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Volunteer Groups in Melbourne

Volunteers are always needed and it is a quick way to make friends.  See also community groups.

• Amnesty International
• Big Brothers Big Sisters - mentoring program
• Collingwood Children's Farm - Country Life for City Folk. Open every day of the year from 9am - 5pm
• depressioNet - needs volunteers for the online care team, administrative and technical positions, and fundraising.
• Health Australia & Tanzania (HAT) was founded in March 2005 to raise funds for development projects that improve the health of Tanzanians. Proceeds from Trivia for Tanzania will finance medical equipment for the Londoni village in the Singida region of Tanzania. All projects are developed in consultation with local villagers to meet their priorities and the needs of their communities.
• Kids Under Kanvas - Wesley Mission Melbourne is looking for volunteers.
• The Light of Lanka Foundation was established in January 2005 as a result of mother of three, Needra Doyles inspiring trip to Sri Lanka just three days after the tsunami to work as a volunteer. After sharing her experiences via emails to friends at home, a group were motivated to form a committee to assist some of the hundreds of orphaned children. 
• Melbourne Water Frog Census a community-based frog monitoring program within greater Melbourne.
• The Mental Illness Fellowship - To serve, to help, to lend a hand, to get down and dirty - the Mental Illness Fellowship volunteers do all this and more to ensure that their organisation prospers and grows. They visit, they type, they teach, they inform, they answer our Helpline - our volunteers have always been giving of their time, free of their expertise and willing to lend a hand.
• Volunteering Victoria - General information about volunteering in Victoria
• Youth Referral and Independent Person Program (YRIPP)
• See also Environmental groups 
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Australia-Wide Volunteering Groups

• Australian Volunteers International - Volunteering placements in Asia, the Pacific, Africa and the Middle East.
• Australian Volunteer Search - Volunteering opportunities by state and territory
• Conservation Volunteers - Volunteer for conservation projects throughout Australia
• Go Volunteer - Search for volunteering opportunities
• *Indigenous Community Volunteers - A not-for-profit company that offers support to Indigenous communities.
• Oxfam Australia - Volunteer in Oxfam offices or become a remote volunteer
• Refugee Council of Australia
• The Salvation Army
• Seek Volunteer - Find volunteering opportunities on Seek
• UNIFEM - promotes women's human rights, political participation and economic security
• VEEP Nepal - Provides volunteering opportunity in Nepal as well as travelling experience. 1) Teaching English 2) Teaching Computer 3) Teaching Environment Science 4) Orphanage Aid Programme   
• Volunteering Australia - Volunteering opportunities nation-wide
• *Volunteer Green - Developed by the Australian Conservation Foundation.
• WWF Australia - Wildlife Project Volunteers

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