Disadvantaged Children

Countries: Peru
Duration: from 1.00 Weeks to 24.00 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: Zimbabwe
Duration: from 1.00 Weeks to 4.00 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: India
Duration: from 1.00 Months to 3.00 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!

Duration: from 2.00 Weeks to 0.00

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: Cambodia
Duration: from 4.00 Weeks to 0.00

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: Senegal
Duration: from 2.00 Weeks to 0.00

Projects Abroad has just launched a pioneering new Micro-finance project in Senegal. The aim of this project is to help the street children of St Louis build a sustainable future for themselves through small scale entrepreneurship.

Countries: India
Duration: from 0.00 to 0.00

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: South Africa

Community placements in South Africa are based in Outdoor Education camps that welcome children from disadvantaged backgrounds at certain times of the year. In July and December these camps run Under Privileged Camps (UPCs) free of charge for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, such as street children, AIDS orphans and abuse sufferers. Although your role will predominantly focus on leading outdoor activities such as hiking, rafting and abseiling, extra care will have to be taken to look after the specific needs of these young people. 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: Kenya
Duration: from 4.00 Weeks to 8.00 Weeks

Think of rural Kenya and you will think of the Maasai tribe, a nomadic tribe who do not believe in land ownership yet being influenced by the ever expanding western world. This teaching project strives to form a balance between the Maasai culture and education for the young where you will play your role in helping the empowerment and protection of the Maasai.

Countries: Argentina
Duration: from 2.00 Weeks to 0.00

Volunteer on a Projects Abroad Care placement in Argentina and provide neglected and mistreated children with much needed love, care and affection

Countries: Argentina
Duration: from 2.00 Weeks to 12.00 Weeks

Countries: Costa Rica
Duration: from 4.00 Weeks to 0.00

Our Projects Abroad Care placement in Costa Rica is perfect for enthusiastic and compassionate volunteers who have a passion for working with children and a desire to experience this fascinating country.

Countries: Romania
Duration: from 1.00 Months to 3.00 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: Malaysia
Duration: from 4.00 Weeks to 3.00 Months

Countries: South Africa

Few countries have changed politically as much as South Africa in recent years. It is a diverse and beautiful country, from the Kruger National Park to the stunning Kalahari Desert. Volunteers can opt to work as Teachers in private or state schools where their roles involve improving education levels of students with varying aptitudes and needs. Alternatively, other volunteers in South Africa work in the great outdoors as Outdoor Activities Instructors or as Caring Assistants in orphanages or schools for children with disabilities. Summer volunteers depart in July and spend 2.5 months living an volunteering in South Africa.