{"id":3315,"date":"2008-08-13T16:25:38","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T16:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/08\/13\/global-volunteering-scheme-on-offer-to-students\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T11:09:46","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T11:09:46","slug":"global-volunteering-scheme-on-offer-to-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2008\/08\/13\/global-volunteering-scheme-on-offer-to-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Global volunteering scheme on offer to students"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\"><b>Islamic Relief and Christian Aid join forces<\/b><\/p>\n<div><strong>ISLAMIC Relief and Christian Aid have joined forces to offer students the chance to volunteer abroad without the worry of costing.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The charities, will offer 18-25 year olds, who wouldn\u2019t otherwise have the opportunity to volunteer abroad, the chance to spend 10 weeks living and working in a poor community in countries like Ghana, South Africa, Peru or India.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The scheme, called Platform2, is a free volunteering project funded by the Department for International Development, and has the backing of Dragon\u2019s Den entrepreneur Duncan Bannatyne.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>It will also be run by BUNAC who specialise in volunteering and working abroad. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Mark Vyner, Platform2 Head of Programme, said:\u00a0 \u201cEmployers have told us that volunteering on a CV looks good &#8211; it shows someone has initiative, drive and will have a level of maturity above those coming straight from education. Platform2 offers all participants a great experience and will help them stand out from the crowd in the job market.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Zina Lewis, a Platform2 volunteer from London who has just returned from Ghana, said she learned invaluable skills during her volunteering work. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>She said: \u201cIt\u2019s a life-changing experience\u2026..It will be very helpful when it comes to getting jobs because it was quite character-building and shows a lot about you: that you\u2019ve donated your time and gone to live with a group of people that you don\u2019t know, Big Brother-style; that you\u2019re a team player who can work with others and that you have social skills.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>For more information on how to apply for Platform2 visit <a title=\"http:\/\/www.myplatform2.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myplatform2.com\/\">www.myplatform2.com<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamic Relief and Christian Aid join forces ISLAMIC Relief and Christian Aid have joined forces to offer students the chance to volunteer abroad without the worry of costing. &#13; The charities, will offer 18-25 year olds, who wouldn\u2019t otherwise have the opportunity to volunteer abroad, the chance to spend 10 weeks living and working in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}