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Use Your ESL Skills To Help Afghan Women From the Comfort of Your Home!
Use Your ESL Skills To Help Afghan Women From the Comfort of Your Home!
The Alliance for International Women’s Rights is seeking volunteer women ESL professionals who are willing to teach long-distance English classes to Afghan women.
The Alliance is a nonprofit organization devoted to supporting women’s rights efforts in the Central Asia region, including Afghanistan. Our efforts include increasing the English capacity of Afghan women leaders and future women leaders – including Afghan women’s rights workers, women politicians, women educators and promising young Afghan high school girls. The volunteer positions do not involve any travel – the ESL teachers will teach Afghan women and girls from the comfort of their own homes using Skype® and E-mail.
Volunteer requirements are as follows:
Must be a native English speaker with ESL/EFL certification or teaching experience.
Volunteers need to have a reliable computer, high-speed internet, Skype® software (free software is found at www.skype.com), and a headset. We only use Skype’s free computer-to-computer software. We do not use the paid computer-to-phone service.
The volunteers will need to be available to teach one student for two sessions a week for a minimum of three months. Each class session generally runs between 45 minutes to one hour.
We currently need teachers who are available for two class sessions during the following hours (in Afghanistan’s time zone): Sunday between the hours of 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 pm; Tuesday between 10:00 and 11:00 a.m.; Sunday and Tuesday between 8:00-10:00 a.m., Tuesday and Thursday between 1:00 to 4:00 pm and Monday; and Tuesday and Wednesday between the hours of 4:00 and 6:00 pm. Interested applicants should determine if they are available for two 45 minute or one hour sessions during these hours by comparing their local time to Afghanistan time on the following website:
http://www.timezoneconverter.com.
The time zone is the same throughout Afghanistan, so you may use the city of Kabul for the time zone conversions. We ask that you please determine your availability during the required hours before applying.
Although the Alliance welcomes volunteers of either gender in most of our programs, due to the Afghan culture we are only able to work with women teachers for this project for the safety of the Afghan women and girls.
Please consider using your skills to help Afghan women. If you are interested, please contact Lisa Herb, the Alliance’s president, at lisaherb@aiwr.org
www.AIWR.org.
