Volunteer Opportunities

• ACDI/VOCA
  A private, nonprofit international development organization providing high-quality technical expertise at the request of farmers, agribusinesses, cooperatives, and private and government agencies abroad.

• Volunteer Africa
  A site with details on on volunteering opportunities in Africa, information on useful books and guides.

• Council Exchanges
  International Volunteer Projects offers short term international volunteer projects in more than 30 countries. Projects include construction/renovation, archeology, social services and environmental work.

• Cross Cultural Solutions 
  Volunteer in a variety of community development projects for 3 weeks or more.

• Earthwatch
  Earthwatch is a national volunteer organization, which organizes volunteer work for people of all nationalities in Africa and Central and South America.  Volunteers are recruited to join research expeditions to help recognized university and museum faculty staff undertake their field work. Projects undertaken in Africa generally are involved with  conservation and archaeology.

• Global Citizens Network:
  GCN provides short-term cross-cultural volunteer expeditions to villages throughout the world. Each volunteer team has the opportunity to experience life in another culture by living with local people, eating traditional foods, and working with local people who are involved in grassroots efforts to meet their community needs.

• Global Routes
  Teaching internships from 10-12 weeks in remote rural villages -  They offer community-service/cross-cultural exchange programs for North American high-school and college students throughout the world. Students immerse themselves in the life of a small, rural community as they live with a local family and teach in the village school, build a community meeting house or clinic or participate in other service projects.

• Global Service Corps  
  Service learning, cultural immersion in developing countries. Live with a village family while assisting grassroots organizations on community service and development projects

• Global Volunteers
  Each year Global Volunteers coordinates more than 150 teams of short-term volunteers who contribute to human and economic development projects across the globe.

• HUMANA 
  Based in Denmark, Humana is an international Non-Governmental Organization currently running over 150 projects in Africa, Asia and Central America involving more than 500,000 people. So far, more than 4000 Development Instructors (our word for volunteers) have participated in starting up and running these projects.  
  

• Nursing Abroad
  Includes a Directory of organizations which have opportunities for nurses overseas. These are mainly voluntary organizations and include those working in Africa. They are also developing the vacancies section to include information on nursing jobs overseas.

• Operation Crossroads Africa
  The Crossraods summer consists of three orientation days in New York City, six work weeks on a rural project as part of a work camp of 8-10 volunteers, and one travel week in the host country. The types of projects are agriculture, education, construction, community health and women's development.

• Peace Corps
  Peace Corps volunteers travel overseas and make real differences in the lives of real people. Peace Corps has many international volunteer positions to fill, and an urgent need for volunteers with a background in business, education, the environment, agriculture, and French language.

• Project Hope - The People to People Health Foundation
  A private voluntary international agency, Project HOPE offers multi-disciplinary assistance in health care education at home and abroad. Through partnership established through HOPE, health personnel in other countries are taught techniques in specialty areas such as medicine, nursing, dentistry, allied health fields, etc. 

• SCI International Voluntary Service  
  SCI-IVS is the US branch of Service Civil International, an international movement that works for peace and justice through voluntary service. SCI's main activity is coordinating both short- and long-term international service projectsCoordinate many work camps with minimal or no cost to participants.

• Teaching and Projects Abroad
  Great volunteering experiences - worthwhile, active and enjoyable - with first-class experience back-up all over the world. Opportunities in South Africa

• United Children’s Fund, Inc.
  UCF provides opportunities to serve in Uganda East Africa, providing financial, humanitarian, and volunteer services to the rural villages of Uganda.

• United Nations Volunteer Programme
  Since 1970, the United Nations has been operating a volunteer scheme which recruits personnel to work on a large number of UN related development projects in the Third World.

• Volunteers in Technical Assistance (VITA Inc.)
  1815 North Lynn Street, Suite 200, Arlington, Virginia 22209, USA. This is an association of some 600 educators, scientists, engineers and businessmen who have volunteered their time and expertise to aid the problems of small businesses and rural development projects in developing countries. 

• Volunteer Africa
  A site with details on on volunteering opportunities in Africa, information on useful books and guides.

• Volunteer in Africa

• Visions in Action 
  An international nonprofit organization offering 6 and 12 month volunteer positions in five African countries and Mexico. Positions are available with nonprofit development organizations, research institutes, health clinics, community groups, and news organizations. There are also internship opportunities available on a continuous basis in Visions in Action's US Office in Washington, DC.

• Volunteers for Peace  
  Services include providing consultation and a placement service for workcamp hosts and volunteers, linking people with programs. Programs seek to foster international education, voluntary service and friendship. In the last 17 years they have have placed over 10,000 volunteers in international workcamps world-wide. 

• WorldTeach 
  A nonprofit, non governmental organization which provides opportunities for individuals to make a meaningful contribution to international education by living and working as  volunteer teacher in developing countries.

• Worldwide Volunteers and Services  
  A personalized placement service that locates challenging volunteer positions to meet individuals special interests and skills. Opportunities are global, of long or short duration. Placements usually provide free room and board.