Here's a way to do something meaningful while expanding your network of friends and associates — and you don't have to leave your recliner.
Remote volunteering lets anyone, no matter their circumstances, do good for the world.
According to teambuilding.com, you can find remote volunteer opportunities in your community or around the world and tackle them from your own home. You can match your skills to a need, get training at home, and dedicate four or more hours to the project each week.
The key is matching your skills to the right project. An empathetic person? Try the Crisis Text Line, which provides support to individuals in crisis. Volunteers learn communication and intervention skills, and help people who need compassion.
For those who speak more than one language, volunteer translators are in high demand. With Translators Without Borders, volunteers spend time translating medical documents and crisis response texts. The mobile app Tarjimly matches immigrants and refugees with multi-lingual humanitarians.
Love to read? Project Gutenberg is putting classic books on the Internet and needs proofreaders.
Adopt a Nursing Home matches volunteers with elder care residents who would love to receive letters and phone calls.
So if you have a lot to give, but that hitch in your wagon makes it difficult to get out, try online volunteering. See a list of 34 organizations at: teambuilding.com/blog/online-volunteering