Does anyone know of any volunteering programs, that fund you to go overseas?

Question

Does anyone know of any volunteering programs, that fund you to go overseas?

Answer 1

Job corps

Answer 2

the peace corps

Answer 3

Amigos de las Américas

http://www.amigoslink.org/

My friend is going and it sounds amazing!

"AMIGOS offers innovative programs and an exceptional history

For more than four decades, Amigos de las Américas (AMIGOS) has facilitated transformational community service involving more than 20,000 youth Volunteers and thousands of communities in Latin America. Through our programs, high school and college-aged Volunteers jump in with head, heart, and hands to contribute to health, education, and environmental service projects.

AMIGOS works to unite the Americas

AMIGOS projects are a collaborative effort between our participants, a vigorous network of Pan-American partner agencies, and the local knowledge and experience of our host communities.

AMIGOS values youth leadership and creativity

At the center of AMIGOS are the youth Volunteers who become catalysts, teachers, learners, and friends through the implementation of community service projects. These same Volunteers return to lead our programs in Latin America as Project Staff. AMIGOS is committed to being a youth-led organization in which creativity, initiative, and multicultural understanding are highly valued.

We would love to hear from you!"

Answer 4

Amigos de las Américas is NOT free. The minimum fee is $2500. This and other short-term placement agencies charge unskilled volunteers a fee, or require these volunteers to pay their own way (flights, in-country transportation, health insurance, accommodation, food, security, translators, training, staff to create the service opportunities and then to supervise and support the volunteers in their service, liaisons with the police and local officials, etc.). There' s nothing wrong with these organizations -- they are keeping money and resources focused on local people, as they should.

To get such trips funded, you need to work for the money, ask your friends and family to donate, and even look into getting a loan. Your community of faith *might* be willing to take up a special collection. But there are no organizations that fund such trips, as there are thousands of young people who want these feel-good-trips abroad, many of them probably in your same community.

Organizations that don't charge fees for placing volunteers in the developing world, such as VSO Canada, UN Volunteers and the PeaceCorps, are looking for people who can work (read, write and speak) in a language other than English, who have skills and experience that can lead to local people generating income, better feeding their families, improving children's health, etc., or that can lead to the transformation of key institutions, such as government, universities/schools or NGOs. They are looking for people who can commit to a two-year assignment, who have experience working with under-served communities, or who have a lot of experience in very diverse or religiously-conservative communities.

Here is a web site that can help you learn more about the skills and experience desired by long-term placement organizations such as PeaceCorps, VSO, UNV, etc, or organizations that don't charge volunteers but require volunteers to be highly-skilled, and how you can start to gain such experience locally, wherever you are now:

http://www.coyotecommunications.com/volu...

Answer 5

Yeah, the US Army.