News and Announcements
International Job Listings
I have added a section under Reference Information for
International Job Listings. In the section are links to
recruitment organizations seeking candidates for international
employment. I am not personally associated with any of the
organizations nor do I have experience with them. I have added
them due to the many requests I have had from visitors to my
website who are seeking international employment.
Bethe and Marcel
Bethe and Marcel Dufresne are journalists who live in
Connecticut. In the summer of 2009 they traveled to Kenya with
the organization American Friends of Kenya. Bethe and Marcel
wrote a series of articles about their trip for the Hartford
Courant. The articles describe their satisfying and fulfilling
experience. Below is a link to the articles.
http://www.courant.com/news/kenya/
Jill Vickers
Jill Vickers is a producer of film documentaries and also a
former Peace Corps Volunteer. Jill was a member of a Peace Corps
female vaccination teams in the late 1960’s in Afghanistan. The
women traveled throughout the country working with Afghan male
vaccinators on a small pox vaccination program done in
conjunction with the United Nations World Health Organization
(WHO). Jill produced a deeply interesting and evocative
documentary, “Once in Afghanistan”, a film in which she
interviews many of the women who served on the pioneering and
very effective teams. More information is available at:
www.dirtroaddocumentaries.com
Peggy Kelsey
Peggy Kelsey received degrees in social work and education
before undertaking extensive world travels. A professional
photographer and resident of the Austin area since 1980, Peggy
was privileged to meet with a delegation of 14 Afghan women who
passed through Austin, Texas in the fall of 2002. The strength,
humor and resiliency of the women she met was contrary to the
media image (at the time) of Afghan women as helpless victims.
This dichotomy inspired Peggy to create the Afghan Women’s
project and in August and September of 2003, Peggy spent 6 weeks
in Afghanistan and returned with portraits and stories of 40
Afghan women.
http://www.kelseys.net/wordpress/?page_id=18
Alexia Nestoria
Alexia Nestoria is a travel writer and pubic relations
specialist in the voluntourism industry who writes a blog
www.voluntourismgal.com.
The blog is a source of the latest trends, studies and
developments in voluntourism. Alexia also writes travel safety
articles for the online travel publication
www.worldnomads.com Her
articles may be accessed at:
http://journals.worldnomads.com/safetyhub/
Kirsty Henderson
Kirsty has spent over 12 months out of the past two and a half years as a volunteer. During that time she's done disaster relief work in Bangladesh, Indonesia and twice in Haiti. She has written an ebook called The Underground Guide to International Volunteering (http://www.nerdynomad.com/volunteering) which gives tips and advice to travellers who want to make their trips more meaningful through volunteering. It costs $14 with $7 of each sale being donated to Hands On Disaster Response (http://www.hodr.org), the organization she has spent so much time volunteering with.