When it comes to humanitarian volunteering, how does one choose the right organization that matches their interest, experience, age, and time availability? The World Volunteers guide is a useful tool for people without previous volunteering experience abroad who want to get involved in humanitarian aid projects throughout the world. The projects listed can be either short or long-term for professionals who want to take a leave of absence or for retired professionals who want to make their skills and experience available to others. For young people without volunteering experience abroad, the World Volunteers guide lists many organizations offering work-camps to help familiarize them with development and humanitarian work worldwide. Anyone who purchases the World Volunteers guide can receive free updates via the internet, plus an extended annotated list of useful Web sites that allow the reader to find hundreds of additional projects.
Erin McCloskey spent her formative years observing nature from atop her horse while growing up in the countryside of rural Alberta, Canada. But for the past decade she has been living internationally, in northern Italy, California USA and Wellington New Zealand. Following a degree in conservation biology, several of her books are about natural history but even when writing about the countries in which she has lived or traveled, there is always an appreciation of nature and its connection to the local culture that she enjoys sharing with her readers. Erin has collaborated with various organizations around the world that implement a growing travel ethos called voluntourism, through which people can work on projects doing wildlife research, development aid or archeological/cultural research. Most recently Erin was involved in a research expedition studying the Arabian leopard in Oman, a country in which she would like to further explore and write about. Erin has also written several magazine articles for publications around the world on subjects ranging from wildlife to natural healthcare.
