Welcome To Vibrant World Foundation
I spoke of how to measure success when volunteering while I was at a nursing home in Mexico. I also had my crisis in Honduras, questioning everything.
I would say now, at my current level of naievity, my definition of helping people is as follows:
Listening to their issues and problems. When building a bridge you start at both ends and meet in the middle. Assume you know nothing about rural poverty in South America or urban poverty in Asia.. because you don’t! Many people have no idea about the poverty in their own countries, in fact. So be humble and listen.
Creating multipliers. That is, helping people help themselves in an exponential way. For example, helping mothers often has the side-effect of helping children.
Improving communities to be more self-sustaining.
I’m not always able to find volunteering assignments that are multipliers, but I see this trip as my university – my insight into the world accumulating insight and knowledge (what corporate tools might call “capital”) so I can spend it in a positive way afterward.
While being interviewed by a journalist in Singapore for The Business Times, he told me about Bunker Roy. Basically, he gave up a good life (top schools, was a top athlete in India, and ready for a diplomatic career) to help the rural poor. He is fantastically entertaining and beautifully inspiring.
Vibrant is always on the lookout for committed and capable volunteers. While some Vibrant departments require specific skill sets, in many other cases a willingness to assume responsibility while learning simple new systems is what we need..
Vibrant Give is a quick and easy way to collect money for an NGO or charity of your choice. You provide details of why you're raising funds for a cause close to your heart. Vibrant uses these details to create an Vibrant Give webpage that your friends and family can visit and donate to through a secure online donation. Vibrant will then transfer the amount you have collected to your chosen NGO. Vibrant Give provides you with a simple and convenient platform to collect money for a good cause.
A deduction is a fixed sum chosen by you being deducted from your salary every month and put into an account for you at Vibrant.org. Donating is when you log into Vibrant.org and find a cause and donation option of your choice and donate a sum of money from your account towards that..