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Placements
 
Volunteering projects students may be involved in for this program include:
  • Caring
  • Community aid and development
  • Peace-building
  • Agriculture
  • Teaching English to primary and secondary school students
  • Working with the disabled
  • International policy making
  • Environment
  • Sport
  • Refugee settlement projects
  • Working in orphanages
  • Working in health related projects
  • Building, repair and maintenance projects
  • Financial literacy training

As part of their assessment, students will be required to keep a diary recording their experiences. This could be a video diary, blog, conventional or e-diary.

Students must be aware that all overseas placements are subject to travel advisories issued by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). The University reserves the right to restrict travel by students to countries which are the subject of a DFAT non-essential travel warning. Students who are already in-country at the time an elevation of a DFAT warning will be required to make immediate plans to return to Australia.

Students will not be allowed to travel to the following countries: Afghanistan, Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East Timor, Fiji, Haiti, Indonesia, (including Bali), Iraq, Israel, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, Ivory Coast , Lebanon, Liberia, Saudi Arabia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen (North and South).

Students who are unable to go overseas but still express a desire to be involved in the volunteer Program will be offered local opportunities that have a distinctive international dimension. For example, students will be able to undertake volunteer work through the local chapter of the Australian Refugee Association.
 

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