Mapping Environmental Organizations

Details

Mission and objectives

Since 3rd November, 2011, ASCOA has been dedicated to improving the awareness of the local community on HIV/AIDS and its related stigma, promoting peace building in the society, fostering environmental protection and the fight against climate change, supporting children, and empowering women and girls in order to improve their socio-economic participation and boost their wellbeing. We envision a world free of HIV/AIDS, where people are neither stigmatized nor discriminated upon due to their HIV status; a world where women are empowered and children are protected; a world where peace reigns and people live in an environment free of pollution and global warming.

Context

ASCOA seeks to protect, preserve and improve the environment for the benefit of mankind through: - the establishment of an international network of active environmental organizations and specialists - the awareness raising of waste negative effects on the environment - the promotion of good waste management practices - the contribution to the advancement of research in waste management.

Task description

The volunteer will need to search for potential organizations that can join ASCOA's environmental network (GWCN) and communicate with them in order to register them as members. Such members could be NGOs, Educational Institutions or Private Companies working in the Environmental field or Clean (Renewable) Energy sector. There is need for 25 volunteers for the following regions: - Central Europe - Western Europe - Eastern Europe - Central Asia - Central America - Oceania In each of these regions, the assigned volunteer will work over 8 weeks on bringing in 10 to 15 organizational members.