How would a sixteeen year be able to be involved in humanitarian work like Angelina Jolie does?
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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 :)
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First you need to pick a part of the world you want to go to.  Then try searching in Google for "volunteer NGO ___" the blank being where you want to work.  You'll soon have way too many options to choose from (you might also want to decide what kind of a project you want to work on - i.e. education, health, family planning, etc.)\n\nidealist.org is one of the biggest sites for this kind of thing.  A quick Google search would bring up dozens of others.
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Volunteer at a daycare centre. That's what I did, and a year later they hired me as a part-time staff.
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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.
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its really a kind thing u have thought about. such tasks require great passion and the determination. search for the people who also want to be the part of this noble deedif not then u can start with small things urself as great work requires no assisstance. it requires only will.....locate the areas which are best suited i mean the place u think to start with... understand their basic requirement... then prepare a detailed study of that ... once u r prepared with ur study... look for existing NGOs. what are their startegy... once u r done with ur basic study on this ... u will clearly see ur way....People leaves a benchmark for others!!!!please reach out for any clarification.Thanks!
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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.
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When I went to Mexico for a missions trip in middle school with my youthgroup, we were encouraged to write letters to friends and family asking for any amounts that they could send and prayers. You could also write to members of your church that you are close to or even have the church post a bulletin to raise money for her to go. She could also (even the whole group) hand out flyers saying that she wants to do yard work, odd jobs, babysitting etc. for money for her missions trip. Three years is plenty of time to raise that amount of money.
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Since you want to travel and do humanitarian work, check out this website for the "Mercy Ship":\nhttp://www.mercyships.org.uk/volunteer.htm\nIf you are from the USA, you should also check the "Peace Corps":\nhttp://www.peacecorps.gov/\nBut if you are from Canada, check the following:\nhttp://www.cuso.org/home/index_e.php\nhttp://www.wusc.ca/
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please try to connect with some human rights group at the first instance,also remember dont give up and ask for help from save the children,unicef,plan international organizations net works available in ur country.
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Well, maybe get in touch with an International Organization like the Red Cross and inquire with them, to what you can offer and what the family needs and how you can contribute to thier succesful adventure.\n\nI'm sure there has to be something, like Habitat for Humanity, or some such thing like that...\n\n\nJesse
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Check out their website. UN and Red Cross usually hire people with experience. You may want to volunteer for some time, just to give your resume some experience, You may want to consider other top NGOs to work with too... try United Way or Cancer Society or Imran Khan's agency. The best way to start is to get a resume ready, start calling/ emailing agencies you'd want to work with. \n\nIts a wonderful and rewarding area of work. Am sure you'd find work you'd like. Talk to someone in your local mosque/gurudwara too.\n\nUse the Internet gal!
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Maybe a psychologist, social worker, or a victim's advocate who would work with abused women or children.  Perhaps you could work in a drug rehab or half way house, but get a degree, so you get paid well; few people have good skills like yours.
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I think your first step would be to volunteer at one first. Once you get the hang of it you'll have MANY connections to start your own.
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i don't think it will, at least not in the near future.  they are too busy blowing themselves or others up to do much humanitarian work.
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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.
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One very good way is to set up an organization that would help people find children that needed and wanted to work.  There are many tings that people under the so called working age can do.  \n\nBy setting up a non profit and voluntary group in the neighborhood to oversee the work that children do you can help prevent abuse of children.  \n\nChildren should work according to their age and ability at an early age to learn.  \n\nToo many in the developed nations do not learn the value of work and work ethics while young and when they become adults have a very difficult time coping with life as it really is.  \n\nMost people in the so called west have too much and do not value what they do have.  Most are like spoiled brats all their lives.
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That would be nice but there have always been and always will be selfish people. Take the high road and do volunteer work for change. You won't be able to change the whole world but you will be able to improve some of it and in turn those you've helped will likely help someone too. Good luck.