Our international programs manager, Callie, presented on the benefits of virtual volunteering, and here are the bite-sized pieces for you to consider volunteering online.
1. Gain real-life and international work experience
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You’ll be in constant contact with in-country coordinators that will guide you along the way giving you unique exposure to local organizations abroad and develop cross-cultural understanding.
2. Broaden your global perspective
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Acquire the ability to collaborate with international teams and learn from local employees about the struggles, practice the language, and know the culture.
3. Develop 21st-century skills
By volunteering online, you’ll gain literacy, learning, and life skills to allow you to adapt, improve, learn, and discern facts—to help you focus and develop on certain personal or professional qualities.
4. Boost your professional resume and credentials
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With summer plans canceled and you’re stuck at home, everyone is looking at ways to spice up their resumes. Also, utilize this opportunity in a more productive way that you’re still gaining access to work and internship experiences to learn new skills.
5. Learn to use innovation and technology to drive social change
As this volunteering opportunity is entirely online, it forces you to get away from the normal structure. You’ll have to ruminate and come up with out of the box innovation to help the organization drive social impact.
Find out MORE benefits on why you should consider virtual volunteering in the video below!
ABOUT UNITED PLANET
United Planet is a non-profit organization with a mission to create a global community, one relationship at a time. Established in 2001, United Planet offers volunteer abroad, virtual internships, internships abroad, gap year volunteering, and global virtual exchange in more than 40 countries.
