Volunteer Opportunity - Paid Trip to Russia

[Elena Gapova]

Probably; I just would love to explain about volunteers - why there is not
enough local help. The reason, besides the one that Alina Israeli pointed
earlier (to volunteer, you have to have an income), is that in NIS there is
no place to which people can go with (or through) volunteer work. In the US,
at least part of volunteers do it to gain experience which they may not have
otherwise, or get connections, or a good entry in their resumes (sometimes,
volunteer work may even lead to employment). In other words, volunteer work
is a regular part of how social institutions are made.  In NIS, volunteer
work and formal structures hardly ever overlap, and a line in a resume that
one volunteered in, say, vosstanovlenie Solovetskogo monastyrya, has only
"moral value".

e.g.

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Perhaps they're just that desperate for help.

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