Kenya

Barchando HIV/AIDS and Poverty Eradication Group is an HIV/AIDS awareness and education program that provides support for those living with and/or affected by the virus. Barchando develops infrastructure and social facilities that strive to create a healthy community. As a volunteer, you’ll work in a wide variety of social and health service programs.

Common Ground for Africa (CGA) has numerous and effective programs at work to mitigate poverty, the single largest threat to human well-being and social stability in Kenya. As a volunteer, you’ll have an incredible range of opportunities from working at Pathfinder Academy to promoting public health/clean water awareness at the ceramic water filter facility to working with women in business development and organic farming trainings.

Mama Na Dada Africa (MnD) empowers girls and women through education so they can gain social and financial independence and escape the prevalent consequences of gender discrimination. This is an immersion program opportunity that allows volunteers to participate in a wide range of diverse community enriching activities.

Namunyak Maasai Welfare (NMW) alleviates the harshest conditions for the most marginalized individuals in Maasai communities by creating access to education, public health practices, micro finance opportunities and organic farming training. Your volunteer experience will expose you to a variety of social services including primary education, working with special needs children, economic development with women and building and construction projects.

Ghana

Atorkor Development Foundation (ADF) is a community-based organization that seeks to transform Atorkor village into a self-sustaining community through economic development, adequate healthcare, well-equipped schools, a vocational center, and communication facilities for all. Volunteers will be able to work in all aspects of community life as well as be immersed in a cultural community where dancing and drumming instructions can be integrated into your time in Ghana.

Dzidefo Women’s Cooperative is a small textile cooperative that operates out of an orphanage in Ghana. As a volunteer, you’ll be able to apply your interest in sewing and design, and assist the women in business and marketing of their toddler clothing, home accessories and more.

Environmental Development Youth Movement (EDYM) conserves biodiversity and combats environmental degradation by mobilizing, educating and training local youth and others in sustainable agricultural practices and reforestation. As a volunteer, you’ll work with youth in environmental advocacy.

Kpando Pottery Fesi Shed is a women’s cooperative of 35 members, predominantly single mothers, that helps its members earn supplemental income for their families through the production and sales of pottery. As a volunteer, you’ll help this community program succeed by providing either artistic services such as pottery or non-artistic services like teaching English and business management skills.

India

Sri Mayapur Vikas Sangha (SMVS) educates, mobilizes and empowers the rural poor women and children of the Sri Mayapur region to achieve well-being based on sustainable livelihoods, social justice, economic growth and self-reliance. As a volunteer, you will provide a variety of social services such as teaching English, and providing child services at local schools.

Udyogini, meaning woman entrepreneur, is a program providing business development services for non-governmental organizations and poor women. As a volunteer, you will educate poor, mainly illiterate, women in areas of fundraising and marketing, micro-credit and micro-lending and financial analysis to improve their skills as producers and their knowledge of the markets they operate in.

Nepal

Sustainable Agriculture Development Program (SADP) is committed to enhancing the livelihood of resource-poor farmers through research, development, and the promotion of sustainable agricultural training and community development.