With a core mission to drive international skills exchange, training and empowerment, Vocational Impact recognises the need of NGOs, and the skills university students and professionals can bring to them.
Vocational Impact help international projects build and grow through research, crucial funding and sustainable development. We are driven by sustainability and development, partnering with vision focused NGOs.
Gain access to amazing local guides with local connections to take your project ambitions to the next level.
Work within a very unique and tailored subject area of your choice and design.
Introduce new music and help disadvantaged children develop their understanding of music.
Develop and work with children facing difficulties, through performing arts.
Social photography and art design projects that support HIV/AIDS awareness
Match your passion with local projects and people
Pre-departure brief support to ensure you achieve your aims and outcomes.
Experience new and beautiful places
Live with a local host, eat local food and immerse yourself within a new culture.
Work directly with the director and stakeholders to understand key operations from the inside of an international NGO on the front line of HIV/AIDS care.
You will learn NGO approaches to difficult business challenges, and work on development plans including; governance, finance, sustainability, and community impact.
You will develop an understanding of the political and economical influences on an international NGO.
You will help raise awareness by increasing the profile and spreading the key messages, work, development and successes. This will give you valuable experience in building and implementing marketing and fundraising campaigns and build valuable relationships to enhance their network of funders.
You will develop your content and communication management skills to create donor campaigns and promote messages throughout target networks and communities
Child development psychology and mental health issues
Social psychology; develop and support with the best and safest ways to disclose HIV/AIDS, including education and information around child and teenage depression
Development from infancy, using play therapy and art therapy techniques
Work on and support with anger management workshops
Understand and work with bereavement and grief caused by HIV/AIDS
Society, politics and prejudice issues around developmental psychology
Society, crime and the criminal justice system
Help develop and support with gratitude workshops and diaries
Look at conflict resolution and develop skills training for residents
Develop sexual boundaries and consequence practice.
Working with residential mums and children on self reliance