Hello everyone,
I'd like to ask if any expat here is working on humanitarian causes/helping people in need in São Paulo, or if anyone knows which organizations focusing on these causes offer space for international staff or partners.
Many thanks!
Hi everyone. I am an environmental scientist and I have always been interested in helping people in need. I mostly try to find solutions to social-ecological issues, but I mostly do so from the comfort of my desk as I work with research (so there's fieldwork, but it's occasional). However, I have been feeling the urge to get involved with hands-on projects. The only problem is that I am a highly sensitive person and face compassion fatigue (for example, in SA I could barely work after talking to a 90-year-old man who hadn't eaten anything in two weeks). Has any of you encountered similar issues? How do you deal with this? I can't be "distant"...my nervous system does not allow for that.