Hawke Ambassador International Volunteer Experience Program
Coordinated by the School of International Studies and The Hawke Centre
International placement
After completing pre-departure preparation, students will undertake a semester length international placement in a country and a project of their choice. Students will have the option to work with one of a number of possible non-governmental agencies, including:
- AIESEC (An international student organisation located at the City West Campus of the University of South Australia)
- Australia and New Zealand Banking Corporation
- Australian Red Cross
- Australian Refugee Association
- Gap Australia
- Oxfam
- Projects Abroad
- Uniting International Mission
- Volunteering SA
- Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society
- World Youth International
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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 in 2007:
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, Nepal, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Sri Lanka,
Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
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.
The volunteering projects students may be involved in 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