Volunteer with us in Lebanon

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You want to help Syrian refugees in need? You have an interest in interfaith encounters? You have experience with teaching kids sports, arts, languages or any other activity? Come and join us in Lebanon as international volunteer! Throughout the year, we are seeking dedicated men and women who are motivated to gain a unique experience helping refugees in the field.

Living and working at our first Peace Centre in the North of Lebanon, only 12 km from the Syrian border, volunteers are directly involved in implementing an innovative approach to assisting the Syrian refugee crisis in Lebanon. As part of our ethos to bring people from different backgrounds together, opening windows of communication, our international volunteers combine forces with local volunteers in organising and implementing educational and recreational activities for children and adolescents of Syrian refugee and Lebanese host communities. Read more below about what is involved.

Please note: we are currently recruiting international and local volunteers for the following two categories:

  1. Long-term Volunteer Assistants: if you have already a good level or Arabic and if you are willing to commit for 3 months renewable. We are looking for experienced and dedicated men and women who are willing to assist in the fields of foreign language teaching (French and English), project development and youth animation.
  2. Short-term Project Volunteers: if you are a group or an individual who has special skills to offer for workshops of 2 to 6 weeks. Such projects may include but are not limited to: recreational activities (sport tournaments, mountain trails, etc.), artistic workshops (photography, music, theatre, etc.) or skills training (IT, film, etc.)

For further details, please have a look at the call for applications at the right side. Please download the respective form for submitting your application or your proposal. All further steps are indicated in the forms.

Volunteer with us from home

We ask for your understanding that we have to stick to a couple of criteria for the selection of our volunteers at the R&R Peace Centre in Lebanon. Most notably, we have to insist on the minimum age and on some experience in the work we do. However, even if you do not fulfil the criteria to be selected as a volunteer at the R&R Peace Centre, you can support our mission from home by becoming an Associate Member of R&R International.

We do not have any overhead staff. All those supporting our work abroad are volunteer members. Also your help is needed. Here some ideas of what you can do:

  • Spread the word about our methodology in your home community
  • Organise a screening of the documentary film about our work or a discussion
  • Organise a fundraising event like a dinner, sponsored walk or any other collect
  • Help us with the design of communication materials: flyers, brochures, websites, etc.
  • Meet with other members and friends in your home country and connect

For joining R&R International as Associate Member, please fill out the contact form on this website and please tick the box to accept our values and norms. We will try to reply to your application within a couple of weeks.


Testimonials on our volunteer blog

Since our establishment in 2013, more than 150 international volunteers have lived and worked at our Peace Centre in the North of Lebanon. They joined forces with local volunteers from all communities and with our Lebanese or Syrian teachers.

You can find some of their testimonials on the blog space that is managed alone by our volunteers. Read some unfiltered voices from the humanitarian front:
r2volunteers.wordpress.com

How to apply?

Please download below the terms of reference and the application form for the two categories of volunteers we are currently recruiting. All further steps are indicated in the forms.
Long-term
Volunteer Assistants
3 months renewable in fixed annual terms
Call Volunteer Assistants.pdf
File Size: 619 kb
File Type: pdf
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Form Volunteer Assistants.docx
File Size: 38 kb
File Type: docx
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Short-term
Project Volunteers
between 2 and 6 weeks at any time of the year
Call Project Volunteers.pdf
File Size: 91 kb
File Type: pdf
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Form Project Volunteers.docx
File Size: 32 kb
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Your place of residence as international volunteer: our first Peace Centre in Bkarzla, Lebanon:
Situated in a green and relatively safe environment, a Christian village midst in a mixed area that has not seen major violence:

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