Voluntary Work
'You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.'
Kahlil Gibran's 'The Prophet', 1923. 
 


If you have a site or a cause that offers opportunities for volunteers to work for the greater good of all humanity and you would like to submit a link, please click here for further information:


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Worldwide Organisations
Cross-Cultural Solutions is a non-profit organization that sends over 1,000 volunteers abroad each year to provide humanitarian assistance with their Volunteer Work Programs in Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Ghana, India, Peru, Russia and Thailand.

GVI is a non-political, non-religious organisation, which runs over 150 projects in over 40 countries.

  

Global Volunteers mobilize more than 2,500 volunteers annually on work projects, assisting more than 100 host communities in 19 countries on five continents through volunteer service, direct project funding and child sponsorships.

  
Global Volunteer Network currently has volunteer opportunities available through its partner organizations in China, Ecuador, Ghana, Nepal, New Zealand, Romania, Russia, Thailand & Uganda.
IICD (Insitute for International Cooperation & Development) trains & sends Volunteers to work on projects in Africa, India, Vietnam and Central America.
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has 178 member National Societies, who rely on volunteers from their communities to carry out their programmes. Together, an estimated 20 million Red Cross and Red Crescent volunteers worldwide assist some 233 million beneficiaries each year.
ORBIS is a global, non-profit, humanitarian organization that helps save sight and eliminate avoidable blindness worldwide.
Peace Corps have 7,000 volunteers serving in 70 countries, working to bring clean water to communities, teach children, help start new small businesses, and stop the spread of AIDS.

Travellers Worldwise work with over 300 projects around the world, working in predominantly developing countries.

  

Volunteer abroad programs has a directory of over 17,000 opportunities abroad updated daily

 

Volunteers for Peace currently have short-term international voluntary service programs in 80 countries.

Provides voluntary and professional work opportunities in over 150 countries world-wide.

  

Worldwide Helpers is a non profit search engine created to foster partnerships between volunteers and charitable organisations worldwide. It commits itself to removing the financial barriers of volunteering by providing only low/no cost projects. It raises awareness of organisations and communities worldwide and provides them with the manpower they need to survive.

  

Worldwide Volunteering: a unique ‘search and match’ database with over 1450 volunteer organisations and 1.1 million placements throughout the UK and in 214 countries worldwide.

 

The World Volunteer Web supports the volunteer community by serving as a global hub for information and resources linked to volunteerism that can be used for campaigning, advocacy and networking. They have a constituency comprising of over 20,000 organizations and individuals.

  

WWOOF is a world wide network of organisations. They link volunteers with organic farmers, and help people share more sustainable ways of living.

  

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AFRICA
 
 

SOUTH & CENTRAL AMERICA


EUROPE
The College for International Co-operation & Development (CICD) is a school, located near Hull, England. It trains Development Instructors (6 month course) for 6 months work in Africa. (Mozambique, Angola, Malawi & Namibia).
 
 

SOUTH & CENTRAL ASIA
 
 
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