Children are the future. The following organizations offer volunteer abroad work protecting, supporting, and improving the lives of the world's youth.
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Visit the following organizations offering volunteer abroad opportunities with children:
i-to-i International Projects - Provides a variety of volunteer work experiences including teaching English as a foreign language, community development, conservation, construction, and free TEFL training.
Volunteer for the Visayans - Recruits international volunteers from all over the world to come to the Philippines for a cultural experience while contributing to local community projects. Volunteers work in local health clinics, with the social welfare office, in local orphanages, with the street children, or teach English in local elementary schools.
Casa Guatemala - An orphanage that cares for the nurturing, health and education of over 250 children. Offers numerous volunteer opportunities.
Childlife - Provides the street children in Mae Sai with a safe refuge, shelter and home, food, health and non-formal education.
Child Haven - Offers volunteer opportunities running homes for children in India and Nepal.
Casa Alianza - An independent, non profit organisation dedicated to the rehabilitation and defense of street children in Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua.
Children Better Way - Helps children who are suffering due to man-made and/or natural disasters by providing quality education, inculding HIV/AIDS awareness, prevention, shelter, recreation, and more.
Camphill Community Trust Botswana - A school for disabled children, set within the context of a shared, Christian, communal life in Botwana.
Careforce International - A leading Christain humanitarian organization helping needy children around the world.
Escuela de la Calle - A Guatemalan indigenous organization dedicated to improving the lives of destitute children in the southwestern highland city of Quetzaltenango, known locally as Xela (SHAY-la).
Huruma Children’s Home - An orphanage in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya in East Africa. It is located in beautiful surroundings at the foot of the Ngong Hills.
Help a School Project - A non-governmental organization whose main goal is to help enhance education and development in Ghana.
Makindu Children's Center - The mission of the Makindu Children's Program is to improve the health, safety, education, and well being of orphaned and impoverished children in and around Makindu, Kenya, and through collaborative efforts, strengthen the larger community.
Right To Play - A humanitarian, non-governmental organization (NGO) committed to improving the lives of the most disadvantaged children and their communities through Sport for Development.
Orphan Helpers - Dedicated to serving and ministering to the physical and spiritual needs of orphaned, abandoned and incarcerated youth and children.
Interactive Foundation - Serves orphaned children, the under privileged, single teenage mothers and the homeless.
Interplast, Inc. - Since 1969, Interplast has partnered with physicians in developing countries to provide free reconstructive plastic surgery for needy children and adults who have nowhere else to turn for help.
King's Children's Home - A private, non-profit organization that is dedicated to helping and providing residential care for children in difficult circumstances regardless of their social status, culture, race or religious belief.
Volunteer Nepal - A provides volunteer opportunities in Nepali schools and social organizations for overseas volunteers from diverse backgrounds.
Little Children of the World - Addresses the plight of children of low-income families in developing countries.
Orphanage Africa - A charity project that aims to make African orphanages self sufficient by investing in sustainable technology, land and education.
Safe Passage - A community of local and foreign volunteers, sponsors, and a small Guatemalan staff working together to provide hope and assistance to the children of families living at the Guatemala City Garbage Dump.
Smiles Foundation - A registered Canadian charitable organisation. It is a sister foundation to Fundacion para la Prevencion y la Salud Bucal de los Niños (commonly referred to as Sonrisas) in the Dominican Republic.
Bridges for Education - Offers paying volunteer teaching positions in camps in Eastern Europe and China.
Volunteer Society Nepal - Established with the objective of supporting children in various areas.
Global Children Organization – Nurtures children traumatized by intolerance, terrorism, or war by providing summer camps and on-going programs which prepare both children and volunteers to be active participants in building a peaceful world.
