• Sharing your culture with others
• Expanding your understanding of people, the world and cross-cultural communication
• Practicing teaching skills
• Offering friendship across cultures
• Language exchange: practice a second language with a native speaker

Meetings are scheduled for one hour per week at any mutually agreed upon on or off campus location. Minimum commitment is four weeks, with the aim to continue for at least one semester (12 weeks). The topic and format of the meetings is up to the participants. Most often, participants engage in informal conversation; however guidelines and suggestions for topics if desired are available through the OISS. Meetings are usually conducted in English and no knowledge of a second language is required or even necessary.

To volunteer as an English Conversation Partner, please register online at: http://www.yale.edu/oiss/programs/volunteer/english/index.html.

For more information, please contact Amanda Eckler at amanda.eckler@yale.edu or 432-2305.

The Nurturing Families Network at Fair Haven Community Health Center is recruiting Volunteers to work with teen parents and their children!

Volunteers will care for:

Infants and young children (ages birth to five). The Nurturing Families Parenting Group program provides weekly planned activities that teach parenting skills and provide a safe environment for children to socialize and learn at the same time. Ideally, candidates would be proficient in Spanish.

Elegibilitly:

-Must be 16 years of age

-Must not have a criminal record or be a registered sex offender

-Must pass a health PPD test

Skills:

-Personal or professional experience with children

-Ability to work as a team player, both with children and parents

-Eagerness to work with children

This is an excellent and rewarding opportunity to volunteer your time and recommendations can be made for you by our group coordinator. A hot meal is provided at every session and you will not want to miss a day!! Interested volunteers should contact Carmen Camacho, NFN Group Coordinator or Ariella Gargiulo at 203-777-7411 ext.5062.

Haven Free Clinic is student-run organization that provides free health care to patients in New Haven, most of whom are Spanish-speaking.  

We are in search of Spanish-speaking volunteers to help with the clinic during the Fall  9/26/09- 12/19/09. We need volunteers with different degrees of Spanish fluency to interact and/or interpret for our patients. The clinic would serve as an excellent exposure for students interested in medicine and service in underprivileged neighborhoods.  

This Fall Haven Free Clinic will operate every Saturday morning. We provide training for the different volunteer posts and rides to and from the clinic. We are looking for students who can volunteer once or more times during the Fall.

If  interested please contact me (abel.alcazar@yale.edu) or Rachel Jamison (rachel.jamison@yale.edu).  

Thank you so much in advance.  

ABEL  

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Abel Alcázar

Haven Free Clinic

e-mail: abel.alcazar@yale.edu

http://freeclinic.med.yale.edu/index.php

Tutoring position available for 2009-2010 academic year!!
-at Wexler Grant Elementary (within walking distance of campus) !
-$15.00 per hour
-6 to 8 hours a week
-must be able to come in 3 mornings a week (either 8:30am -10:30am or 9-11am)

This structured tutoring program is dedicated to raising the literacy levels of K-2 students
For more information/directions on how to apply contact: faye.maison@yale.edu
**Please circulate among friends!

Please read the following information if you are interested in volunteering with us:

FairHavenCommunityHealthCenter, Nurturing Families Network, is recruiting interested volunteers to work as infant and child caregivers.

Volunteers will care for:

Infants and young children (ages Birth to five).  The Nurturing Families Parenting Group Program provides weekly planned activities that teach parenting skills and provide a safe environment for children to socialize and learn at the same time. Volunteers will provide support to the children's group facilitator while role modeling healthy caregiver/child interactions for parents. 

 Elegibility: 

·        Must be 16 years of age or older

*  Must have a love for children*

·        Must not have a criminal record or be a registered sex offender

·        Must pass a health PPD test

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Mission: To start an NGO that will provide AIDS/HIV testing and counseling to rural villagers and direct them to treatment. To pursue an awareness initiative to statistically at-risk populations, specifically rural villagers in developing countries

Who: A volunteer force made up of college students passionate about public health seeking global public health experience

Where: We aim to start in the rural village of Sunam, Punjab, India where field research has already been conducted by Sonia Gupta during the summer of 2008.  We hope to expand this throughout the villages of India and other developing nations.

This NGO is in its initial stages and has been working with students, professors, HIV clinics, and other AIDS/HIV organizations to materialize its unique vision.  If you are interested in becoming a part of this revolutionary effort, especially if you are looking for a leadership role in public health, please contact Sonia Gupta at sonia.gupta@yale.edu

Day 1: Orientation

            A colorful and far from homogeneous group of Yale Alumni, their families and friends as well as current students gathered in Monterrey this week to contribute their time and knowledge to make a change in Monterrey.

            Our beautiful service trip started in a beautiful, one could say isolated, place out of the city of Monterrey. We were fortunate enough to enjoy the natural surroundings and the hospitality of the facilities of the Chipinque National Park, a beautiful mountainous area that overlooks the vast city of Monterrey. On Chipinque, there is a very convenient conference center that served as the setting of the service teams teambuilding. Several speeches were offered to set the setting of the trip mission and the expectations of the participants as well as a round of introductions by the participants that meant to be very insightful of the diversity and the humanitarian motives of the whole group.

The speeches

            AYAs President, Mark Dollhopf, lead the orientation workshop and began by presenting the present of AYA. The Service Trip in 2008 in Dominican Republic being successful, gave rise to a new trip this year in Monterrey and gave more leeway to AYA and to Mark Dollhopf to envisage a new dimension of AYA and an alternative way of connecting alumni through philanthropy. Overall, according to Mr. Dollhopf AYAs new direction will be to connect alumni according their location, their vocation as well as their interests. Mr. Dollhopf made note of plans to connect the alumni of the 300+ Yale undergraduate organizations which have contributed through the years in the activities of the institution. The reason that the Yale Alumni were ...

March 7-15, 2009 

This Service Tour will engage Yale alumni and students--together with local volunteers--providing crucial community development, enrichment programs, and medical care in and around the city of Monterrey. 

This section provides information for those who are interested in applying for Dwight Hall Summer Fellowship funding. Applications for the 2010 fellowship will be through February 26, with interviews held prior to Spring Break. Download the 2010 application now.