There are few places in the world that you can visit knowing that one day they will cease to exist. There are even fewer opportunities to volunteer and has a lasting impact on sustaining a culture of human rights, even when national home from that culture developed no longer otherwise. Volunteer work as a teacher in The Republic of the Marshall Islands by WorldTeach, a nonprofit founded by students at Harvard University, place volunteers exactly this chance.
Awareness of the threat to the Island Nations arising from rising seas have become more prominent as discussions related to climate change and sustainability continue to engage broad audiences. in 1999, Two uninhabited Kiribati Islands disappeared in the South Pacific and the risk of rising seas pose challenges for many other low-lying island nations.
Marshall Islands consist of two archipelagos of twenty-nine low-lying coral atolls, a unique geographical position with its own unique challenges. At an average height of only three meters above sea level in a narrow island can be seen from a lagoon standing on the breathtaking over the island, Marshall Islands literally disappears due to its extreme vulnerability to climate change. Physical isolation of the Islands also borrows to an indigenous culture of self-subsistence particularly secluded position in the Pacific. As a result of Marshall maintain many traditions, linked to their shipping and religious history, which has existed on the island since the pre-colonial times. Concern for environmental sustainability and cultural preservation is widespread across all aspects of the Marshall lives, creating an excellent environment for volunteers to deepen in a distinct, but changing culture.
WorldTeach offers long-term volunteer opportunities in a variety of locations throughout the world, including the Marshall Islands, which have sent volunteers since 2002. The programme offers a rare opportunity for interested in international education and training policy to give teeth to the Islands in the Government initiated the reform, which aims to revise the national curricula and comprehensive educational standards.
The minimum requirements are dictated by the WorldTeach to participate in the program, so that you can live and work in a rare and historically relevant cultural, is a native English speaker, aged between 18 and 74, and you've received a Bachelor's degree. WorldTeach's programs are funded entirely by the islands of the Ministry of education, so qualified volunteers need only pay a deposit of $ 2,000 for a 12 month programme, which is completely recovered when the program exits. The funding covers the cost of pre-departure briefings, round-trip international airfare, orientation upon arrival, accommodation, meals and health insurance.
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