And I am.
Nabuur.com, the global neighbor network, is an online volunteering network that lists tasks needing done: tasks requested by people in villages all over the world. Tasks you can do in the course of a few hours from your computer, when your virtual skills meet the local need posted by the village.
What is NABUUR?
NABUUR.com is a place on the Internet that connects:
Neighbours: people that want to take action now for the benefit of people in developing countries
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Villages: people in need of knowledge, contacts, and new ideas to improve their lives.
People on NABUUR have in common that they are committed Global Citizens with a drive to do something to make a difference.
Through NABUUR.com you:
Do what is really needed. People living in local communities communicate with you directly what they want; nobody else is in charge or in between.- Spend 2-8 hours behind your computer as your schedule allows and do a concrete Task that will mean so much to a community of people.
Gertie wants all of you lovely multilingual gems who come by my comment box to know that NABUUR.com needs volunteer translators, too. And not just translators!
If you've got a few hours and a hankering to help somebody in a concrete, hands-on way, the site lists all kinds of urgent tasks just waiting for your skills and energy, along with current volunteer vacancies within the NABUUR.com organization, all perfectly doable from right where you are, right now.
2 comments:
I found your blog because it has become someone's Blog of the Week, because it is really interesting reading! I wonder why it is so much better than mine. Is it because I'm stuck in Taiwan while you revel in Spain? Because you reading and know poetry? I'll have to come back and read it again, I love it! Not much I can 'borrow' from your site to improve my own other than the information on Nabuur, but that's a lot! I do wonder how people in need make it to a computer to ask for help, but I'm a sucker for such things!
Hi Edi,
I'm glad you found me. At the moment my secret seems to be "don't post often". LOL.
As for NABUUR, I had the same thought about the internet as way to do this, but they seem to have worked it out. Villages join, I believe (and there are now 151 villages in 25 countries participating) through a local facilitator, who may have internet access, or accesses through public internet nearby. Kiva (www.kiva.org, a group I post about alot and volunteer with) uses the internet as well, and I know a lot about how many folks they help; in their case a local microfinance org (which may not be in the village with the "person in need" as you put it, just in that region of a country) is the connection between you, online, your loan, and a person in need of that loan. The internet connection belongs to that microfinance org.
Nabuur works with the Clinton FOundation, so I was confident that the process works in those sites with internet nearby, and that the org had been well vetted.
Thanks for the visit! I'll be over to check out your blog!
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