 | A few years ago, pediatric oncology nurse Jen Martin could never have imagined herself working in Africa to establish infection control programs. But that is exactly where her volunteer journey led her in June 2006. Uganda is enduring a social and economic crisis-the arrival of a generation of orphaned children. HIV/AIDS has devastated the country over the last 20 years. Families have been left with little support, and often depend upon the oldest child for the care of the younger children and for economic survival.
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Karen Chun has many years experience as a teacher and librarian. She has volunteered in Vietnam for 10 weeks during each of the last three summers with the nonprofit Degenhardt Foundation. Last year, with the help of fellow teacher and librarian Susan Smith, Chun raised funds to develop a library in Hoi An. They also created a club to attract the interest of local children in reading books from the library.
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Michael Costello, a research technologist at Washington State University, spent two weeks in El Salvador as a volunteer with Winrock International. Costello helped small-scale cheesemakers learn techniques that would enable them to become more competitive in the lucrative gourmet cheese market, which in El Salvador is dominated by imports.
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Pete Virag has over 20 years' experience in technology solutions focused on field data collection. He is currently a technology initiatives group leader for Weston Solutions, Inc., an employee-owned environment, redevelopment, and construction firm. Virag took time off from his job to lead implementation of a data collection and reporting system in Honduras for a pilot project sponsored by Water For People - a nonprofit organization that supports safe drinking water and sanitation projects in developing countries.
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For 10 years, Jan Shannon worked in public relations and fundraising for private nonprofits. She also spent many years as a writer, editor, and author. Now retired and living in New Jersey, Shannon volunteered with Global Volunteers for the first time in 2005 and was deployed to Mexico. In 2006, she spent three weeks in Ghana as an English teacher, also with Global Volunteers.
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Dr. Lindsey Inouye, a radiologist from Tucson, Arizona, took his family on a vacation to Guatemala in January 2006. Through nonprofit Cross-Cultural Solutions, Dr. Inouye donated two weeks of his services as a physician to the needy at Guatemala's National Cancer Center.
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 | Habitat for Humanity's new International Volunteer Program sent 15 volunteers to seven countries during 2005. One such volunteer, David Vimont, a construction specialist with a master's degree in architecture, went to Uganda.
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Scott Powell, a 30-year-old civil engineer whose expertise is water resources, helped design a water supply system for an Ethiopian village while serving as a volunteer for Engineering Ministries International (eMi).
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Edwin Requintina has a degree in inland fisheries and many years of experience in managing aquatic resources. He spent two weeks in the towns of Bagamoyo and Mkuranga, Tanzania, as a volunteer with the Coastal Resources Center at the University of Rhode Island. There he served as a trainer and expert advisor to farmers raising milkfish, a popular commercial species related to catfish and carp.
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Archie B. Wainright, a consulting engineer executive with over 30 years' experience in business and engineering, spent three months in Nicaragua, to share his technical expertise on several projects.
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Dr. Lisa Torraca has focused on disaster relief work since completing her residency in emergency medicine. In 2003, she became a disaster roster physician for Oregon-based Northwest Medical Teams International. Dr. Torraca spent four weeks in the Aceh Province of Indonesia , providing emergency medical care to tsunami victims.
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Chae-Un (June) Sin, a 24-year-old architect and eMi volunteer, put her drafting and design skills to work for 10 days in Cambodia to help a local community.
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After the Pakistan earthquake struck on October 8, 2005 , Maqsud Ahmad Dean took an unpaid leave of absence from his job as a physician's assistant at a private medical practice to care for the critically injured in Pakistan as a volunteer for International Medical Corps (IMC), a humanitarian non-profit organization located in Santa Monica , California.
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