Voluntary Work Abroad
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Omprakash Foundation - Helps to connect volunteers with organisations where they are needed. They also provide grants intended to defray travel and living expenses for individuals who are interested in serving one of their partners and making a long term contribution to their network.
Oneworld - Campaigning organization that hosts the websites for quite a few volunteer organizations. Use the search engine to find what you want.
Operation Crossroads Africa - Over 40 years experience of sending volunteers to Africa.
Operation Mobilisation - Church organised voluntary work.
Operation Wallacea - Often working closely with ex nomadic sea gypsies, volunteers undertake conservation, research and community projects and surveys of marine or rainforest ecosystems. Unqualified divers may undergo a PADI Open Water dive training course.
Orangutan Foundation - This charity is uniquely involved in the protection of the Orangutan and it's Southeast Asian rainforest home. Their volunteer programme lasts for six weeks and includes hands on conservation fieldwork in the orangutan's natural habitat. Another programme, The Red Ape Challenge, involves raising a minimum of £2750 for a close up view of the Oranutan home in Tanjung Puting Park, Borneo.
PADEM - Development work in Kosovo, Mongolia and India. In French.
Peace Brigades International - PBI has branches in 15 countries and recruits volunteers to act as international observers and to accompany local human rights activists in conflict areas. They began working in Guatemala in 1983 and have run projects in El Salvador and Sri Lanka. Currently, PBI are operating in Columbia, Indonesia, West Timor, Haiti, Mexico and the Balkans.
Pro International - International workcamps arranged in Europe and Africa between March and November for volunteers aged 16 to 26.
Quest Overseas - Gap Year Company specialising in three month expeditions to South America and other destinations.
Raleigh International - Volunteers aged 17-25 can go on 10 week expeditions abroad. Raleigh also employ staff, aged over 25, with various skills to aid the expedition leader.
SENEVOLU - Voluntary work with an organisation that promotes community tourism in Senegal.
Service Civil International - Organizes workcamp placements through a network of worldwide partner organizations.
Services for Open Learning - Volunteers required to support English teachers.
Students Partnership Worldwide - Recruit over 500 people aged between 18 and 25 from the developing and developed worlds to work in India, Namibia, Nepal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe.
Sudan Voluntary Programme - Volunteers, under-graduates and graduates who are native English speakers, are needed to teach English on projects in Sudan for 12 weeks or more.
Sunseed Desert Technology - At Sunseed research, education and ecological living are uniquely combined. Take part in research into Appropriate Technology, Semi-arid land management and organic gardening, learn about sustainable living and become part of a vibrant community for as long as you want. Either pay to take a working holiday in an idyllic Spanish village or apply to become part of the staff for a small weekly allowance.
SV Agency - Can offer teaching experience in a school in Izhevsk, Russia, in exchange for room and board.
Teaching & Projects Abroad - Adventurous foreign travel with a chance to do a worthwhile job.
Tear Fund - Another Christian programme.
TimeBank - TimeBank appeals to people like you who know that their time and skills are in demand but just don't know what to do about it or where to start. Includes a VSO supported Overseas Directory.
Trees for Life - Volunteers needed to help restore the Caledonian Forest in Scotland.
UNESCO Coordinating Committee for International Voluntary Service - They don't recruit volunteers themselves but, in exchange for 2 international reply coupons, can provide a list of voluntary organizations in your country.
United Nations Exchange - Over 1000 projects in Europe and North America as well as a more specialised programme of projects in more than 20 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
UN Volunteers - Based in Bonn, Germany, UNV is active in 140 countries.
Utsikt.nu - One of Swedens most popular sites for students who wish to study or work abroad; helping to find the right courses or work programs they wish to take. Their service is free for visitors. The database is impressively large and unique since the search function is very advanced and accurate. In English and Swedish.
VFP International Workcamps - 1500 short term intercultural adventures in 70 countries.
Visions in Action - Internships in Washington DC and six month and one year volunteer positions in Africa and Mexico.
VOIS - Host a number of charity and voluntary organization sites.
VOLU - Volu, a NGO specialised in the organisation of workcamps in Ghana, accept volunteers for three weeks from all over the world and have two camp seasons: summer and winter.
Voluntary Service Belfast - Undertake community and conservation tasks in the province and gain experience that can lead to nationally recognized qualifications.
Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) - Skilled volunteers recruited to work in the developing world earning local wages.
Volunteer Abroad - A Cactus volunteer programme gives you the unique opportunity to combine a language course with volunteer work in Latin America.
Volunteer Africa - Provides details on British organizations that give young people the opportunity to spend time on a voluntary project in Africa.
Volunteer International Projects (VIP) - Based in Sri Lanka, VIP has an extensive range of internship and Volunteer programmes in Sri Lanka and the Maldive Islands, including a resort stay teaching English GAP programme, conservation, hospitality, media, fashion, business & IT.
Volunteer International - Journalism Internships for aspiring journos or journalist / photographers with Sri Lanka's leading broadsheet newspaper publications. The placements are only for those seriously interested and require a minimum of three months stay. Volunteer International suggest that these programmes are best suited for Journalism or English majors.
Volunteer Resource Centre - A helpful resource centre for anything and everything to do with volunteering in Ireland. They are not an employer or even a recruiter of volunteers for themselves but they do try to find volunteers for Irish organisations that need them.
Volunteers for Prosperity - An US government initiative to encourage international voluntary service by highly skilled Americans.
Wild at Heart Youth Adventures - Volunteer wildlife programmes available in South Africa, Botswana and Namibia.
Wilderness Volunteers - Promotes volunteer service to America's wild lands.
Wildlife Conservation Society - Lots of things of interest but a tad slow.
Workaway - A website set up to facilitate contact between travellers and host families who are prepared to offer food and accommodation in return for a few light hours work per day. Work can be anything from gardening or maintenance through to child care or shopping.
World Conservation Monitoring Centre - Provides information services on conservation and sustainable use of the world's living resources.
World Service Enquiry - Well established information and advice service about working or volunteering in the developing world.
WWOOF Australia - Organic farming organisation.
YMCA International - The YMCA's Go Global programme places skilled Americans at YMCAs around the world.
Youth International - Inter cultural exchanges, adventure, community service and homestays.
Youth With a Mission - Christian self supporting volunteers required.
3H Fund - 3H Fund is a charity that makes it possible for disabled people, children and adults, to have memorable and fulfilling holidays. Volunteers assist the disabled guests during their holiday and must pay a variable fee towards their own food and accommodation.
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