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Get involved as a RGV returnee

Have you recently returned to your home country and would like to continue to get involved? Then get involved as an RGV returnee! Because your commitment is at home as important as your commitment in our target countries.

Your temporary engagement in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Oceania or Europe was certainly a very personal and forward-looking experience. Through Learning by doing you have been able to develop and sharpen intercultural and global skills.

So much the better that you are yours now Sharing knowledgewant to continue to work for your project, your target country or generally for a just world!

Your private commitment

Your private commitment

Through your experience abroad you can help a To create awareness for the challenges and abuses in your target country. Encourage your personal environment to think. Get involved as an RGV returnee by ...

  • invite your friends and family to a photo event and report about your work abroad. Tell your listeners about local events from your own experience.
  • a contribution to your experiences for that RGV magazine or your local newspaper written.
  • together with other returnees Organizing an event at your college or in your churcheg a movie evening on educational poverty, hunger or water scarcity.
  • us one detailed report send from your volunteer work. Thanks for sending one field report (including photos) you will receive from us small gift.
  • us up Trade fairs and information events supports and lay out catalogs in your area. Advise future volunteers when planning their stay abroad and tell them about your personal experiences in your target country. Your bet will of course start with a Compensation rewarded!

Your involvement in charitable initiatives

Besides, you can talk to yours bring in newly gained insights from charitable associations, initiatives or university groups. Numerous associations are represented throughout the German-speaking area, for example local groups from Amnesty International, UNICEF, Global Marshall Plan, Rock Your Life or Engineers Without Borders.

For example, you can register with your city as Fair Trade Town Apply to work for better working conditions in production facilities in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe. Or you can become a guide in your city in the network of world conscious and explain to people how they can contribute to sustainable development through responsible purchasing decisions. Or donate time for one charitable project in your city over the platform betterplace. As you can see, your options are numerous.

Global learning and education for global citizenship - buzzwords you may have heard before - are effective tools for promoting peaceful coexistence in our world. If you have been involved in one of our target countries for a whole year, you can become a speaker for global learning at Commitment Global apply. The “Engagement Global GmbH – Service for Development Initiatives” is the contact in Germany for development-political engagement, nationally and internationally.

Supported projects of RGV

With the steady increase in target countries at RGV, our non-profit associations and donation projects abroad also grew. With our associations in Ghana, Nepal, South Africa and Uganda we support local education and infrastructure projects. Those involved on site are very happy about yours Time donations in the form of pro bono consulting (administrative support, marketing, PR, grant application) or Material donations in the form of textbooks, pencils and technical equipment, Donations are also welcome.

Do good and report about it

Get involved as an RGV returnee and let other former volunteers and us know exactly what you are doing. We look forward to reporting on your commitment in our magazine or on social media! With your reporting you motivate other returnees to volunteer in their home town.

International Bachelor Program: Migration and Integration

WHAT? Migration and integration are future issues that are changing our society. During your studies you will learn to analyze and understand our social coexistence and the topic of migration and integration from different perspectives. For example with the help of political and economic knowledge, but also through sociological and educational approaches. You will acquire the skills you need to handle migration and integration-specific tasks in the education, social and healthcare sectors or in administration, culture, business and politics in a responsible and qualified manner.

TO WHOM? You are interested in other cultures and languages, are open to new perspectives and want to move something in society? You have already gained experience abroad and would like to deepen it during your studies? The study program offers an international, socio-scientific and practice-oriented study. It includes a compulsory one-year stay abroad. The courses take place in German and English. During your studies you will learn or deepen another foreign language (eg Spanish or French).

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Questions about the cooperation or the developmental commitment in the environment of RGV? Then just take it Contact with our RGV team in Munich!

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