Social Work Volunteer Opportunities

Activism 2.0: Thousands of Indian students took part in a protest against violence targeted at Indian students in Melbourne last year (Wikipedia). Thousands of Indians with similar concerns are raising their voices online.  

You can end poverty right from your desktop. Your one click a day can feed millions of hungry people. With free social tools like Facebook, Twitter and Youtube, you can easily connect with like-minded people, organize social events to create awareness or engage them for a cause.

Welcome to the era of online activism. Today movements start and take momentum on the net. Social media provides us an opportunity to reinvent the world with better tools of communication.

Take Jaago Re! for instance. We act as a social platform between NGOs and individuals. We want to make volunteering simple and exciting. We invite and encourage people to help solve big problems of our country through their individual efforts. You can join us here to aide a cause or to share your ideas and experiences.  You can also join us on Facebook and Twitter to meet like-minded people and take part in our ongoing conversation.

If you spend a lot of time online, check out these online initiatives to get involved: 

Bhookh.com

A click a day can keep hunger away. Visit the website and click on ‘Give Free Food’ button! Your job’s done for the day. Next day onward, that’s the first thing you do whenever you surf the net. In 2009, Bhookh.com fed over one lakh chronically hungry people this way.

One of the leading NGOs in India, Bhookh.com works closely with the government and the UN-WFP. To find out how it works, click here. 

RangDe.org

Do you want to start a business? Visit RangDe.Org. Find borrowers. Invest. Get returns.  You got your business. It’s that simple.

RangDe is a platform for social investors and rural entrepreneurs in India. On RangDe, you can choose and lend an entrepreneur as little as Rs. 100. You can keep tracks of your investments, receive regular updates on how your money is being utilized and also get financial returns on your investment.

Read this before you invest.  

BellBajao.org

Are you a victim of domestic violence? Do you know one? Bell Bajao is an online initiative by Breakthrough, an international human rights organization, which empowers and encourages women of domestic violence to speak up.

Bell Bajao addresses critical global issues including violence against women, sexuality and HIV/AIDS, racial justice, and immigrant rights using the power of popular culture, media, leadership development and community education.

See what Bell Bajao has to say about the use of social media on Jaago Re!

We often get lost in the universe of information online. Save your time. Learn to use the net wisely. With power comes a great responsibility! Jaago Re!

Infograph from Digiactive.org.