Clients
Global Economic Outreach is a network of volunteers organized to assist aid workers operating in developing countries - particularly those involved in Christian Community Development. GEO volunteers are experienced in a wide variety of skills, occupations, and hobbies useful for helping communities in need. Aid workers should contact GEO when they need:

(1) Information.
GEO maintains and continues to build a body of useful links and documents helpful to practicioners of community development. Much of this information is accessible online by visiting "The Library" section of this site.

(2) Expertise.
GEO can recommend skilled volunteers to "consult" by telephone or email on most any technology, process, or topic. GEO has recruited volunteers with expertise in solar power and locating water to radio broadcasting and preventing soil erosion; from chicken farming and construction to doll making and microlending; and from education and medicine to drip irrigation and beekeeping.

(3) Support services.
GEO also participates in larger projects where support services are needed. Services provided include procurement and logistics.

As a volunteer organization, Global Economic Outreach does not charge for our services, nor can we respond to appeals for financial support.

Volunteers
Workers operating in developing countries are looking for ways to connect with their host cultures and to offer them skills and resources to improve their lives. Simple things like wells and waste management can dramatically improve health. Electricity generated from the sun or wind charges batteries for powering radios and telephones. Drip irrigaton and methods for controlling erosion improve the availability of food, improving nutrition. Simple business skills and small amounts of money can free the poor from abuse, prostitution, and slavery.

But while aid workers understand the culture and see opportunities to help, they may lack the technical expertise to make a venture fully successful and sustainable. This is where you - as a GEO volunteer - come in.

GEO volunteers are skilled in a wide range of areas. Some are highly technical: radio, power generation, computers, telecommunications. Others are professional and vocational: agriculture, cabinet making, auto repair, water, medicine, education, law. And still others offer skills we may consider hobbies but that can be income-producing activities in other regions: needlework, ceramics, doll making, carving, weaving, and many others.

If you are skilled in an area, are willing to share the talent you have been given, and can make yourself available for a few minutes at a time to answer questions by email or telephone, please register with us.

Share what you know. It can make a world of difference.