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Globalteer
is a UK
registered non-profit charity that serves to help those in need. They place volunteers overseas to work with projects that
need your help. A donation is required for a volunteer placement to ensure the continual existence and improvement of the project. As a registered charity, Globalteer is legally required to ensure that 100% of all monies received are used
to promote the charitable objectives. Globalteer is an organisation independent of government, politics and religion with the objective to help projects and communities around the world.
The
Globalteer Mission is to:
Support - to provide support to communities and projects in need
Awareness - to raise awareness in developed countries of the plight faced by poverty stricken countries
Education - educate locals & volunteers about environmental issues and the need to protect wildlife
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Globalteer aims to promote sustainable
development for the benefit of the public by the relief of poverty and the improvement of the conditions of life in socially
and disadvantaged communities.
Sustainable development
means “development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet
their own needs”.
Many volunteer placement organisations are commercial companies that do not support the children, communities or project financially. This is where Globalteer
is different, not only do they want to financially support the children and projects, they are legally required to do so in
accordance with UK law. Registered charities
have a very high status and must act in accordance with the charitable objectives at all times.
Globalteer works closely with its in country projects, providing
financial support and volunteers to assist in the daily running of the projects. Their vision is for the projects to be sustainable
and eternal. They strive to ensure that their projects can not only sustain the amazing work that they do but also expand
to ensure their continual existence. Globalteer holds a policy that the volunteers will not replace local employment but the
donations supplied will pay for local support staff and permanent employment at the projects. Volunteers provide their individual
skills and financial donations to enable the projects to exist and expand. Many of Globalteer’s projects are in extremely
poor countries where funding to help the least fortunate is unavailable, volunteers from overseas make the continual existence
of the projects possible.
Globalteer are an organisation independent
of government, politics and religion with the objective to help projects and communities around the world. They work in poverty
stricken countries to provide assistance to those most in need.
They send volunteers to schools
to provide free education to children who are unable to pay fees to go to local schools. They work closely with centres that
care for children providing support and funding to allow a safe and comfortable environment in the most important and vulnerable
time in their lives. In developing countries the poorest people are often overlooked as there is little governmental funding
available to provide support. They work with projects that help the most vulnerable children and communities. By providing
an education and vocational training to children they give them an opportunity to break the relentless cycle of poverty and
support their own families by becoming a useful and productive member of their society.
Globalteer also work with environmental
and animal rescue projects.
They believe that communities and
their environment are inter linked - if we destroy the environment we also destroy the community. Globalteer also believe
that endangered animals should be protected. They are against the exploitation of animals for tourism, medicine and the illegal
wildlife trade. The projects provide a safe environment for animals of all circumstances - whether rescued from the illegal
trade or unwanted pets. The animals are either repatriated into their natural habitat or if this is not possible then homed
in a safe and respectful environment for the remainder of their lives.
Globalteer is in need of dedicated
volunteers to work on their current projects in Cambodia (children), Peru (children),
Colombia (children), and Thailand (animals & elephants)
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CAMBODIA KIDS PROJECT
The Cambodia Kids project is located in Siem Reap near the
UNESCO designated site of the Angkor Temples. The project is dedicated to the care and education of the poorest and most
vulnerable children of Cambodia.
The project includes a free education programme, orphanages, water filter production and a day centre for the street
kids.
Volunteer
duties include teaching English and helping out in the day centre or orphanages. Assisting the local staff, play games,
sing songs, draw pictures and become a mentor to the children. Assisting in the manufacture of the water filters, taking the
filters into the Cambodian countryside for distribution to villages.
Free Education Programme
Provides local children that are unable
to afford the government school fees with the opportunity of a free education. One of the schools is run by Buddhist Monks
who teach children from ages 5 to 16 a variety of subjects including English and Japanese. The school has 4 classrooms and
500 students who attend the school for a few hours each throughout the day. Due to the local tourist industry, 90% of the
jobs available in Siem Reap require English to be spoken. The children are very enthusiastic about learning and very much
appreciate hearing good English being taught and spoken by the volunteers. Volunteers assist the local
teaching staff and teach English or Japanese. Teach sports, arts and fun activities.
Street Kids Day Centre
Provides local street kids with a safe
environment for the children to play, learn, rest, wash and eat. The 60 children registered to attend the centre are amongst
the poorest and the most vulnerable, spending their day on the streets, begging and selling trinkets. The lucky ones chosen
to attend the centre can spend part of their day in a safe environment and have the opportunity to escape their desperate
situation to play and act like children once more. On Saturday the centre is open to all the local children who cannot be
accommodated during the week. The activities include games with the children, assisting the teachers, helping the older children
gain the skills for later in their lives and providing hugs as and when required! Volunteers assist the local staff, play
games, sing songs, draw pictures and become a mentor to the children.
Orphanages
The project supports three orphanages
that provide a safe home for more than 80 children as well as supporting the poorer children in the local community. The children
live in ''family'' groups of five or more. They live in individual houses with a stable carer, while they attend school and
receive agricultural and vocational training. An emphasis is put on teaching traditional Khmer dance, music and handicraft
arts, which were repressed during the Khmer Rouge regime. The children, some of whom are HIV+, also receive regular health
checks from the Angkor Children's hospital. Relationships with friends and relatives are nurtured by regular trips for the
children to their home villages. Volunteers assist the local staff, teach English, play games, sing songs, draw pictures and
provide individual skills to the project.
Water Filters
In Cambodia, 1 in 7 children die before the age of five from preventable diseases
such as typhoid, malnutrition, malaria, and dengue. The common denominator in many of these is waterborne illness. To address
this issue we work with an organisation that is constructing and providing bio-sand water filters. They are a low cost way
to provide potable water to impoverished areas from any water source (ie: pump wells, pit wells, rivers, ponds). Bio-sand
water filters are a new technology to Cambodia.
They are made of gravel, sand and cement at a cost of US$45 per filter. The filters are easy to construct with locally available
materials, install and maintain. The filtration media consists of a layer of gravel, a layer of course sand, and a layer of
fine sand. The biolayer holds the key bacteria essential to removing 98% of biological pathogens and 100% parasites. Water
poured through the filter processes at a rate of one liter per minute. Each filter can optimally filter 50 to 80 liters of
water per day. Volunteers assist in the manufacture of the water filters, take the filters into the Cambodian countryside
for distribution to villages.
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For
more information please click here or use the following contact details:
Website: www.globalteer.com
Email: info@globalteer.com
Contact: Globalteer
54 Woodchester
Yate
Bristol
BS37
8TX
Telephone: + 44 (0) 7771 502816
Globalteer
is registered as a Charity in England and Wales
(no. 1119706) and is a non-profit company limited by guarantee with Companies
House (no. 05839604)
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Information reproduced with the kind permission of Jim Elliott, Globalteer
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