Pre-Departure Training for International Volunteering

Welcome to your pre-departure training course. These sessions will give you the skills and confidence to take on your volunteering placement.

This course is made up of 6 lessions which should take you about 30mins each to complete. WCIA put this together with help from our wonderful friends at FEC. FEC – Faith and Cooperation Foundation, are a non-governmental organisation for development, created in 1990 by the Catholic Church in Portugal, in a close dialogue with the Churches of Portuguese-speaking countries. Their mission is to Promote Integral Human Development with a vision of building a society where each and every person may live with dignity and justice.

WCIA is a charity launched in 1973, based in the Temple of Peace and Health in Cardiff, covering the whole of Wales.
The Welsh Centre for International Affairs’ vision is that everyone in Wales contributes to creating a fairer and more peaceful world. To achieve this, our mission is to inspire learning and action on global issues. We see volunteering and international volunteering as a really important part of this mission, and something that this course will help you along that journey!

To get you in the mood for your volunteering placement, check out these videos from young people who went on a short term ‘workcamp’ placement in Wales in 2024.