an online group.

Willinghands are young people interested in humanitarian and volunteering activities. The purpose of Willinghands is to motivate and encourage young people towards making positive contribution to their community whilst realising their potentials through volunteering.

In some countries of Africa, for instance Nigeria, young people regard volunteering as exclusive work for registered charities or some other such organisations that raises money for some "causes" and help in the community, or "something that adults or people with the extra cash" do.

Willinghands aim to dispel this to encourage and inculcate the habit of volunteering in young people; to make them understand, practice and promote volunteering ideals in their respective local environments as a means of community development and self-actualization.

The apathy that volunteering enjoys in our part of the world is largely due to little or no public awareness on the good impact it can have on the development of its young populace. The myriad of social and economic problems that young people in this part of the world faces also makes volunteering appeared unattractive, and seemingly an unproductive, unprofitable venture.

In Nigeria, the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) is the only official means young people does some kind of what could be term volunteering. Established by the Federal Government, the National Youth Service Corps is a mandatory one-year social service programme that is limited to University and Polytechnic Graduates after the completion of a four or five year degree programme.

This noble programme however leaves out other categories of young people. This is a far cry from what obtained in some other part of the world where young people are especially motivated and encouraged to get involved in volunteering activities whatever their age, gender, social or educational background.

The Young people of Willinghands aim to use this online platform to initiate varied ways to direct other young people’s attention towards volunteering in this part of the world, encourage them to get involve in volunteering activities in whatever capacity or ways that will make use of their natural talent, intelligence, and abilities, not only for their personal development, but also for the general good of their local environment and the world at large.

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The Virtualhands Team:

The Virtualhands Team are members of Willinghands Volunteers with option for online volunteering. Members should be actively involved in online volunteering in such areas as research, data entry, graphics design, webdesigns and development, online counseling etc.

I equally presently, act as Virtualhands team’s moderator.

I am at the moment listed with Taking IT Global as a Virtual Volunteer (Country Editor), and also with Grassroots (www.grassroots.org) as a Volunteer Web Designer. Grassroots is an NGO in the United States that gives free legal, administrative and other useful online services to not-for-profits based in the United States and Canada. I have helped the organization designs and developed websites for some of their associate organizations like IssuesTV (www.issuestv.com), and the Harambee Leadership Academy, Inc. (www.harambeeinc.org) both of these organizations are not-for-profits located in the United States.

If you want to know how you can be part of Willinghands, please send an email to: Willinghands@gmail.com
or
Phone: (2341) 4808843.

To get in touch with the Virtualhands team ,
email the moderator at:

Virtualhandsmoderator@gmail.com
or
Lekanbabx@yahoo.com

Phone, using these numbers:
(International) 23414808843,
(Cell) 2348023610902,
(USA / Canada) 651-314- 4109.