Volunteer Opportunities

AFS International: AFS provides intercultural learning and volunteer opportunities for students, young adults, teachers and families through international exchange. www.afs.org

American Jewish World Service: AJWS is an international development organization that helps hundreds of thousands of people in Africa, Asia, and the Americas move beyond poverty, illiteracy, disaster, and war. www.ajws.org

Amigos de las Americas: Trains and provides opportunities for high school and college students to participate in service projects in Latin America. www.amigoslink.org

Bridges to Understanding: Bridges to Understanding provides the tools and training that enables kids around the world to tell stories from their own lives and cultures. These stories are shared through the BRIDGES website where students can engage each other, ask questions about each others’ lives and collaborate to create multimedia stories exploring their cultures. Middle and high school students in the developed world connect with their contemporaries in indigenous communities established in Peru, Kenya, India, Nepal and Guatemala. www.bridgesweb.org

Cross-Cultural Solutions: As a Cross-Cultural Solutions volunteer, you’ll work side-by-side with local people to help achieve important community objectives. The volunteer work is with carefully selected Partner Programs, all of which are dynamic and inspiring community-led initiatives. These include orphanages and childcare centers, schools, health clinics and hospitals, homes for the elderly, centers for people with disabilities, and other community organizations. www.crossculturalsolutions.org

Foundation for Sustainable Development: FSD supports the efforts of grassroots development organizations in Latin America, East Africa, and Asia that are working to better their communities, environments, and the economic opportunities around them. Through our programs, we aim to raise international awareness of the economic challenges in developing countries and support cross-cultural communities in finding more effective solutions to development issues. www.fsdinternational.org

Global Crossroad: Global Crossroad offers many exciting volunteer abroad experiences to international volunteers in 20 marvelous countries across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, with more countries becoming available soon. www.globalcrossroad.com

RCDP: RCDP is a non-profit volunteer organization registered with the Social Welfare Council HMG of Nepal. Since its inception in 1999, RCDP has conducted some of the most innovative and successful volunteer programs in the country. Nearly 300 volunteers annually join the program from the United States, the UK, Canada, Australia, and other countries, making it the largest volunteer operation in Nepal. Realizing the need for affordable volunteer opportunities for international students, RCDP has begun new volunteer programs in the neighboring countries of India, Tibet, and Sri Lanka. Presently, we offer programs of 1-12 weeks in four South Asian countries: Nepal, India, Tibet, and Sri Lanka. Volunteer opportunities run throughout the year and are available in such areas as English teaching, orphanage assistance, conservation work, health care, and others designed to meet the interest of individual volunteers. www.rcdpnepal.com

Iko Poran: Located in Brazil, Iko Poran places volunteers who partake in projects developed and operated by a local partner organization and their respective community councils. Volunteers have a unique experience of by actively participating in developing communities for a fairer world while creating a rich personal opportunity for cultural exchange. www.ikoporan.org

International Partnership for Service Learning: Offered in 14 countries, IPSL programs unite academic study for credit and volunteer service, giving students a fully integrated study abroad experience. The service enlivens the formal learning, and the learning informs the service. Both students and the host communities benefit from the substantial service each student gives. By studying at a local university and serving 15-20 hours per week in a school, orphanage, health clinic or other agency addressing human needs, students find their knowledge of the host culture--and of themselves--take on greater depth and meaning. www.ipsl.org

The International Volunteer Program: IVP is a non-profit organization that promotes volunteerism in Europe, the United States and Latin America. IVP host organizations benefit from the dedicated work of our volunteers by receiving much needed administrative, technical, and developmental support. Volunteers offer not only a strong commitment to service but also bring their unique personal backgrounds and invaluable professional skills to their assignments. IVP currently offers volunteer positions in France, Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Costa Rica. www.ivpsf.org

Operation Crossroads Africa: America’s premier cross-cultural exchange program, Operation Crossroads Africa was established in 1957 by Dr. James Robinson, who foresaw a “clear, honest, hard-hitting program” in which young North Americans would work at the grassroots level with young Africans. He envisioned young people “building bridges of friendship to Africa.” The organization’s motto is “make a difference for others, see the difference in yourself.” www.operationcrossroadsafrica.org

Peacework: Peacework promotes sustainable solutions to world poverty and disparity through global partnerships in development, education, health, and service.  Peacework offers volunteer, service learning, medical and environmental projects throughout the world in countries such as Belize, China, Chez Republic, Ghana, Honduras, India, Russia, Thailand, and the United States.  www.peacework.org

Visions in Action: Visions in Action is an international nonprofit organization committed to achieving social and economic justice in the developing world through the participation of communities of self-reliant, grassroots volunteers. www.visionsinaction.org

Global Eco Spiritual Tours: Located in the Himalayan Mountains, this is a unique travel adventure combining eco-tourism and spiritual awareness.  The objective is to involve members in the environmental landscape and religious culture of the Ladakh region of northern India.  Participants are involved in low impact, sustainable development projects.  www.globalecospiritualtours.org

Globe Aware: Globe Aware, a nonprofit organization, currently offers volunteer vacations in Peru, Costa Rica, Thailand, Cuba, Nepal, Brazil, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. These short-term (1 to 2 weeks) adventures in service focus on cultural-awareness and sustainability, and are often compared to a "mini peace corps".  www.globeaware.org

Volunteers for Peace:  VFP services include providing consultation and a placement service for workcamp hosts and volunteers, linking people with programs.  It aims to foster international education, voluntary service and friendship throughout the world.  www.vfp.org

World Teach:  WorldTeach provides opportunities for volunteers to teach in developing countries, making a meaningful contribution to schools and communities that are in great need of teachers.  Most volunteers teach English, and students range in age depending on the placement.  In some countries, volunteers may also teach math, science, computer skills, or HIV/AIDS awareness.  www.worldteach.org