We are always looking for flexible and passionate people from all kinds of backgrounds to join our team. Previous experience or not, we provide briefings and training to prepare members of our team for the work they will be doing. We especially encourage applications from volunteers who speak Serbo-Croat-Bosnian, French, Pashto, Arabic, Farsi, Kurdish, Turkish, Urdu, Hindi, Tigrinya, Amharic, Oromo, Thai, Vietnamese, and Punjabi.
There is a small financial contribution that is needed for each of our projects, but it equates to just a few Euros per night for the time of your placement. If you are concerned about the financial costs of volunteering, we strongly encourage you to apply: we are committed to making sure that financial barriers do not prevent anyone from volunteering with us.
We take this work very seriously and require that you do the same. We make a great effort to ensure that we do not cause any harm to the people we support or to anyone else, so we expect our volunteers to follow best practices at all times, as outlined in our Volunteer Agreement and Code of Conduct and Safeguarding Policy.’
Who can join?
What can I do?
Most of our shorter-term volunteers will be working on the ground in our various projects. Volunteers with us have cooked, driven, written, cleaned, taught, packed, organized, fundraised, posted, built, played, painted, emailed, designed, translated, collected border violence testimonies, and so much more. Whatever your skills, there’s a pretty good chance you’ll be able to put them to use volunteering with Collective Aid!
Once we have received your application, we will get back to you about the current state of our projects as well as a suggestion of what project we think would suit you best. However, while volunteers are usually assigned to a dedicated project, it is important to retain some degree of flexibility. With the ever-changing circumstances humanitarian efforts are often facing, we sometimes have to ask our volunteers to help out with tasks different to the project they may have signed up for.
