TOPIC: VOLUNTEERING (95)
Zero Bound
http://www.zerobound.com
Zero Bound is a web-based platform for students and alumni to reduce student loan debt through sponsored volunteerism. Students and alumni crowdfund their student loans in exchange for volunteering in the community.
Amistad Institute
http://www.aicr-edu.orgFounded in 2003, Amistad Institute is an organization located in Heredia, San Jose downtown, and Jaco Beach, Costa Rica. The Amistad Spanish school offers language classes, as well as exchange and volunteer programs all around the country from a staff that has near 20 years experience in the language immersion and volunteer industries.
Garhwal English Medium School
http://gems-school.orgGEMS is a charitable school located in the Indian Himalaya. We educate over 200 students who come from over 25 villages in the area. These children would not have access to quality education if it were not for our school. We invite volunteers from around the world to come and teach in our school, and share their knowledge and skills with our children. We are in the business of providing children with skills and opportunities so they will have more choices in their lives and hopefully be able to rise out of poverty.
Starfish Volunteers
http://www.starfishvolunteers.comAt Starfish Volunteers we believe in enriching lives through responsible travel. As soon as you begin your travel adventure with us you will be assisting in developing the local community through your chosen project. All of the experiences that we offer have been carefully selected to not only ensure that they benefit the community, but also to give you a lasting lifetime experience and memories. We operate at a grassroots level, in-country, so that we can continue to offer you the best travel adventures out there.
GoEco
http://www.goeco.orgGoEco is a humanitarian and ecological volunteering organization that exists to encourage ecological and volunteer tourism as a platform for sustainable development. GoEco provides access for volunteers to numerous worldwide humanitarian and ecological initiatives by enabling travellers to experience unique and more rewarding tourism. Volunteers are given the opportunity to give back to foreign communities, serving as good-will ambassadors for their own country. GoEco also brings volunteers from all over the world to Israel to partake in ecological and community based projects in both the Arab and Jewish sectors, creating an understanding of the unique cultural and natural diversity of the region while promoting social responsibility between the different ethnic groups in Israel. GoEco is also involved in conducting research into ecological tourism as a tool for sustainable tourism development.
Rainbow VolunTours
http://www.rainbowvoluntours.comWe offer rewarding and affordable volunteering options in India, in which participants can live like a local and contribute to social good from a ground level. We immerse individuals into Indian culture, and encourage them to live and work with locals. Our programs range from education, sports and arts to disabled children, womens empowerment and helping with construction. We also organise adventure tours and bespoke volunteering options.
Be My Eyes
http://www.bemyeyes.orgBe My Eyes is an app that connects blind people with volunteer helpers from around the world via live video chat. Download now and start helping blind people see.
SLV
http://slvolunteers.comSLV is a volunteer organisation providing vocation specific placements in Sri Lanka. Our placements abroad offer the chance to gain work experience in teaching English, coaching sports, working with children and with people with special needs, and working in the mental health sector.
iHeartVolunteers
https://iheartvolunteers.comPeople who volunteer share interests and core values such as compassion, a sense of adventure, flexibility and most importantly the desire to help improve the lives of people and the communities in which they live. iHeartVolunteers is an exclusive dating service to help these people connect.
Me to We
http://www.metowe.comMe to We is an innovative social enterprise that provides people with better choices for a better world. We offer socially conscious and environmentally friendly products as well as life-changing experiences. Me to We measures the bottom line, not by dollars earned, but by the number of lives changed and the positive social and environmental impact made. Half of Me to We’s net profit is donated to Free The Children. The other half is reinvested to grow the enterprise and its social mission.
WWOOF-World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms
http://www.wwoof.orgWWOOF is a world wide network of organisations. We link volunteers with organic farmers, and help people share more sustainable ways of living.
WWOOF is an exchange - In return for volunteer help, WWOOF hosts offer food, accommodation and opportunities to learn about organic lifestyles.
OneDay Social Volunteering
http://www.onedayvolunteering.orgOneDay Social Volunteering is an international social organization that provides a platform for young adults to volunteer in a wide range of activities in the most flexible, accessible and enjoyable way, while increasing their social and professional networks with people their own age.
Volunteer Mzansi AFRIKA
http://www.volunteermzansiafrika.com/Volunteer Mzansi AFRIKA is a BEE social entrepreneurship volunteer and travel company based in Cape Town, South Africa that provides holistic programmes that positively affect and has impact on the lives of volunteers, improves the sustainability of projects with the aim of benefiting communities. We are passionate about volunteers, projects and communities and therefore have created a unique way of involving volunteers in projects within communities.
The Hotes Foundation
http://hotesfoundation.orgThe Hotes Foundation provides emergency relief by providing shelter, food and man power to disaster and poverty-stricken areas around the world, including: Pakistan, Peru, Mexico, Bangladesh, Philippines, Taiwan, Haiti, Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia. Our focus is simple: more volunteers with us, serving the poorest of the poor - changing “giving” to “going.”
WLS International
http://www.volunteerforasia.comWLS International is a British Volunteer Organization that offers rewarding and affordable volunteer programs in Asia. For over 10 years we have been organizing volunteering programs in Asia to thousands of international volunteers from all over the world. We are committed to promoting cross-cultural awareness and helping communities in developing countries in Asia.
