Completing service work abroad during a gap year is a growing trend from young people.
Visit the following organizations offering short term volunteering opportunities:
Global Vision International (GVI) - Provides over 50 Volunteering opportunities in more than countries including community development projects, teaching English as a foreign language, wildlife rehabilitation programs, marine conservation expeditions and much more. GVI also run a variety of courses to help you with you volunteering experience including language and TEFL courses.
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.
Amigos de las Americas - Offers volunteer opportunities for young people around Central and South America.
Operation Crossroads Africa - Offers numerous volunteer opportunities through Africa.
CERCOPAN - Dedicated to the preservation of biodiversity through conservation of rainforest primates and their habitat.
Global Citizens - Sponsors teams of volunteers wishing to learn from and work with people in other cultures.
Altruistic Adventures - Plans and hosts expeditions and volunteer service projects around the world.
Amizade - Offers service learning courses to graduate and undergraduate students with communities around the world.
Lisle - Provides intercultural programs and service learning opportunities abroad.
Cultural Restoration Tourism Project - Working with local communities to restore culturally important structures, and promoting responsible tourism through "volunteer vacations".
Global Volunteers - Global Volunteers mobilizes some 150 service-learning teams year-around to work in 19 countries on six continents.
The Borneo Project - Partners with communities and local organizations that document and map ancestral land claims, litigate to halt forest destruction, teach villagers their rights, market traditional handicrafts, reforest degraded areas, install microhydro electrification, and protect Borneo's incredible biodiversity.
Earthwatch Institute - An international non-profit organization supporting scientific field research and offering members of the public the opportunity to work with distinguished field scientists.
Volunteers for Peace - Offers a myriad of low cost volunteer workcamps all over the world.
Global Service Corps - Working with local communities to restore culturally important structures, and promoting responsible tourism through "volunteer vacations".
