| Association of International Development and Exchange (AIDE) |
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| Amigos de las Americas |
Volunteer
to spend your summer providing public health services to our neighbors
in Latin America |
| British Trust for Conservation Volunteers |
BTVC is committed to providing practical conservation opportunities for
people from all sections of the community in towns, cities, and the countryside. |
| Catholic Network of Volunteer Service |
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| Choice Humanitarian |
To save children's
lives and alleviate abject poverty in Third World villages through public
awareness and personal involvement in sustainable self-help initiatives. |
| Connections |
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| Coral Cay Conservation Expeditions |
Providing resources to help sustain livelihoods and alleviate poverty
through the protection, restoration and management of coral reefs and
tropical forests. |
| Cross-Cultural Solutions |
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| Frontiers Foundation Inc |
Service, experiential education, research. The purpose of the society
is to promote and advance field research and implement practical projects
contributing to the conservation of natural resources. Ten-week conservation
research expeditions in Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique, and Vietnam. |
| Global Citizens Network |
Sends small teams of cross-cultural volunteers on expeditions to rural
communities around the world to immerse themselves in the daily life of
the local culture and work on community projects for several weeks. |
| Global Volunteers |
group
work camps. A non-profit corporation with the goal of developing peace
through mutual international understanding. 1-2 week volunteer work experiences
in Southeast Asia, Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, and the
U.S. |
| Heifer Project International |
Helping
hungry families feed themselves and care for the Earth. |
| Intercambio Cultural
Maya |
Ecumenical group working with community development projects
in the Yucatan Peninsula region of Mexico. Construction, medical/dental
projects, and health education. |
| The Lisle Fellowship |
Offers
short-term experiences around the world that focus on cooperative, democratic
leadership and multicultural, multiracial participation. |
| Mar de Jade |
Volunteering is a
key part of life at Mar de Jade. Our two primary projects are the Chacala
Library, located on the elementary school grounds in the village, and
Techos de Mexico which holds work-camps once or twice a year. |
| Maryknoll Mission Family |
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Nicaragua
Center for Community Action |
Volunteer work brigade in Nicaragua.
Live and work on a sustainable agricultural program with Nicaraguan Campesinos. |
| Operation
Crossroads Africa |
Volunteer workcamps. Operation Crossroads promotes
cross-cultural sharing and understanding through six-week volunteer workcamp
programs in Africa and Brazil. All projects include a component of physical
work and most are located in rural areas. |
| Outreach
International |
Volunteer service trips primarily in Alabama and Chili.
Volunteers work with OI's Adobe Block Construction program. |
| Peaceworks |
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| School for International Training |
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| Service
Station |
Creates, promotes, and manages short-term (1 day to 2 weeks)
volunteers service opportunities that are fairly inexpensive. Most sites
open all year. |
| Volunteers for Peace |
Aims to promote citizen diplomacy by maximizing personal contact with
local people through international volunteer workcamps and short-term
adventures. Work available in over 70 countries (95% of all opportunities
take place June - September). |
| Africare |
Africare helps Africa. Over the course of its 28 years, Africare has become
a leader among private, charitable U.S. organizations assisting Africa
and is the oldest and largest African-American organization in that field. |
| American
Friends Service Committee |
Long and short-term service. Quaker service,
training, witness and internships . Includes people of various faiths
who are committed to social justice, peace, and humanitarian service. |
| American
Red Cross |
International Services Department - ARC works to improve
the quality of human life and enhance its sister nations in disaster preparedness
and response, primary health care education, AIDS/HIV education, blood
collection and processing, capacity building and other programmatic areas. |
| Cross
Cultural Solutions |
Cross-Cultural Solutions is a non-profit organization
that sends volunteers abroad to provide humanitarian assistance with our
Volunteer Programs in Asia, Africa and Latin America and China. |
| Explorations
in Travel |
Long-term service. Provides volunteer work placements for
people looking to spend and extended amount of time in an area. College
credit may be available. |
| Foundation
for Sustainable Development |
Summer internship program, long and short-term
service, experiential learning. Dedicated to the support of sustainable
development initiatives in the developing world with primary focus on
Latin America. Internships with local grassroots organizations in Nicaragua,
Venezuela, Guatemala, and El Salvador. |
| Fourth
World Movement |
Priority to, learning from, and partnership with those
in persistent poverty. |
| Glen Falls Medical
Mission Project - Guatemala |
The mission of the Glens Falls Medical
Missionary Foundation is to develop a sustained effort to work with the
people of one area in the developing world. We provide the local residents
with needed health benefits, including both the medical care itself and
the tools to empower them to evolve their own health care. |
| Global
Service Corps |
Long-term (2 months +) and short-term (2-3 weeks) service.
Global Service Corps works to match your interests with international
organizations' needs. They deal with issues ranging from education to
women's issues to agriculture in countries like Costa Rica, Thailand,
and Kenya. |
Institute
for International Cooperation and Development |
A non-profit organization
dedicated to promoting global understanding and international solidarity.
IICD sends volunteers to Africa and Latin America to teach children, plant
trees, educate people in rural communities, and help construct schools
and clinics. |
International
Volunteer Expeditions |
International Volunteer Expeditions ("IVEX")
is a non-profit California corporation, an associate member of CCIVS (Coordinating
Committee for International Voluntary Service) at UNESCO. IVEX exists
solely to facilitate international voluntary service. |
| Just Act |
National non-profit that enables students to work together for grassroots
development throughout the world.Their Opportunities Program has a Clearinghouse
service that helps students arrange internships and volunteer placements
with grassroots community organizations in the United States and abroad. |
| Knights
Bridge International |
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| Our Little
Brothers and Sisters (Nuestros Pequenos Hermanos) |
Acharitable organization
serving orphaned and abandoned children in Latin America and the Caribbean
Provide food, shelter, clothing, health care, and education in a Christian
family environment based on unconditional acceptance and love, sharing,
working and responsibility. |
| Peace
Brigades International |
Unique grassroots organization implementing
nonviolent approach to peacekeeping and support for human rights. PBI
sends teams of volunteers to provide protective accompaniment for individuals
and groups threatened by political repression. |
| Peacecorps |
Long-term service. Formed by the U.S. government to promote world peace,
mutual understanding and offer trained men and women to countries in need.
Every year 6500 volunteers address issues including agriculture, education,
health, engineering, business, urban planning, and environment in over
90 countries world wide. Must have a degree to participate. |
| Peacework |
Short and long-term service. Volunteer organization managing humanitarian
service and development projects throughout the world. |
| Project
India |
Cross-Cultural Solutions: Short and long-term placements, cultural
and service immersions. "Project India means coming face to face with
global issues and then becoming part of the solution. Volunteers work
at local social service organizations and experiencing life in a developing
country. Project works on sustainable community development, empowerment,
and education. |
| Service
Civil International |
Short-term international workcamps, medium and
long-term voluntary service. Volunteer service organization with 33 branches
worldwide. Aims to promote peace, international understanding and solidarity,
social justice, sustainable development, and respect for the environment. |
| SIPAZ
(International Service for Peace) |
Long-term volunteer placements
in Chiapas, Mexico Created as a response from the international community
to the sense among many sectors in Mexico that international opinion could
contribute to the search for a peaceful solution to the conflict in Chiapas.
Requires Spanish fluency and prior international work. |
| Visions
in Action |
Long-term service, internships in D.C.. An international,
progressive non-profit organization founded on the conviction that there
is much we can learn from and contribute to the developing world as part
of a community of volunteers committed to social justice. Opportunities
in the urban settings of Africa and Mexico. |
| Voluntarios
Solidarios - Task Force on Latin America and the Caribbean |
Voluntarios
Solidarios seeks to replace violence, war, racism, and economic injustice
with nonviolence, peace, and justice. |
| Voluntary
Service Overseas |
Long-term service. VSO places volunteers in one
of many two-year projects in a developing nation. Women and men work alongside
people in poorer countries in order to promote international understanding
and action in pursuit of a more equitable world. |
| Volunteers
in Asia |
Long-term service teaching English and study tours of Asia
with a public service component VIA annually sends between 30-40 English
teachers to Indonesia, Laos, Vietnam, and China. Also offer 2-5 week study/service
programs in Asia. |
| World
Teach |
Placements of 8 weeks to 1 year Organization based at Harvard
University sends volunteers overseas to teach a variety of subjects in
developing countries. Housing and a small stipend are provided. |
