Volunteer teaching is a great way to mix altruism with travel overseas.
Visit the following organizations offering volunteer teaching opportunities:
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.
Amity Institute - A nonprofit organization building international friendship and cultural understanding through teaching exchange.
Africa & Asia Venture - Offering volunteer work programs for students during their gap year.
Ageless International Foundation - A charitable organization seeking to empower the African continent with knowledge and basic skills on Information Technology, Internet Access and Computer Literacy.
Burma Volunteer Program - Provides educational opportunities to mixed ethnic nationality students from Burma who are presently living in Thailand.
Centro de Intercambio y Solidaridad - Promotes solidarity and cultural exchange across borders between the Salvadoran people and others in the search for development and dignity.
Financial Services Volunteer Corps - Places individuals in 1 to 2 week service projects in Croatia, Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia and Ukraine.
WorldTeach - A non-profit, non-governmental organization based at the Center for International Development at Harvard University which provides opportunities for individuals to make a meaningful contribution to international education by living and working as volunteer teachers in developing countries.
Bridges for Education - Offers paying volunteer teaching positions in camps in Eastern Europe and China.
VAE Volunteer Teachers in Kenya - Gives western educated, privileged students the opportunity to live and work in Kenya.