Corporate Volunteering
We provide tailor made packages for corporate participants in 19 countries throughout Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. Our volunteer programmes involve living, working and making a difference in a local disadvantaged community.
Corporate Volunteering: An Excellent Investment
Corporate volunteering is a highly effective way to showcase CSR in action and improve the visibility of your company. While CSR can be a meaningful investment for your company brand, corporate volunteering is also an investment in your employee base. Getting involved in a corporate volunteering programme with EIL is a unique opportunity for your company to enhance its reputation and profile, while fostering your employees’ personal and professional development.
Corporate Volunteering example: Trisha Healy from SouthWestern
Trisha Healy from SouthWestern is volunteering in Ecuador in a micro-credit bank supporting small business development initiatives in 
indigeanous communities.
Click here to read the Irish Examiner article
Click here to read her blogs.
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About us
Whether you want to encourage your employees to volunteer individually, send a group of employees on a team building programme or support a specific project in a developing country, EIL will bring structure, experience, dedicated professional guidance and a commitment to excellence to your corporate volunteering or CSR programme. For a volunteering experience that is worthwhile for your employees and benefits your company, with secure back-up around the world, you should choose EIL.
EIL Ireland at a glance
- Not-for-profit organisation established in Ireland for over 50 years
- More than 2,000 people travelling each year
- Supported by Irish Aid and Trocaire
- Member of the National Youth Council of Ireland
- Signatory of the Comhlamh Code of Good Practice for Volunteer Sending Organisation
- No political or religious affiliation
- Member of the EIL International Federation
EIL International Federation
- 80 years experience in intercultural exchanges
- Offices in 23 countries
- More than 300 staff worldwide
- More than 30000 participants each year
- UN Peace Messenger Organisation
- Consultative status at the Council of Europe
What we offer
- Tailored volunteer programmes for employees travelling in groups or individually;
- Flexible destinations, duration and departure dates;
- Guidance to match employees’ skills with projects’ needs;
- Fundraising support;
- Assistance for flights, visas and vaccinations;
- Pre-departure support and training, including workshop and logistical support;
- Placement in grassroots community projects;
- In-country support from local, experienced and highly skilled professional staff;
- Team-building and intercultural learning activities for groups;
- Debrief and evaluation on return;
- Possibility of long-term partnerships with local projects overseas;
- Optional additional group educational and team building workshops in Ireland.
Get involved
How your company can get involved
- Encourage your employees to volunteer by offering sponsorship, matching grants, paid leave, etc.
- Invite EIL to run a Volunteer Recruitment Drive in your company.
- Send groups of employees on team-building volunteer programmes.
- Enter into partnership with one of our local projects – Provide sustainable support by sending volunteers or donations.
- Raise awareness about global issues in your company through events such as presentations, workshops, and campaigns facilitated by EIL.
Benefits
Benefits of corporate volunteering
- Enhancing your company’s reputation, brand and profile.
- Offering an exciting socially responsible incentive to employees.
- Fostering employees’ personal and professional development.
Skill sharing opportunity
Volunteering Abroad enables employees the opportunity to contribute their unique skills and experiences to a local project overseas. It also allows them to acquire new skills and to develop existing capabilities such as leadership, adaptability, initiative, team-work, communication skills, cultural competency, and language skills.
Testimonials
“I feel extremely privileged to have traveled with EIL and hopefully made a difference in the lives of the children that I encountered during my stay in Cape Town. I feel it is one of the best things I will ever do in my life.”
Chantelle Wallace, volunteer in South Africa
“I know that I will look back on the entire experience with a great sense of achievement and fulfilment. Like a smile, my stay here will have enriched the giver and the receiver alike.”
Michael Dempsey from Co Wicklow, volunteer in Guatemala
Projects available
We place volunteers in a wide range of community projects. Most projects do not require any specific qualification or experience. However, we also have some projects where specific skills are needed such as in IT, marketing, accounting, health, etc.
Construction and Renovation
Build a school in Guatemala, renovate a crèche in a South African township.
Education and Teaching
Teach English to Burmese refugees in Thailand.
IT Support
Provide support to a community IT Learning Centre in Guatemala.
Orphanage Work
Help out in an orphanage run by monks in Vietnam.
Childcare
Volunteer with Roma Children in Albania.
Small Business Development
Volunteer with a micro-credit bank in Ghana.
Sports Development
Coach soccer in a Cape Town township.
Conservation
Volunteer in a tree planting project in Morocco.
Healthcare
Support a community clinic working with Indigenous people in Guatemala.
Other projects available:
Human Rights
Women empowerment
Youth empowerment
Arts and Crafts
Media
Contact us for sample projects and itineraries.
Where we work
Mexico:
Teaching, Welfare & Environment Programs
Teaching, Environment & Welfare Programs
Health, Teaching, Welfare & Environment Programs
Chile:
Health, Teaching, Welfare & Environment Programs
Teaching, Welfare, Sports, Health & Human Rights Programs
Teaching, Welfare, Health & Environment Programs
Teaching, Welfare, Health, Human Rights & Environment Programs
Teaching, Health, Environment, Building & Community Development Programs
Teaching, Welfare & Environment Programs
Teaching, Welfare, Community Development, Environment & Health Programs
Teaching, Welfare, Conservation, Media & Health Programs
Teaching, Welfare & Health Programs
Teaching, Welfare, Health & Environment Programs
Thailand:
Teaching, Welfare, Health & Women Empowerment Programs
Environment & Welfare Programs
Teaching, Welfare, Health & Human Rights Programs
Teaching Welfare & Sport Programs
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