What will I do on Lattitude ICS?
The Lattitude ICS programme is based around projects which focus on youth and community development, with community based roles, where volunteers are living and working in a rural community.
You will be part of a team of UK and local volunteers working and living together, sharing cross cultural experience and gaining direct experience of international development work.
Each project has a development objective and aims to achieve various outcomes which contribute to ongoing sustainable development in the host community. This may be accomplished through the work of one team of volunteers or, more often, will be developed over the work of several groups of volunteers. The content of the programme varies depending on host requirements, but you could be contributing to projects that help tackle issues around education, women’s empowerment, health and the environment.
Teams are supported by volunteer Team Leaders. If you are over the age of 23, have previous volunteering experience, experience of working and living in a development setting and the maturity and skills to help lead a group, you may wish to consider applying for a place as a volunteer Team Leader (typically a placement of 20 weeks or more). Teams will also be supported by a locally based Lattitude ICS Coordinator within our country level support infrastructure.
What else is available on ICS?
Lattitude is just one of 9 charity partners that offer ICS. As such there are more options available to you beyond the Lattitude ICS programmes
Other programmes available via Lattitude’s ICS partners are varies. While the overall aim of ICS is to fight poverty and make a lasting difference the projects each have a different focus, for example, you could:
- Help people access better healthcare
- Increase the number of people able to protect themselves from HIV and AIDS
- Widen opportunities for people who haven’t had a formal education
- Train young people to use IT and other media
- Use sport and other activities to build life skills
- Raise awareness of climate change
- Work with farmers on sustainable development
Whether you have a strong preference, or specific dates in mind which require you to be a bit more flexible, we recommend you to apply as soon as possible.
We’ll do our best to match you to the project that best meets your needs.
