UnitingWorld is committed to “connecting communities for life”. That’s why, each year we offer over 100 volunteer Experience Placements with our Partner Churches throughout Africa, Asia and the Pacific. The placements aim to strengthen links between our partner Churches while transforming the lives of those trapped in poverty.

Right now our volunteers are giving their time, energy, and skills to serve on behalf of all members of the Uniting Church in Australia. All placements are at the specific request of our international Church Partners. We work with our Partner church, looking at their requirements and finding suitable volunteers.

You may be a teacher, a mechanic or a farmer. You may be a specialist in IT, business administration, youth work or public health. We need people who want to share the hope of Christ and learn more of what He is doing in His world. Our primary need is for people who will live in communities, sharing lives in a real, day-to-day way.

UnitingWorld Experience is committed to a high standard of ethics and submits to all required checks for volunteers relating to child safe practices.

Click on the map above or click here to browse available Experience Volunteer Placements

Click here to read about our current volunteers working overseas.

We are urgently seeking suitably qualified candidates for the following placements:

1. Eye Care specialists / Optometrists in Vanuatu

• Train local people and nurses who are then placed in strategic areas throughout the country;
• Create a network of people with the skills of basic diagnosis and refraction;
• Provide services from the team of professionals (mainly Australian) to remote areas that at present have no access to eye care and cannot be serviced locally; and
• Establish an edging laboratory in Port Vila that can supply optical prescriptions to orders placed by the trained personnel, at locally affordable prices.
• Note that this assignment is supported by Australian Youth Ambassadors for Development (AYAD). AYAD is an Australian Government, AusAID initiative.

Click on the map above or click here to view a complete list of Unitingworld Experience volunteer placements

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InSolidarity: India

InSolidarity teams are part of the Experience Programs of UnitingWorld, offering participants the opportunity to visit a Church Partners of UnitingWorld as a team of individuals who are passionate about learning more about other cultures.

The next InSolidarity group will travel to India between 20th November 2010 to 3rd December 2010 to visit schools and community services run by the Church of South India.

Click here read more about joining the InSolidarity team

UnitingWorld is committed to best practices in people management, and is a full member of People in Aid.

People in Aid an internationally recognised management tool that helps agencies enhance their human resource management in an international context.

Click here to visit the People in Aid website

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