Building

Countries: Chile
Duration: from 4 Months to 8 Months

Get TEFL training, and learn spanish teach English as a foreign language for 4- 8 months from just £595.

Countries: Kenya
Duration: from 5 Weeks to 5 Weeks

Today 1 child dies from a water related disease every 21 seconds. The water and sanitation crisis claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns. Be part of the solution volunteer with Quest Overseas and help in the construction of a life changing sand dam providing 2-20 million litres of clean water.

Countries: Guyana, Panama
Duration: from 1 Weeks to 8 Weeks

Travel to a tropical Island off the Caribbean coast of Panama and experience a volunteer abroad project like no other! Help build up and support Native indigenous communities, live in a national park among wildlife, play on the beach and on the surf catching waves!

Countries: Swaziland
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 4 Weeks

Although Swaziland is one of the smallest African countries it has one of the highest rates of HIV/AIDS and unemployment thus having a devastating effect on its people – many families have been left with the eldest child to cope with the task of bringing up their siblings in many cases in inadequate shelters. Help this project as it strives to build decent shelters for these children to live in.

Countries: Costa Rica, Malaysia, Nicaragua, Tanzania
Duration: from 5 Weeks to 10 Weeks

Raleigh International offers bursaries worth up to £2,000 for its 5, 7 and 10 week expeditions to Borneo, Tanzania and Costa Rica & Nicaragua. Find out more about the Raleigh Bursary Award.

Countries: Philippines
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 12 Weeks

Philippines is all about adventure. It is one of the most diverse, exciting countries in the world, with friendly people, interesting food and spectacular surroundings. However many poor communities struggle with poverty and substandard healthcare. With Kaya’s community projects you can have a lasting effect on the health and wellbeing of disadvantaged Filipinos.

Countries: Fiji
Duration: from 3 Months to 7 Months

Few placements offer such a culturally rich experience. Volunteers become immersed in the traditional Fijian way of life while contributing to the local community. It will suit people who are proactive, outgoing and willing to think outside the box. The work can be challenging, the accommodation is basic and the food is quite alternative! However the whole experience is guaranteed to be truly exhilarating and enormously rewarding. Community placements in Fiji involve volunteers working in a variety of placements such rural district schools, kindergartens, centres for children with various disabilities and also assisting a local community to build a school for their children and conservation within a national park. All applicants are matched to placements to ensure that there is a good fit between the volunteer and their host communities. Lattitude Global Volunteering is an international youth development charity that has been sending volunteers on challenging structured and exciting voluntary placements around the world for 40 years.

Countries: Guatemala
Duration: from 2 Weeks

Help to change the lives of entire communities building homes in Guatemala. You can help to provide impoverished locals with safe and secure accommodation that will give them a better standard of life.

Countries: Costa Rica
Duration: from 4 Weeks

Explore Costa Rica’s most incredible sights and get first-hand experience of local life! Take in everything from the Arenal Volcano to the idyllic Bocas del Toro islands and get ready for a truly Costa Rican adventure...

Countries: Thailand
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 12 Weeks

Have the chance to really flex your muscles and put them to good use on this building project in the heart of Thailand knowing that at the end of it you will have been part of making a dream come true for 40 children when they move into their new home!

Countries: Zimbabwe
Duration: from 1 Weeks to 4 Weeks

Come and enjoy working alongside a community, helping them to develop their own project, a preschool that caters for the orphaned and vulnerable of that community and a skills development centre to empower their caregivers. Teach the children, work with the caregivers, help us build mushroom projects and dig veggie gardens. Become a part of a vibrant community and learn how they live on the smell of an oil rag but live a full life. We also offer you the option of extending your stay and moving to our partner, Imire, where you can enjoy time on a conservation project working with rhinos and elephants at a professional, world class site.

Countries: South Africa
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 12 Weeks

Change the lives of people in a rural community through teaching, building projects and sustainability initiatives while living in the heart of a Big 5 game reserve! You'll also get plenty of time to go on game drives and see some of Africa's famous wildlife.

Countries: Colombia
Duration: from 1 Weeks to 6 Months

International Volunteer HQ (IVHQ), the world's most affordable international volunteer organisation, offers a range of volunteer projects in Colombia, including Teaching, Childcare, Elderly Care, Feed the Homeless and Construction and Renovation.

Countries: Zimbabwe
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 8 Weeks

Come and volunteer in the beautiful town of Victoria Falls and gain a unique insight into local Zimbabwean culture while making a positive impact in the lives of this spirited community!

Countries: Kenya
Duration: from 1 Months to 1 Months