How would a sixteen year old like me able to get invovled in humanitarian work like Angelina Jloie does?
205609
Please don't use HER as your role model.  She is such a loser.\n\nGo on line and do a search in your area under teen humanitarian volunteer programs.  Something should show up.\n\nGood luck to you.  You sound like you are on the straight and narrow :)
616983
I would write your Government letters, state your ideas with a detailed plan. You may have to do this several times before you get recognition. (since age is such a prevalent thing, I wouldn't mention it right away). And try to find some way to get that education, research financial aid. There is certainly a strong base for learning and comprehension on your part already, you are a well spoken person, so use this to your advantage.
192631
Your only sixteen!!!! Chill out, you will fill out nicely when there's are down to their knees.
460031
You sound just like my daughter...who is also 16...lol. Don't be in a rush. It's not as easy as you might think.
150223
Well you could make a website and advertise on some of the free search engines, for the helpline but you'd need to pick something you know alot about.  You could just help out here on answers, that would help people and you wouldn't need to do anything more than drop in when you had time to reply.  You didn't say your age, but it's nice you wanna help people.  Maybe someday you can have your own restaruant and once a week help people by giving out tickets to fill out with a once a week drawing for a free dinner for 4 or something.
382005
go down to a recruitment office in your town or city, they will be MORE than happy to sign you up.  just make sure you really want to do these things.
548670
You must be 18 and be a caring, responsibe person.  You need to be literate and able to take orders but also work on some initiate.  I dont know what the entry qualifications are now...they have changed since I was nursing.
502752
If you want to answer the first one, search the web for charity, environmental, social justice, or other volunteer or activist groups who are being pro-active about making the world a better place.  Read up on what they are doing and try to think of some ideas of your own.\n\nAs for the second question, how the hell do you expect us to help you with THAT?!?  We don't even know you, much less know your strengths and weaknesses!  You'll just have to think and figure it out on your own!  Sheesh...
305472
The absolute best thing you could do would be to graduate from a good college with a degree in Civil Engineering and an emphasis on hydraulics. You could then install drinking water and sewage systems in places around the world. You’d feel good. You’d save the eldest daughter in each family in each village 2 hours a day; she would not have to go to the river for drinking water, then boil it. Because the risk of cholera and about 14 other water-borne diseases would go down, your work would save 40 – 50 lives a year. You’d help preserve the rain forest, too, since the villagers wouldn’t have to chop down trees to get wood for Eldest D. boil their drinking water.\n\nHaving a general desire to do good is one thing; most developing countries have lots of those kind of people themselves. Being able to build foot bridges, water systems, rural health clinics or accounting systems; knowing how to teach English, science and math is another.\n\nThe Peace Corps is a little like a computer dating service. Developing countries ask for people with specific skills. Applicants have certain skills. The PC has to match the skills the countries asked for with the skills the applicants have. A graduate in Civil Engineering, straight out of college, can start at $60,000 a year in California. Very few of them join the Peace Corps, but most developing countries would LOVE to have a dozen of them. On the other hand, these developing countries rarely ask for 18-year olds with no skills but good hearts.\n\nThe Peace Corps doesn’t have to choose between person “A”, with no skills but a tremendous desire to serve, and person “B”, with tremendous skills and no desire to serve. Person “B” would not apply to the Peace Corps, and even if he did, he’d quit the first time he had to eat rice with his fingers or use a squat toilet without running water. They really like people with great skills and a great desire to serve. Their second choice is someone with tremendous skills and an acceptable desire to serve.\n\nContact the United Way in your town. They will know of lots of agencies who are looking for volunteers. \n\nThe 18-year olds in the Peace Corps have enormous skills. They may be able to teach small engine repair because they can take apart small engines with their eyes closed and put them back together. They may have been a 4-H leader and can advise farmers on how to increase their crop yield 12%, or run a chicken farm.\n\nI taught English for two years in the Peace Corps, 30 years ago. One of my former students is now a lawyer. Another is an engineer.\n\nWrite if you'd like to know more.
451358
u may try colleges or red cross.
354655
How about volunteering with something like Doctors without borders - or the Peace Corp.  lots of change, adventure, shouldn't cost you too much and you would be doing something great.\n\nOr - get a cottage on the coast somewhere and write a great novel about your life in Scotland, or Austrailia!  I'd love to read it.
665673
At any age, you want to have jobs that show that you:\n- care deeply about other people, their problems, and their pain\n- enjoy helping people with your skills and knowledge\n- enjoy learning and gaining new understanding\n- understand the value of learning beyond just the subjects you take in school\n- are interested in how the human body functions\n- are intrigued by the ways medicine can be used to improve life\n\nOne way of showing many of these things is to volunteer in a hospital, for the Red Cross or similar organization, or nursing facility. Here are some examples of these types of jobs:\nhttp://www.abbottnorthwestern.com/ahs/anw.nsf/page/volunteer?OpenDocument#who\nhttp://www.sazredcross.org/GetInvolved/youth_opportunites.htm\nhttp://www.baptisteast.com/career/volunteering/teen.cfm\nhttp://www.cincinnatiredcross.org/MainRedCross/pages/Youth/Volunteen.htm\nhttp://www.thewartburg.org/volunteers.htm\n\nCheck with your local hospitals, Red Cross, and nursing facilities for more information.\n \nThis web site has tons of information about volunteer and other work opportunities for kids and teens:\nhttp://www.idealist.org/kt/index.html\n\nOnce you graduate from high school, you can find paying work as an aide in a hospital or an aide in a long-term nursing facility. Here's an example of such a job:\nhttp://www.ohsu.edu/hr/jobs/job_details.cfm?job_posting_id=IRC15882\n\nThis web site has a variety of information to help you continue making the decision about being a doctor.\nhttp://www.aamc.org/students/considering/decision.htm
53269
NO!\nIf your serious about helping do not ask for money. Spend a few years volunteering for an non- profit 501c3 organization that helps people in this country.Learn how the business functions in every aspect.Establish a good reputation and save your money. You can start your own non-profit organization and qualify for government grants and aquire private donations.You can tailor the provisions you make to what is in your heart.\nYou might also think of becoming a nurse that specializes in third world countries health needs. Travel and help them first hand.
640682
Do you belong to a church?  Many churches have youth groups that get involved in humanitarian work.  Since you are so young, you should talk to your parents as well since you will probably need their permission to participate in any efforts.
435574
Call your local Peace Corps recruiter and ask. Learn to put that "s" on the end, too.\n\nWhen I was a volunteer, 35 years ago, if someone in your family died or had a life-threatening accident/disease, they flew you home for 5 days, then back. It had to be serious - not just for Aunt Matilda's birthday. You'll be leaving your school, clinic or engineering department in the lurch.\n\nIf it doesn't work out they fly you home too, for free. The only restriction is you can't lolly-gag around. (If you do the full two years, you can take as long as you like to go home. Many of my fellow volunteers went around the world on their way home from Malaysia.)\n\nThe recruitment process is more than a job interview. They want to make sure you fit, and will stay. They try for stable people with  reasonable expectations. You should be able to make an informed guess about the job before you leave the USA.\n\nThey don't always pick perfectly. 25% of my group left during training.\n\nThese two policies may have changed slightly in the years, which is why I advised you to call a recruiter. There is a Peace Corps office in most major cities, and the national site has an 800 number.
506978
You would not be able to get a proper job at this age \nbut try these\n\nGarden mowing\nPainting fences and walls of neighbours\nDoing small chores of neighbours\nBringing groceries for neighbours\nWashing cars\netc
474604
Contact a social service agency in your area. See what programs there are for a young gal with those characteristics. Get all the details, talk to people yourself. Then just be there to support your sister. Maybe you can even get someone to come to your house to talk to her. Consider talking to her family physician as well. Good luck!