The International Cooperation and Development Fund (ICDF), a government-funded foreign aid agency, on Thursday said that it is accepting applications for its annual volunteer program that provides humanitarian and other assistance to the nation’s diplomatic allies and less-developed countries.
The agency, funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said in a news release that it is to recruit 44 volunteers to work in areas such as information technology, public health, veterinary science, nutritional science, nursing, health education, mental health and epidemiological statistics.
Other areas include business, translation and interpretation, English education, mathematics education, culinary education, animal husbandry promotion and waste management, the agency said.
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Taiwanese nationals aged 20 or older are eligible to apply. Those selected would be deployed to one of 11 countries in the Asia-Pacific, the Caribbean, Africa, and Central and South America for six months to a year, it added.
The ICDF is also accepting applications for a six-month volunteer program, which aims to recruit 10 volunteers. They would work with the ICDF, its partner organizations or in Eswatini on a project to strengthen the prevention of metabolic chronic diseases.
They could also join projects in Kenya, Uganda and Kyrgyzstan.
In those countries, they would work with Taiwanese non-governmental organization Step30 International Ministries and the Taiwan Fund for Children and Families, it added.
The deadline for all applications is Feb. 10.
According to TaiwanICDF, about 900 volunteers have been deployed to 48 countries since the Overseas Volunteers Program was launched in 1996.
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