Volunteer Post
Volunteering with Winrock
Selyna Buie, Winrock Agriculture Volunteer Programs Recruiter
Its National Volunteer Week! This week we celebrate all the great work volunteers do around the world to build up communities by dedicating their skills, time and energy. We are also taking the time to look towards the future and all the great opportunities that can still be met.
Since 1991, Winrock has fielded over 6,200 skilled professionals as volunteers on development programs in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eurasia, impacting thousands of people worldwide. Winrock continues to seek volunteers with a wide range of experience, including but not limited to:
Technical areas: agribusiness, entrepreneurship, marketing, international trade, food processing, access to credit, farming, agricultural sciences, nutrition, livestock development, natural resource management, community development, renewable energy, gender, education and training, engineering, and information communications technologies.
General capacity building: business planning, organizational development, management, finance and administration, human resource development, and fundraising.
Under our current West Africa Farmer to Farmer program the following countries have open opportunities:
Guinea
Business Planning to Secure Financing
ToT on Leadership and Organizational Development
Nigeria
AET Institutional Assessment and Action Plan Development- FCAHPT Ibadan
Building Faculty Pedagogical Skills to Effectively Deliver AET Curricula
Training-the-Trainers Workshop in Self-Assessment and Improvement for Universities
Building Capacity to Monitor and Evaluate Learner Success and Institutional Effectiveness
Senegal
Enriched Flour Production and Value-Added Flour Product Development
ToT on Soap Making with Agriculture products for ANAMO
Packaging, Labeling and Marketing of Processed Products
With many more to come over the next five years!
If you are interested in gaining new cultural experiences, sharing your expertise with an international audience and creating lifelong memories and friends please visit our website https://winrock.org/volunteer-application/ to apply.
You, too, can volunteer to make a difference.
