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Volunteer Abroad / Featured Projects

Check out our featured volunteer projects below. These projects are recommended by our staff and former volunteers as highly impactful and rewarding - some are our most popular projects to date. Volunteer at a health clinic, work on a chocolate farm, or educate women about microfinance – all in all, these projects make a sustainable difference to the communities we serve while providing invaluable experience for every volunteer.

Peru

  • Hands-on Healthcare in Peru
    Experience Community-Guided Healthcare

    Description and Impact

    Meet local health care professionals.  Learn basic Spanish medical terminology.  See...

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  • Give the Gift of Clean Water
    Give the Gift of Clean Water

    Description and Impact

    Every year, diarrheal diseases caused by unsafe water are responsible for roughly 1.8 million...

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Costa Rica

  • Organic Farming, Cheese Production and Animal Care in Rural Costa Rica
    Help Sustainable Farmers Secure their Future

    Description and Impact

    ProWorld’s partner is a cooperative started by 12 families, which supports community development for a village surrounded by a vast...
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  • Help Children at the Local Orphanage
    Make a Difference to Abandoned Children

    Description and Impact

    Orphanages in San Jose provide child support to orphans and abandoned children, providing lodging, meals and recreational activities. The...
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India

  • Assist in Special Education at Local Schools
    Help Special Needs Children Succeed

    Description and Impact

    There are some families in India that consider the birth of a mentally challenged child a curse....

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Mexico

  • Go Down in History
    Help preserve indigenous and Mestizo art and history

    Description and Impact

    This ProWorld program partners with an organization of eighteen indigenous and mestizo (people of...

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Nepal

  • Volunteer in Local Hospitals in Kathmandu

    Description and Impact

    In Nepal, the health-care problems are varied and enormous.  Being one of the poorest countries in the world, the majority of people live...

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  • Teach English to Tibetan Refugees and Minorities
    Give At-Risk Minorites a Chance for a Better Future

    Description and Impact

    The Tibetan minorities in Nepal face numerous obstacles in their daily lives, ranging from...

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Belize

  • A Heavenly Trifecta: Travel, Chocolate, and Conservation
    Work on a Rural Organic Chocolate Farm Manufacturing Facility

    Description and Impact

    Due to globalization, cocoa production is becoming increasingly outsourced throughout the world. In Belize particularly, a handful of farms and...

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  • Make a difference for People with Disabilities

    Description and Impact

    If you are interested in a career in special education or physical therapy, this could be the...

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Ecuador

  • Community Development on the Galapagos Islands
    Help Weed out Invasive Species in the Galapagos

    Description and Impact

    As a result of the lack of fruit and vegetable production on the Galapagos Islands, boats from...

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Thailand

  • Don’t Forget the Elephants

    Description and Impact

    One of Thailand’s iconic animals, elephants needs lots of room to roam.  Unsustainable tourism has created widespread...

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South Africa

  • Promote Education through Capoeira and Dance
    Promote Cooperation and Empowerment through Martial Arts

    Life in Cape Town townships is especially hard for children who are exposed to gang violence and substance abuse every day. 

    ProWorld South Africa and our local...
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Philippines

  • Be a Much Needed Extra Pair of Hands
    Provide Healthcare to Rural Communities

    Thousands of people living just outside the city of Talcoban lack access to the same quality of health services available in the city. Rural health clinics remain extremely...

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Panama

  • Help the Wetlands: Manatee and Turtle Conservation

    San San Pond Sack wetland is located on the Caribbean coast of Panama, 3 miles north of Changuinola in the northwestern part of the Bocas province, bordering the Sixaola River...

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Morocco

  • Building Bridges: Mentoring Moroccan Youth
    Strengthen Relationships between Moroccan and American Youth

    As the world becomes more and more interconnected, cross-cultural communication becomes more essential to bridge divides, especially between United States and predominantly...

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Brazil

  • Caring for Exotic Species

    Description and Impact

    Brazil is home to 60% of the Amazon rainforest and is considered to have the greatest biodiversity of any country on earth. However,...

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Top 5 Featured Projects

  • Work with Elephants in Thailand
  • Help Endangered Species in Brazil
  • Teach English in Nepal
  • Give the Gift of Clean Water in Peru
  • Community Development in the Galapagos
  • 29,000
    Trees Planted
  • 14
    Countries
  • 5,100
    ProWorld Volunteers
  • 22
    Schools Constructed
  • 6,100
    Stoves Installed
  • 18,450
    Patients Treated
  • 4
    Centers Built
  • $7,100,000
    Capital Injected
  • 860,000
    Service Hours

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1.877.429.6753 (toll free)
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