Amigos De Las Americas
Promotes community health and facilitates cross-cultural understanding for the people of the Americas. Service is primarily abroad.

ARTCORPS
Volunteer artists work in a developing 3rd world country to help deliver their message message on health, protection of the environment, sustainable agriculture, etc. Stipend provided for airfare and supplies.

AVSO
An international, non-governmental organization forming a European platform of national and international non-profit organizations active in long term voluntary service.

Camphill
Experience the satisfaction of contributing your service to a caring community in the U.K.

Christian Foundation for Children and Aging
Responsibilities may include teaching, translating (Spanish-English), childcare, healthcare, or parish work. Volunteers primarily serve in Central and South America and in India. 

Community Aid Abroad
Opportunities for volunteer service in Australia.

Community Based Initiatives
Kenya based research, educaton, and communitiy conservation organization with aims of  helping local communities discover their heritage.

Concern America
Seeks volunteers who offer abilities or a degree/experience in public health, medicine, nutrition, nursing, agriculture, community development, education, or appropriate technology. 

Covenant House
Offers protection and safeguards for children of the street. Locations served include Alaska, California, Florida, Michigan, Missouri, Louisiana, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Washington, D.C., and locations in Canada.

Cross Cultural Solutions
Each volunteer contributes to sustained social development through fostering cultural understanding, creating self sufficiency, and empowerment of people in India and Africa.

Doctors of the World 
A national and international organization which employs over 12,000 medical professionals committed to the cause of peace and reconciliation through medical care.

Eirene
Germany's ecumenical international peace and development service organization: volunteers work in a variety of projects in many countries helping to build solidarity, provide relief, and establish just systems and structures in the third world countries. Commitments are two years.

Explorations in Travel
Immerse yourself in a different culture, practice and improve your foreign language skills, meet people of various walks of life. Explorations in Travel arranges volunteer placements under supervision of established conservation reserve, school, private business or service agency. Application fees apply.

Frontiers Foundation
Canadian based organization which sponsors education and construction development projects in the western hemisphere. Current work areas range from Haiti and Bolivia to various regions in Canada.

Habitat for Humanitiy
Through Americorps, Habitat for Humanity volunteers can work on low income housing construction projects in any of the 50 U.S. states while receiving living stipends and educational grants.

Happy Horizons Children's Ranch
Volunteers aid in the efforts of rehabilitation and defense of street children in the Philippines. On Happy Horizon's Web site, scroll down to "Volunteer" to obtain information.

International Medical Volunteer Association
Provides information about dozens of organizations that require medical or medical support personnel to help carry out their humanitarian missions. Volunteers are a varied group and include doctors, nurses, therapists, students, technicians, religious missionaries, and other dedicated persons with non-medical training.

Jesuit Volunteer Corps 
The largest Catholic lay volunteer program in the country, Jesuit volunteers serve the homeless, unemployed, refugees, people with aids, elderly, street youth, abused women and children, mentally ill, and developmentally disabled. Placements available across the nation and around the globe.

Lasallian Volunteers 
Volunteers serve in areas of education and related human development services. Limited international opportunities available.*

Mercy Ships
Volunteers traverse the world while providing numerous services, training provided, helping the needy in port cities.

Mission Doctors
A non-profit organization sponsoring Catholic physicians and their families in mission hospitals and clinics in Africa.

Nuestros Pequenos Hermanos
Qualified volunteers help raise and educate over 550 children who come from difficult backgrounds. Operating houses in Mexico, Guatemala, Haiti, Nicaragua and Honduras.

Peace Brigades International 
Implement nonviolent approaches to peacekeeping in areas of violent conflict and repression. They offer unarmed protective accompaniment to individuals, organizations and communities threatened with violence and human rights abuses.

Peace Corps
Official home page. Numerous opportunities exist in a variety of service positions around the globe.

Service Civil International 
Volunteer for a year overseas engaging in a work camp. Work camps fall under two main categories social: working with children, elderly, special needs, or art-related projects, and physical: construction, housing repair, and maintenance.   

Simon Community of Ireland
Volunteers work with the homeless in Ireland providing various outreach services; nightly soup-runs, establishing emergency shelters and long-stay residential houses, and other projects.

Student Partnership Worldwide
Runs school-based and environmental grass-roots development programs in Africa and Asia. Some social development programs avialable.

United Childrens Fund Inc.
Volunteers teach in Uganda's local schools assisting teachers and caring for the disabled children while in the classroom, or helping them to and from school. Teaching experience is not required.

Visions in Action
International nonprofit organization offering volunteer positions in five African countries and Mexico.  Positions needed are in health care and housing, small business, youth and children, scientific research, social science research, journalism, and democratization.

Volunteers in Asia!
Volunteers teach English at colleges and universities in Indonesia, China, Vietnam, or Laos.  

VSO
The largest independent volunteer sending charity in the world has sent over 27,000 volunteers to work in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and Eastern Europe since 1958. Numerous types of opportunities and positions are available.

World Teach
Spend a year overseas providing valuable service, experiencing life in another culture while participating in international development.

World Work Information Service
Directory of organizations listing services and opportunities. Online search engine available.