Take a look
at photos of the volunteers
in action!
The success of
NJTT depends on the tireless efforts of its countless
volunteers. Tasks include picking
up donations of medicines and suitcases, sorting medicines,
maintaining records, responding to calls and e-mail
messages, packing suitcases, meeting tourists, delivering outreach materials and many others.
There is a task that suits your time and talents.
Please contact us by phone or by
e-mail to discuss how you can be part of this
project.
We have
five
volunteer opportunities available beyond sorting and
packing. All are key roles helping Not Just Tourists
Toronto transfer medical aid from Canada to Cuba and other
developing countries.
1)
Member of Travel Coordinating Team:.The
extremely responsible and key job itself can take up to
several hours on some days a day in busy season December to
March, much less in the slower April to September time. We
need one person to join the team.
Requisites: a home computer in good working order, e-mail skills,
excellent organizational skills, dedication to the goals of
NJTT, a knack for teamwork.
Benefits: interaction with excited travellers about to take
suitcases to
Cuba,
joining a talented team of volunteers from many walks of
life, contributing to sending hospital and nursing supplies
to those who really need them.
This position involves handling the completed record of
traveller, assigning a pick-up point for the suitcase in the
GTA, communicating by e-mail or phone with the pick-up point
and traveller, assigning a clinic or hospital in Cuba from a
list supplied, answering questions from traveller, sending
record of traveller to follow-up person electronically. All
people on the travel coordination team work on the same
system.
We are asking for a six-month commitment to this position.
2) Phone intake
back up person: This person takes messages and gets back to travellers with
answers to questions. In some cases the phone intake person
fills out an on-line Record of Traveller form for those
who don't have e-mail. The phone person directs calls
concerning donations or volunteering.
3) E-mail intake back up person:
The e-mail intake person checks ;our e-mail site daily,
advising new travellers as well as forwarding messages to
other members of the team. We need someone to stand in for
the current person as needed. This person needs a home
computer in good working order and good e-mail and
communication skills.
4) Registered nurse: to supervise packing sessions
for one evening, weekday, or Saturday morning a month.
