Help from Home

Introduction

We run a project called Help From School where we try to encourage students to participate in microvolunteering actions within actual lesson time! Our aim is to contribute to  a students’ moral development as part of a citizenship course. This service is free, as we’re trying to change the world, not make money from it!

There are plenty of educational establishments around the globe, but we simply don’t have the resources to sniff them out and approach them to consider incorporating microvolunteering actions within a meaningful citizenship programme. We know there’s an interest in this project from educational establishments, as we’ve received a few enquiries about it. We need volunteers to expand our reach in this area.

What’s Involved

- conduct your own search on the net, from websites that provide lists of education establishments. We’ve provided a few below

- contact schools, universities or other educational establishments and encourage them to introduce the concept of microvolunteering within a citizenship or other similar course via pre-written emails

- encourage participation in our feedback survey on microvolunteering for students

- report back to us on any other feedback you receive, so that we can improve / evolve this service

- maintain a database of who you’ve contacted

- vacancies will exist on a country by country basis. Check with us to see if your country is available

A Few More Details

Basically you’ll be acting by yourself under the auspices of the Help From Home brand, introducing microvolunteering to educational establishments within the country you wish to represent. To a certain extent you’ll be creating this role from the ground up learning from experience and feedback. As far as we know, nobody else is doing this and so the potential to create impact is enormous.

Although not a necessity by any means, this role is ideally suited to somebody who already has a background in the education environment and who wants to be a part of introducing something radical into this arena.

We welcome any input from yourself as to how to improve the service.

The Websites

We’ve listed a few websites below where details of educational establishments can be extracted:

Schools Web Directory (UK)
Directory of Schools (US)
CICIC (Canada)
Australian Schools Directory (Australia)

You

- be self motivated
- ability to work under your own initiative
- have more than a surface interest in microvolunteering
- be conversant with our ‘Help From School’ project
- have passion and commitment to make an impact within students lives
- patience and persistence

Us

- we’re very small, but have been instrumental in putting microvolunteering on the map and we fully intend to continue our pioneering efforts
- we’re all passionate volunteers with full time jobs or educational studies outside of Help From Home
- we derive no income at all from what we do
- we’re endorsed by the UK Government on their official Number 10 website, for our efforts in promoting microvolunteering

Other Stuff

- unfortunately, no expenses or salary will be paid
- volunteer whenever you want to
- volunteer from your own home or wherever is convenient for you

I Want To Help

You do! Glad to hear it. Get in touch using the form on the Contact Us page. Look forward to hearing from you.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give us – it’s very much appreciated.