Ugunja Community Resource Centre (UCRC) welcomes open-minded, motivated individuals eager to learn from and contribute to small-scale, community-based development initiatives. International placements are available within a range of programs and activities revolving around issues such as sustainable agriculture, preserving indigenous knowledge, women and youth empowerment, health, human rights, technology transfer,...

Youth Action for Peace (YAP) organizes a great variety of activities to give young people the experience to learn and demonstrate peaceful living together with people from different cultures and to contribute to local community and peace development. Their activities are international exchanges of volunteers into non-profit initiatives, international training...

World Challenge offers long and short term adventure travel expeditions. Expeditions take place all around the globe, and range from one to four weeks. While short term expeditions focus on adventure travel, long term expeditions incorporate volunteer community work, adventure travel and cultural immersion. For more information on cost and...

AVIF offers volunteer placements in Kenya with volunteers taking part in teaching in local schools and distributing dental products and medicines. Volunteers live with hosts in very remote, rural locations, and will be placed with at least one other volunteer. There is no programme fee, but volunteers who stay on...

United Children's Fund, Inc. (UNC) offers volunteer placements in Ugandan clinics, schools, farms, etc. for periods of up to six months. UNC works with local NGO's and local village organizations to assist children and families who are in the greatest need. This grassroots approach allows volunteers to provide exactly what...

Operation Crossroads Africa, Inc. offers a seven week volunteer project- The Africa Programme. The Africa Programme has three components: three orientation days before departure, six work weeks on a development project in the host country, and one travel week in the host country. The time volunteers will spend as members...

Soft Power Education provides volunteer opportunities for participants to help improve the educational facilities of schools in Uganda. Volunteers come from countries around the world to live and work in Uganda while living within the local community, experiencing new cultures and working alongside the locals. Projects are all focused on...

Kenya Voluntary Development Association (KVDA) aims to promote peace, understanding, justice and development among Kenyans and within the international community. For this purpose the association recruits young men and women from diverse ethnic, national and educational backgrounds around the world, to facilitate participatory development education among marginalized communities and empowers...

Changing Worlds pride itself on the quality of their service to customers. Their placements are carefully designed to give volunteers a great experience in their chosen country. The placements are visited and monitored regularly by their overseas representatives. The Changing Worlds directors are also in regular contact and visit at...

The Leap provides a variety of voluntary work and sporting programmes all round the world. They uniquely combine the exciting elements of adventure travel with helping on sustainable eco-tourism/safari, conservation and community projects. All Leap projects mix projects in eco-tourism, community and conservation - the