How to be a Good Nabuur
This story comes from those good folks over at Ode. Remember the days of VSO, working abroad as a volunteer, helping out in any way you could? Well now you can do it from the comfort of your own home.
Nabuur.com has launched an online resources to connect villages with helpers…online. Projects get posted up and help asked for. Then volunteers with particular skills can connect with these projects and provide the service. It sounds like another great way to connect people and let ideas and skills flow around the system.
It also allows for a wider pool of people to offer up knowledge and skills they have but may, for whatever reason, not be in a position to share in person.
Thank you for mentioning NABUUR. It’s interesting you ”compare” VSO and NABUUR. I think NABUUR and VSO could be good partner and can complement eachother!
Think about the possibilities for NABUUR to have local presence and giving volunteers the opportunity to go to the Village they assist online. Think about the increase of sustainability when projects could have an online component: as a volunteer you can check-in daily and follow the village where you volunteered (for years and years). You can even keep on assisting the project online!
Thanks for mentioning!
Gerdie Schreuders
Marketing manager NABUUR
Hey Gerdie,
Thanks for dropping in. Yes the potential of your project is vast. It could even connect with something like Kiva and really help generate a vortex of positive energy towards empowering communities.