- AidCamps
International
- UK-based nonprofit organisation offering volunteers
the opportunity to participate in third world
development aid projects run by local non-governmental
groups.
- Ajed
- gives young people opportunities to experience
life in Senegal while participating in volunteer
projects and staying with guest families.
- Amigos
de las Americas - community service
and recreation which provide volunteers the
unique opportunity to participate first hand
in the culture of the region they are traveling.
- Association
for Support of Individual Charity (ASIC)
- provides services to individuals who are engaged
in charity at a personal level, particularly
in Guatemala.
- Athens
2004 Volunteers - official site of the International
Volunteers Association, which helps raise volunteers
for the 2004 Olympics.
- Volunteer
Force - volunteers helping street
children and abandoned mothers in Latin America,
with lots of creative projects.
- Cross-Cultural
Solutions - volunteer abroad in India, Africa,
Latin America. Work overseas in international
humanitarian service programs.
- e-Volunteerism
- web-based international journal focusing on
volunteer management concerns includes feature
articles, roundtables, and training designs.
- Evaluation
of the United Nations Volunteer Program in Kosovo
- describes job satisfaction levels, discrimination,
and lack of support reported by UNVs.
- Friends
of Lesotho - providing development grants,
project assistance, student scholarships, and
more.
- Geekcorps
- matches volunteers from the high-tech world
to companies in the developing world for short
overseas interships.
- Global
Citizens for Change - promotes overseas
volunteering as an educational experience.
- Global
Citizens Network - sends small teams of
volunteers to rural communities worldwide to
work on projects and immerse themselves in local
culture.
- Global
Health Corps - training university students
in conducting culturally appropriate public
health programs.
- Global
Service Corps - nonprofit organization sending
out volunteers to Thailand and Tanzania for
health and education projects.
- Global
Volunteer Network - directory of international
volunteer programs and opportunities.
- Global
Volunteers - private nonprofit, nonsectarian
organization sends volunteers to work on human
and economic development projects.
- Go
M.A.D. - connects volunteers with projects
worldwide.
- Greater
Cleveland-Volgograd Oblast Alliance - nonprofit
organization facilitating humanitarian assistance
to non-governmental organizations and citizens
living in the Volgograd region of Russia.
- Greenways
- brings international volunteers together to
live and work with local residents in the areas
of culture, environment, and education.
- HandsFor.org
- non-sectarian, nonprofit organization aiding
communities in developing countries.
- Healing
Arts Missions - volunteer efforts supporting
a school and medical center in Dumay, Haiti.
- Institute
for International Cooperation & Development
(IICD) - trains and sends voluteers to work
in community development projects in Africa
and Latin America.
- Intercambio
Cultural Maya - cultural exchange and development
program that involves the Maya of the Yucatan
Peninsula.
- International
Christian Youth Exchange (ICYE) - nonprofit
youth exchange organization promoting youth
mobility, intercultural learning, and international
voluntary service.
- International
Conference Volunteers - assists organizers
of nonprofit conferences in Geneva; solicits,
trains and coordinates volunteers for international
conferences, and advises conference organizers.
- International
Site for Voluntary Work - aggregates volunteer
organizations. Includes message board for volunteer
feedback.
- International
Volunteer Programs Association - online
directory for international volunteer and internship
opportunities.
- Jesuit
Volunteers Philippines
- Korea
Overseas Volunteers in Bangladesh - provides
news and information about the program.
- Lindesrvold
- training school for international volunteers,
also known as the Travelling Folk High School.
- Loving
Hand for Disabled and Aged Persons (LOHADA)
- non-religious, non-political, and non-governmental
organization aiding the disabled , their children,
and elderly persons in Arusha, Tanzania.
- Makindu
Children's Center - offering volunteer opportunities
in developing self-sustaining program in this
Kenyan village that will provide basic needs,
education. and training for the children there.
- Maranatha
Volunteers International - constructs churches,
schools, orphanages, clinics, housing and other
structures in areas of great need around the
world.
- Mondo
Challenge - sends volunteers to help with
development programmes in many countries.
- Nepal
NGO - provides volunteer work in schools
in Southern Nepal.
- Outreach
International UK - offers gap year volunteer
projects in Mexico to young adults.
- Partners
of the Americas (2)
- Peace
and Hope Trust, Inc. - committed to promoting
education and values in the third world, especially
Nicaragua and Ukraine, through the relief of
poverty, sickness, and starvation.
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- Project
Open Hearts - works with foreign medical
staff to provide surgical training, assistance
with diagnostic procedures, and support for
orphaned children and needy families.
- Project
Trust
- Quota
International
- Retired
& Senior Volunteer Program International (RSVPI)
- providing volunteer opportunities and community
service in locations around the world.
- Room
To Read - builds schools and libraries and
provides scholarships to underprivileged children
in Nepal and Vietnam.
- Schools
for Chiapas - sponsoring trips and solicting
funds to build schools for the Maya peoples
of Chiapas.
- SMILEchildren
- nonprofit organization helping enhance the
education and welfare of primary and secondary
school-children in Myanmar.
- Take
to the Hills - delivers clothing and medical
supplies to rural areas, concentrating on villages
in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Northwest Mexico.
- Teachers
for Tomorrow - provides instruction by volunteer
teachers in Romania and India.
- Technology
Helping Advance Women Entrepreneurs (THAWE)
- international development organization sending
volunteers to developing countries to promote
the sustainable growth of women-owned businesses.
- United
Nations Centre for Human Settlements (UNCHS/Habitat
- United
Nations Information Technology Service (UNITeS)
- aims at creating a worldwide programme for
information technology volunteers.
- Visions
In Action - international nonprofit organization
offering 6 and 12 month volunteer positions
in five African countries and Mexico.
- Visions
Service Adventures - co-educational, experiential
learning summer program for teenagers performing
community service in North America, South America,
and the Caribbean.
- Voluntary
Service Overseas
- Voluntary
Work Information Service (VWIS) and Working
Abroad - international networking service
for volunteers, travellers, and professionals
in the humanitarian and environmental sectors.
- Volunteers
for Peace International Workcamps - overseas
work projects for adults and teenagers.
- Volunteers
in Asia - provides volunteer and service-learning
opportunities in Asia, and leads study-tours
in the U.S. and Asia.
- Volunteer
uds Life - Account of life as a volunteer
in Latin America, plus several volunteering
opportuities.
- Volunteer
Cajamarca - Opportunities to help poor children
and mothers in the Andees of Peru (in the city
where Pizaro conquered the Incas and took their
treasures)- Cajamarca is the fourth tourits
destination of Peru..
- We
Share Foundation - raising funds and making
grants to support humanitarian, educational,
and research causes worldwide.
- World
Jewish - global partnership offering volunteer
opportunities for young Jewish adults around
the world.
- WorldTeach
- international social service program which
places volunteers as teachers in developing
countries that request educational assistance.
- Worldwide
Volunteering - database of global volunteering
opportunities and organizations.
- Y.M.E.
Foundation, The - a nonprofit, humanitarian
organization with projects in developing countries.
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