Volunteer, Donate, Apply Your Skills, and MORE -
If you would like to help ACLENet in our mission to save lives, decrease injuries and crippling infrastructure damage from lightning, we'd love to hear from you. There are a number of ways you can get involved depending on your level of interest, your time, location and expertise.
Check out our needs below and their connecting pages and then send us a note telling us about yourself and how you would like to help. I promise we'll get back to you to discuss how we can work together to save lives!
Too busy to volunteer right now or want a quick and easy way to help? - DONATE!
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If you believe in what ACLENet is doing, have lots of friends but only a little time, tell your friends about us and urge them to support ACLENet's goals using Twitter, FaceBook or other social media. Tweet our newsletter or send it through your Facebook, Instagram or other social media platforms.
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Provide funds to protection of schools, do public education, develop National Centres and ACLENet's other activities. ACLENet is designated as a 501(c)3 non profit by the US government for US donors and you will receive a 'tax letter' in the receipt you receive after your donation. We will stretch your contribution to do the most good.
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We have a whole list of things you can help with if you have expertise in the areas listed on this link.
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Help us design a Twitter or FaceBook campaign. You have great ideas - share them! Offer feedback on what we do. We are always looking for better ways to connect, raise funds, and save lives.
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ACLENet is working at many levels to educate the public, teachers, government officials, and others. We also need materials translated into various languages to reach more people.
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Your enthusiasm in making it through the website to this paragraph already proves your persistence and interest - so shoot us an e-mail and we'll see how we can incorporate you into ACLENet's work to save lives.
If you speak languages other than English, we can use your help monitoring daily Google searches for lightning injuries in African countries where your language is spoken.
If you are a fundraiser, we can use your expertise.
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Because ACLENet is an international organization, we need access to grants that fund activities in the countries where we are located, do lightning safety public education, will support development of National Centres, carry forward the research we do, provide lightning protection for schools and the other activities we do. Send us an e-mail
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We need people who are as passionate about our mission as we are. If you are interested in forming an ACLENet National Centre in your country, please contact us.
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An International Affiliate is someone who wants to help with our mission, raise funds, and other activities in their countries. Please check out the 'job description' for an International Affiliate and then send us an e-mail if you are interested.
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Community Consultant – Help National Centre leaders with their plans based on their request for assistance at any point in the process.
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If you are in Africa and experience or know of a lightning incident, please report it so that we can investigate it when time, funds, and travel conditions allow. Sometimes these incidents, such as this one where 16 were killed and 140 injured at a church in Rwanda, occur in remote or difficult to reach areas. Any information, pictures, etc.you send will be helpful and we can guide you in gathering data. This information can often be used to determine the mechanisms of injury or how damage occurred and help us study how to prevent similar incidents.
