Bethsaida
Orphan Girls'
Secondary School

ContributeYour Time

Come and volunteer with us for a time. We are grateful for the donation of anyone's gifts. If you are interested in being a volunteer at our school, you may either come here privately or by using an organisation in your country which is sending volunteers to organizations abroad. We currently have relationships with IFRE and VIA e.V. for such purposes.

Volunteers who come here will be integrated into the environment quickly. They will be welcomed very warmly by our students who love getting to know new volunteers and their very different characteristics and cultural habits. During the last couple of years we have had volunteers from many different countries like the U.S., Canada, Brazil, Great Britain, Germany, Poland, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, France, Ireland, the Netherlands, Australia, Spain and New Zealand. The mixing of many different cultures at Bethsaida opens not only the volunteers' but also our students' minds and gets them interested in foreign languages and cultures.

Everybody who comes here can use their different skills: Helping the girls in their studies (especially sciences), doing arts with them, giving talks or advice about medical matters, teach them dances and songs, helping with homework corrections, etc. is of great assistance to the girls, staff and faculty. If you are thinking about staying for a longer period of time (several months), it might also be possible to teach a whole class in one subject regularly.

Apart from that you are always welcome to come up with new ideas. In the past months our volunteers have been taking the girls to the hospital for eye examinations, taking them on excursions, helping with construction projects and giving computer lessons and more.

If you are interested in volunteering at Bethsaida, please download our Application Sheet for Volunteers, fill in all the information needed and send it to Mr. Michael Machary: Michael.Machary@oloforphans.org