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.

Sister Freda’s Foundation (SFF) provides hospital and clinic services, a nursing school as well as free community outreach health care clinics and in local slums, refugee camps and rural villages without access to health care. SFF provides a clinic for counseling for HIV/AIDS patients and they operate a daycare/feeding program. Sister Freda seeks volunteers with both medical and non-medical experience to work in the hospital and clinics and with the children.

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.

Rural Care Network (RUCNET) is committed to easy access to quality health care to rural communities. Currently, RUCNET has established the College of Integrative Medical Sciences (CIMS) to provide a bachelors of science to traditional healers. As a volunteer, you’ll apply your professional experience in teaching health care, naturopathic medicine, nutrition, public health awareness, and IT support at the college.

India

Coorg Organization of Rural Development (CORD) is committed to community development in the Southern part of Karnataka State in India. The organization is sensitive to the social segregation, economic exploitation and cultural alienation of the poor. As a volunteer, you will be immersed in the culture of the indigenous tribes with whom you work.

New Light is a secular nonprofit charitable trust that has a night-shelter to protect and educate young girls, children and women at high risk through safe shelters, educational opportunities, recreational facilities, health care and legal aid. You must be female to volunteer with New Light. As a volunteer, you have the potential to provide a variety of much needed services such as teaching, nursing, performance artistry and construction of a hospital.

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.

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.