From Women in Aid & Development

“Canberra event: Volunteering and e-volunteering

6:00 pm 8:30 pm

Wednesday, 1 December

Hear from speakers who are responsible for developing and funding volunteer programs, and those who have experience volunteering overseas and in Australia. Find out how you can be engaged in meaningful volunteering, and the importance of avoiding short term unskilled or orphanage volunteering or ‘voluntourism’. “

For more information see
https://www.womeninaiddevelopment.com/events/canberra-event-volunteering

One speaker is Fiona Goggins ‘ a communications professional with experience in the public, private and non-profit sectors.

Before the pandemic she was on assignment through the Australian Volunteer’s Program as Grants and Communications Coordinator at Tanzanian non-profit Girls Livelihood and Mentorship Initiative (GLAMI), and continues to volunteer with the organisation remotely, along with Tanzanian based organisation Male Advocacy For Gender Equality (MAFGE) and the US-based International Institute for Human Security (IIHS).

Fiona has a Bachelor of International Studies (Globalisation), a Master of Human Rights Law and Policy, and is currently completing a second Masters in Applied Anthropology and Participatory Development through the ANU. ‘