5 Beneficent Websites for Online Volunteering

Volunteering is a fun and easy way to explore your interests and passions.  It provides you the opportunity to practice important skills used in the workplace, such as teamwork, communication, problem solving, project planning, task management, and organization. Volunteering is meaningful and interesting way to relax and escape from your day-to-day routine of work, school, or family commitments.

However, for many of us, our hectic schedules, personal responsibilities and glorious chores leave little room to do any volunteering. Luckily, though, there are numerous online volunteering platforms that allow you to do meaningful volunteer work from the comfort of your home.

Let's look at 5 Beneficent Websites for Online  Volunteering

5 Beneficent Websites for Online  Volunteering

1. United Nations Volunteers

The United Nations Volunteers programme offers countless of online volunteering opportunities across the world. Like the rest of the UN’s efforts, this programme strives to boost sustainable human development.

Finding an opportunity that fits your interests on the UNV website is simple. Just select your region such as Asia pacific; your country. After that click on current opportunities and then navigate through the various opportunities that come up to find something that suits you.

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2. Be My Eyes

Be My Eyes connects blind and low vision users with sighted volunteers or company representatives for visual assistance through a live video connection. In more basic terms, it allows users to have a sighted person on demand through video chat. App users can request assistance in over 180 languages, and volunteers can lend their sight and help with everyday tasks.

All you have to do is download the app and join as a sighted volunteer. Whenever a blind or low-vision person needs help, you’ll receive a live video call where you can communicate with them directly and help them out.

3. VolunteerMatch

Finding an opportunity on VolunteerMatch is pretty simple just add your location and click on find opportunities near you. You can find opportunities across a variety of sectors including arts and culture, computers and technology, advocacy and human rights, and health and medicine.

4. Catchafire

If you want to use your professional skills for good, Catchafire helps you connect with non-profits in need of your expertise and contribute to meaningful projects and initiatives. You can choose from one hour calls or full length projects.

5. DoSomething

DoSomething  is one of the largest youth-led non-profit organizations around, it pushes for social change through both its online and offline campaigns. You can volunteer online by joining one (or more) of DoSomething’s campaigns and use the platform to act on different issues.

Volunteering surely is an important act that everyone should take up at least for once in life and you can volunteer to make this world a better place to live. No matter whether you are a college student traveling abroad during your gap year or a retired personnel, you can always join a volunteering program and make a difference.