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Volunteer: A Traveller's Guide
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Volunteer - A Traveller's Guide to Making A difference Around the World
Organised Volunteer Programs
top ∧International
AIESEC
AIESEC is an international student platform in over 800 universities, which includes some 22,000 members, and as such is the world's largest student organisation. More ›
AFS Intercultural Programmes UK
With over 60 years of experience and volunteering opportunities around the world, AFS has its hands in many placement projects. More ›
ATD Fourth World
ATD Fourth World sends volunteers to work alongside families living in poverty throughout the developed and developing worlds and asks for a high level of commitment both in training and time spent abroad. More ›
BUNAC (British Universities North America Club)
Better known for their working holiday and camp counselling programmes, BUNAC also offers seven volunteer programmes. More ›
Cross-Cultural Solutions
www.crossculturalsolutions.org
Cross-Cultural Solutions offers volunteer programmes in 16 regions around the world. More ›
Global Adventures Project
With placements open to British and American students, Global Adventures Project (a division of American Institute for Foreign Study) offers a kind of volunteering smorgasbord, allowing participants to mix and match placement options around the world using a 12-month round-the-world (RTW) ticket to bounce between them. More ›
Greenforce
Greenforce runs a series of environmental projects around the globe, focusing on wildlife conservation. More ›
International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
The IFRC is a non-religious organisation and, with millions of volunteers, the largest relief organisation in the world. More ›
International Medical Corps (IMC)
IMC is a private non-political, non-sectarian organisation that assists with healthcare training and relief services in the developing world. More ›
i-to-i
As one of the largest volunteer-sending organisations in the world, i-to-i sends scads of international volunteers abroad, mostly on teaching placements. Really, they're huge: there are over 500 placements in 22 countries. More ›
Médecins du Monde (MdM)
Médecins du Monde is an international humanitarian organisation that sends medical and non-medical volunteers abroad to provide healthcare to vulnerable populations around the world. More ›
Médecins Sans Frontiéres (MSF)/Doctors Without Borders
With offices in 19 countries and operations around the world, MSF is one of the most well-recognised international voluntary medical relief organisations. More ›
Student Partnerships Worldwide (SPW)
SPW is an international development charity that trains young people to work as peer educators on programmes that address urgent health and environmental issues in Africa and Asia. More ›
Teaching & Projects Abroad
Another large agency with multiple international offices, Teaching & Projects Abroad deploys armies of volunteers in hundreds of positions around the world. More ›
Raleigh International
Every year about 300 volunteer staff work with Raleigh's volunteers and local community members on projects in three areas: community, environmental and adventure. More ›
Voluntary Service Organisation (VSO)
VSO is an international development charity that works to alleviate poverty in the developing world by recruiting professional volunteers from countries around the world. More ›
Australasian
Australian Volunteers International (AVI) Youth Programme
Australian Volunteers International (AVI) is Australia's oldest volunteer operation placing skilled volunteers on sustainable development projects. They run a Youth Programme for people aged 18 to 30 years. More ›
Australian Volunteers International (AVI)
The most well known of Australia's volunteer programmes, Australian Volunteers International (AVI) has been operating since 1951 and has recruited more than 6000 Australians for volunteer placements in over 68 countries. More ›
World Expeditions
World Expeditions is an Australian adventure-travel outfit which offers community project trips to developing countries while enabling travellers to enjoy a cultural experience in stunning terrain. More ›
Volunteer Service Abroad (VSA), Te Tuao Tawahi
Volunteer Service Abroad is New Zealand's main volunteer agency working in the field of international development and is always on the look-out for people with the diverse skills, from beekeeping to nursing, needed by its partner organisations overseas. More ›
United Kingdom
Azafady
This registered charity sends volunteers to help with grass-roots conservation and sustainable development programmes in Madagascar. More ›
European Voluntary Service (EVS)/ Connect Youth
www.connectyouthinternational.com
EVS is funded by the European Union and will basically pay you to volunteer in another European country. More ›
Hands Up Holidays
Hands Up Holidays was created to allow tourists to enjoy meaningful interaction with different cultures and to give something back through a volunteering 'taster'. More ›
Youth for Development (YfD)
By concentrating on six areas - education, HIV and AIDS, disability, health and social well-being, participation and governance and secure livelihoods - VSO's Youth for Development Programme helps young people get their first taste of intensive international volunteer service. More ›
United States
Peace Corps
Founded in 1961, the organisation is an independent federal agency of the United States Government that has sent almost 200,000 people on 27-month development, humanitarian and relief assignments around the world. More ›
