Disadvantaged Youth

Countries: Ethiopia
Duration: from 2 Weeks

Snow-capped mountains and smiling faces. Multi-coloured lakes and world-renowned churches. Welcome to the real Ethiopia – a far cry from the parched and barren land it’s portrayed as on the news. This is a vibrant and exciting country, where the locals are waiting to welcome you. Projects Abroad volunteers work with orphanages, day care centres, kindergartens and care homes in and around Addis Ababa.

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: Kenya
Duration: from 2 Weeks

Volunteers on this Projects Abroad Care placement work with children in either an orphanage or care home. All care projects are located in Nakaru, 160km north-west of Nairobe. The HIV/AIDS epidemic has had a huge impact on Kenya and left thousands of children orphans. These children are desperate for attention, and this is where you can help as a volunteer.

Countries: Samoa
Duration: from 4 Weeks

With paradise beaches and crystal clear waters, Samoa has a lot to offer. Why not give something back? Volunteer on our Projects Abroad Care placement and provide disadvantaged children with much-needed love and attention.

Countries: Ecuador
Duration: from 3 Weeks to 12 Weeks

Countries: India
Duration: from 4 Weeks to 24 Weeks

You will work with a reputed not-for-profit organization working in the field of education and healthcare of slum children. The school for slum children not only needs volunteers to teach basic computer skills and formal subjects but also devise innovative methods to make learning fun for the kids.Helping these underpriviledged children to realize their true potential, can be one of the most rewarding experience of your Gap Year in India.

Countries: India
Duration: from 1 Months to 3 Months

Volunteering with Letz Live allows you a unique opportunity to immerse yourself in a culture unlike anything you have experienced before. As a Letz Live volunteer, you will live and work alongside locals and learn to understand their way of life. We don't believe you should pay a fortune for volunteer opportunities!

Countries: Morocco
Duration: from 7 Days to 12 Weeks

Volunteer in Morocco and submerse yourself in the souks and desert set against the superb film-set like backdrop of the peaks of the Atlas mountains. Volunteer work in Marrakesh offers exciting and varied volunteer experiences in and around the city from helping at orphanages to outdoor games in remote Berber villages.

Countries: Costa Rica
Duration: from 4 Weeks to 12 Weeks

Several care homes and centres have been set up in Costa Rica to help look after children who have been abandoned, neglected, abused or orphaned; your help is needed to give them a better education and standard of care...

Countries: Vietnam
Duration: from 2 Weeks

The Projects Abroad care placements in Vietnam are extremely worthwhile projects. They are based largely in orphanages, rehabilitation centres for disabled children or in kindergartens. These projects allow volunteers to make a real difference to the lives of children who need constant care and attention.

Countries: Bolivia
Duration: from 2 Weeks

Volunteer on our Projects Abroad Care placement in Bolivia and provide orphaned and neglected children with much needed love, care and affection.

Countries: South Africa
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 6 Weeks

Your mission on this project is to educate and support disadvantaged and vulnerable children, while helping to uplift the community not only through education, but also through health-care, building projects and sports. Being based in Cape Town, South Africa, voted as one of the top tourist destinations in the world you will have opportunities to enjoy the many restaurants, bars and markets the town has to offer, as well as many outdoor leisure activities.

Countries: India
Duration:

Set in the glorious state of Goa with its sandy beaches, sun and sea you will really getting into the heart of this place as you work with disadvantaged children from the slums areas helping to give them a better start in life. Living just a stone`s throw away from one of the best beaches in Goa too what more could you want!

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: India, Thailand
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 2 Weeks

Volunteering Solutions brings some exciting volunteering programs designed especially for people who don't have much time at their hand. The 2 week Specials are a perfect combination of meaningful volunteering and great traveling experience whereby you can volunteer on the weekdays and go on a weekend trip to some of the most popular tourist sites on the weekends on an organized tour.