Disabilities

Countries: New Zealand
Duration: from 4 Weeks to 12 Months

Duration: from 2 Months

Projects Abroad offers placements in both Occupational Therapy and Speech Therapy. These projects provide volunteers with international work experience whilst caring for those who really need your help.

Countries: Cambodia
Duration: from 4 Weeks

Volunteer on our Projects Abroad Care placement in Cambodia and help make a difference to the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the country.

Countries: Peru
Duration: from 1 Weeks to 24 Months

Volunteer with Kiya Survivors, an Anglo-Peruvian charity which supports abused, abandoned and disabled children in Peru. Our well-established volunteer programme is the perfect opportunity for you to gain further experience working with children and young people with special needs while discovering a new culture and practicing your Spanish! In your free time, you'll also have the opportunity to explore this beautiful country through our optional organised excursions!

Countries: Sri Lanka
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 12 Weeks

Countries: Romania
Duration: from 1 Months to 3 Months

Volunteer with severely neglected yet delightfully loving children in Romanian orphanages and family homes. Live in the beautiful medieval city of Brasov, overlooked by dramatic mountains and Romania's largest ski resort.

Countries: India
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 12 Weeks

Countries: Romania
Duration: from 1 Months to 6 Months

Duration: from 2 Weeks

Volunteers on our Projects Abroad Physiotherapy placement provide support to patients and staff in the developing world. As a volunteer your responsibilities will include assisting local physiotherapists in hospitals that are often poorly funded and understaffed. It is likely that the patients you see will have conditions that are fairly advanced and rarely seen in the developed world.

Countries: China, Vietnam
Duration: from 4 Months to 5 Months

Attaining English language skills can open up huge opportunities for people many people around the world. As an English Teacher you will be able to share your valuable skills in kindergartens, primary schools, secondary schools, universities and other language institutes with people of all ages. While each country has its own approach to language learning, some will have a curriculum to follow while others will expect you to use your initiative. You’ll be greatly valued for your skills in conversational English. These may be used to lead your own class or provide support to an existing English Teacher. Varied aptitudes, ages, class sizes and resources mean you’ll have to think on your feet and occasionally improvise, but you’ll never have a dull moment in the classroom. 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: Vietnam
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 8 Weeks

£75 discount for volunteers who combine more than one PoD project! Enrich the loves of children in rural Vietnam by twaching English, playing games and getting involved in daily life at the orphanage. Experience rural Vietnamese culture.

Duration: from 2 Weeks

All over the world there are huge numbers of children and adults in need of care and attention. By volunteering on a Care placement with Projects Abroad you can help make an invaluable difference to these people’s lives. No previous experience or qualifications are needed, simply a passion to care for those less fortunate than yourself.

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: Malaysia
Duration: from 4 Weeks to 3 Months

Countries: Kenya

When people think of Mombasa they think of sun, sea, glorious white sandy beaches, safaris and wild animals and what a wonderful time they will have, but if only that could be what the local people would think of. Instead the people of the area are facing one of the deadliest diseases of our time and are having to cope with the many effects of HIV/AIDS.