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Humanitarian Projects

Help the young children at an aids orphanage in Cameroon or help a local community in the Andes! You will always remember the smiles you bring to the many faces!

Asia

Help handicapped children
Placement number: 0133
Location: India
Mother Theresa Society for the Handicapped-Udumalpet is a small voluntary organization providing care and rehabilitation for rural poor children who are differently abled since 1998.
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Little Prakash is desperately seeking YOUR Help
Placement number: 0158
Location: Northern India
This is a small school in a poor area of Northern India attached to an orphanage. Help is needed to care for the orphans and to teach at the school. Fundraising is needed to provide better classrooms.
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Elephant Park

Rural development
Placement number: 0184
Location: India
Mitraniketan is an education based community engaged in rural development activities since its inception in the year 1956. We promote protection better environment activities and water/soil conservation in our campus as well as in project villages.
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Contact this Organisation to help you Volunteer in Nepal
Placement number: 0155
Location: Nepal
We are a small company working for the last 25 years in the enchanting Himalayan kingdom of Nepal in various fields of volunteering and human resources. We have worked, and are working, with a number of renowned International and domestic organizations and institutions and are affiliated with organizations, private bodies, trusts, institutions etc. working with volunteers.
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Africa

Youth Centre
Placement number: 0060
Location: Cameroon
United action for Children is a child and youth centered organisation operating in the South West Province of Cameroon.
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School Child Care Project
Placement number: 0149
Location: Cameroon
The Unique School Child Care Project is a comprehensive daily childhood care and special educational institution, created for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged rural children, {street children, orphans, poor children}. Most especially an attempt to eliminate gender disparities in Education in these villages - Batoke, Sokolo, Mukondange, Ngeme, Bobende, Idenau and the environs, with a focus on ensuring girls full and equal access to an achievement in essential life skills.
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Women and Youth Project
Placement number: 0150
Location: Cameroon
Reach Out is a women and youth centered organisation operating in the South West Province with the main office in Great Soppo Buea, and field offices in Kumba, Boa Balondo, Mamfe; focal points in Limbe and Mundemba.
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Help give street children a chance!
Placement Number: 0071
Location: Ghana
Our aim is to provide education for street children, not only in the usual school subject, but also in any skills they might need in order to start living self sufficiently. We are therefore fighting to help alleviate poverty, hunger, illiteracy, malnutrition and drug abuse, unemployment.
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Clinics in Ghana
Placement number: 0126
Location:Ghana
Help in the rural clinics of Ghana. HIV/aids, diarrhea, malaria and typhoid are strife in this area of Africa and with your help we can try to control these epidemics.
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Help the people of Ghana
Placement number: 0142
Location:Ghana
We support people with HIV/AIDS by supplying them with drugs, councilling and take care of the orphans of aids. We also help by teaching in schools about the disease and assist doctors in hospitals. We also donate to local orphanages with the supply of clothes and many more!
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Volunteer in Ghana - Vast range of projects
Placement number: 0162
Location: Ghana
The Learning Helping Living (NGO) is a community based, non-profit and nongovernmental organization recognized by the Department of Social Welfare in 1984 and Registered with the Registrar Generals Department in 1989. It has branches all over the country particularly Greater Accra Region, Northern Region, Central, Volta, Ashanti, Eastern and Brong Ahafo regions.
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Construction of Recreation center
Placement number: 0168
Location: Ghana
We are constructing a new recreational center for the under privileged youth of Ghana. The construction of the center will start in 2008 and once finished will house computer and game facilities for the children of Roforidua
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Help with group in Ghana
Placement number: 0186
Location: Ghana
We deal solely with one small village in the Central Region of Ghana and have two different schemes,
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Volunteer in Kenya
Placement number: 0046
Location: Kenya
A Non-Government, "not for profit" registered community based organization(CBO) which aims to find volunteer placements and provide support for individual volunteers in our country, Kenya.
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Rural Orphanage/youth centre
Placement number: 0052
Location: Kenya
Volunteer at our youth centre! Most of our children are orphanaged and most have HIV or aids.
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Sport Youth Camps
Placement number: 0108
Location: Kenya
A local organization has started 10 soccer teams. The aim is to have youth engage in wholesome activities and teach them life skills. To safeguard the continuation of the soccer teams and extend to educational activities a Sports Foundation needs to be set up.
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Corps in Kenya
Placement number: 0171
Location: Kenya
Ours is a Long and Medium Term Volunteer (LMTV) project. This is where we provide volunteers from across the world with an opportunity to work with community based organization (CBOs) and NGO, whose focus is on issues that address poverty, youth, gender empowerment as well as other development issues.
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Community help in the Sahara
Placement number: 0172
Location: Morocco
Our ecolodge is a traditional earth building with 18 rooms, situated in a village in the High Atlas, a 4 hour drive from Marrakech. Camp d¹Atta and Camp des Roses are 2 traditionnally built eco-camps with 10 Saharan tents and 7 ³caidal² tents respectively.
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Small scale community projects
Placement number: 0069
Location: Mozambique.
Volunteer with one of our many small scale projects which include schools, construction, medical care and agrculture.
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Help South African NGO
Placement number: 0145
Location: South Africa.
Help us to reduce poverty through health care and education.
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Self-help community project
Placement number: 0182
Location: Uganda
Our Self-help Community Project is a non governmental, non profit, non denominational, community based project that was initiated in 2004 as a response to the overwhelming challenges faced by the community namely; HIV and AIDS, Child abuse, domestic violence, Poverty, Illiteracy, environmental degradation and unemployment.
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Australia/Oceania

There are currently no community projects available in Australia or Oceania. Please sign-up to our mailing list to receive notification of new placements.

Europe

Help the Elderly
Placement number: 0130
Location: Moldova
Sunrise Assisted Living Center for Senior Citizens aims to serve the most vulnerable category of people in Moldova - those elderly who are single (lonely), sick, or physically differently abled, and who therefore need extra help caring for themselves.
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North America/Caribbean

There are currently no community projects available in North America or the Caribbean. Please sign-up to our mailing list to receive notification of new placements.

Central America

Improve your Spanish while volunteerng
Placement number: 0147
Location: Cosat Rica
We provide the best Spanish tuition in Central America and while you learn you can help out at schools, orphanages and conservation projects! Sound good? Enquire today and volunteer tomorrow!
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Orphanage in Honduras
Placement number: 0174
Location: Honduras
Centro Internacional de Idiomas Honduras Orphanage volunteer project offers volunteers a marvelous opportunity to help street children who have been rescued by child care organizations in providing them with care, love, education, and recreation. Volunteers will be involved with a wide range of activities that offer learning as well as love to orphaned children.
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HIV/Aids awareness
Placement number: 0175
Location: Honduras
In recent years, Honduras has experienced a rapid increase in HIV infections, accounting for nearly 60 percent of all cases reported in Central America. Roughly 80 percent of all reported cases are attributable to heterosexual transmission, and studies indicate that between 1 and 4 percent of pregnant women have been infected with the virus.
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Health care
Placement number: 0176
Location: Honduras
Unfortunately, the public health care system in Honduras is one of the worst in Latin America. There are very few good hospitals, and most middle class families are unable to afford them. Therefore, able volunteers in our Volunteer Honduras Health Project assist in local hospitals which are often poorly-equipped.
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South America

Live with the indigenous tribe - Pilon Lajas
Placement number: 0089
Location: Bolivia.
We are the only community-based, indigenous ecotourism enterprise in the reserve and indigenous territory of Pilón Lajas. We offer you the opportunity to enjoy one of the most biodiverse areas and to get to know our thousand year old traditions.
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Help at an Orphanage
Placement number: 0157
Location: Brazil.
We are an orphanage dedicated to the shelter and protection of children and adolescents, giving priority to their education and improving their employment potential. Fluent Portugese required.Free food and accommodation. Teachers, doctors, engineers and organic farmers required.
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Community Development Projects
Placement number: 0088
Location: Ecuador
We are an Ecuadorian non-profit organization dedicated to finding workable solutions between the ideals of rainforest conservation and the reality of rural life. You will work together with the local people to improve education, develop community-based medical care, establish sustainable agricultural practices, provide environmentally sustainable economic alternatives, and conserve Ecuador’s rainforest.
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Help the Street Children
Placement number: 0135
Location: Peru
A team of international and Peruvian volunteers provide food, classes and medical attention to children who would otherwise be on the streets. Inca Wasi's main goal is getting all children to attend school. It helps with the provision of school materials; it also fosters good relations within the community.
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Help the Street Children
Placement number: 0154
Location: Peru
A team of international and Peruvian volunteers provide food, classes and medical attention to children who would otherwise be on the streets. Seeds of Hope provides help to children in education right up until they are ready for work.
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Benefit the young Pemon Indians
Placement number: 0053
Location: Venezuela
This is a registered grass-roots volunteer charity near the border with Brazil and Guyana, South America. Our challenging community development projects in humanitarian, educational and environmental fields improve the living qualities of an underprivileged young generation, mostly members of local Pemon Indian communities.
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Various projects near Angel Falls
Placement number: 0187
Location: Venezuela
All our projects are located in the Gran Sabana in the south-east of Venezuela, between the Orinoco and Amazon river basin. The highland area includes the huge National Park Canaima with its famous table-top mountains, Angel Falls and innumerable rivers that flow on jasper river-beds.
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