and fundraising.
Student Action India - Development non-governmental organisation run by young people for young people, to enhance young people's wider education in the UK and India in particular through the promotion of cultural exchange between the two countries.
World Service Enquiry - Information and advice about working overseas and at home for peace, justice and development. Includes subscription details to their newsletter of opportunities (salaried and volunteer).
The Sunseed Trust - Develops ways of reclaiming semi-arid land and helping the lives of people living on such land, through research and experimentation, an ecological lifestyle and education. UK-registered charity.
VSO - (Voluntary Service Overseas). An international development charity which works through volunteers. Enables people aged 17-70 to share their skills and experience with local communities in the developing world.
Inter Cultural Youth Exchange - Charity sending volunteers to work with communities overseas. Includes details and costs.
IVCS - Indian Volunteers for Community Service - Enables people (of any ethnic origin) to visit and become involved in rural development projects in India for 3 weeks to 6 months. Information about programme and costs.
Global Vision International (GVI) - Since its formation in 1998, GVI has sent almost one hundred eco-Volunteers on overseas expeditions every year. Information on environmental and teaching placements.
ethiopia.org.uk - Simon Poliakoff's VSO posting in Hosanna, Ethiopia. Photos, and information.
Skillshare International - Works for sustainable development in Africa and Asia by sharing skills. Information about current vacancies, and their Action Health programme.
Hands Around The World - Sends volunteers to a range of projects in poor communities. Annual report, project details, and information about volunteering.
British Executive Service Overseas (BESO) - Development agency that offers professional expertise to organisations in developing countries. Information on volunteering, getting help, donations and travel service.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) - UK - An international network of volunteers, field projects and offices aiding victims of armed conflict, epidemics, and other disasters. Information about its activities, advocacy, and opportunities to support its programmes.
International Voluntary Service (IVS) - The UK branch of Service Civil International. Information about projects world-wide, and for volunteers on short and longer-term programmes.
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. -- Oscar Wilde "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. -- Robert M. Pirsig As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Volunteering We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. -- Anonymous Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. -- G. K. Chesterton Volunteering "Ah! 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The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein Volunteering The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a State depend. -- Benjamin Disraeli If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -- Thomas Szasz "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Volunteering Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. -- Sigmund Freud Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. -- Robert Browning If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything. -- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Volunteering America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. -- Arnold Toynbee The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him. -- Cher Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. -- Albert Einstein With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. -- Abraham Lincoln If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong? -- Jenny Weber Volunteering The love we give away is the only love we keep. -- Elbert Hubbard "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. -- Sacha Guitry Volunteering Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. -- Mark Twain "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Volunteering One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. -- Henry Ford All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control futur Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Volunteering "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe. -- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery. -- Victor Hugo When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Volunteering One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way. -- Vincent Van Gogh Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality. -- Ralph Marston "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Volunteering The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. -- ROBERT FROST You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. -- Henny Youngman "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Volunteering I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest. -- Alexandre Dumas pere The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it. -- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Volunteering And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. -- Grandma Moses Victory belongs to the most persevering. -- Napoleon Bonaparte It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. -- Will Rogers It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. -- Jane Austen He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. -- J. Heller Volunteering "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. -- St. Francis of Assisi Volunteering The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. -- Dag Hammarskjold It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. -- Gore Vidal "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality. -- Theodor Reik If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. -- Elbert Hubbard Volunteering "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. -- Napoleon Bonaparte Volunteering Everything has been figured out, except how to live. - Jean-Paul Sartre "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails? -- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Volunteering If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed. -- Beau Brummel "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny. -- Gloria Vanderbilt Volunteering Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. -- Virginia Woolf "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. -- Jean Kerr Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. - Saint Augustine My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. -- Christopher Morley Volunteering Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. -- Semisonic, Closing Time "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Volunteering
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