Public Relations SOS Children's Villages

 

The task of this volunteering position consists in the assistance of the manager for Public Relations of the SOS Children’s villages in Tanzania.

There are generally two work areas: Firstly, the communication between the orphans and their sponsors needs to be guaranteed and improved. The sponsors who finance the upbringing and education of a child in most cases live overseas. Therefore, the children's development must be documented in a realistic way, such as through pictures and texts, and the direct contact between child and sponsor must be facilitated. Secondly, the organisation and its goals must be advertised and communicated to the local population to achieve sponsorships of children and further donations.

Volunteers should have computer skills; particularly they should be familiar with using the internet. They should further have skills in desktop publishing, print layout and digital photography in order to produce the above mentioned reports, flyers and brochures. Basic technology is available, however it would be better if volunteers/interns could bring their own laptops with installed software for media production. The placement will take place in Dar-Es-Salaam and/or Zanzibar.

 

Our volunteer Marco has produced a very professional video about the SOS Children'S Village in Zanzibar:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcDaN92Czxk