I would like to note that although I cannot support others with financial contributions, I could support people with attention.

In this vein, I feel it would be useful if Eric could write a short article about "the significance of the qualifications as a social worker in the context of information about volunteering [and/or volunteer work] in Africa". This might be useful for him to focus on anyways, and I could then publish the article with links to Eric's homepage on a "volunteering information" website.

I do not know if that would immediately help Eric (within the next week or two), but I could imagine that it would help him to make more new contacts in in maybe a month or two (or three)....