AVIVA
PO Box 60573
Table View 7441
Cape Town
South Africa
Head Office: +27 21 557 4312
Fax: +27 86 634 2063
Duty Mobile: +27 83 554 2431
Email: info@aviva-sa.com
Web Site: www.aviva-sa.com
Volunteer in beautiful South Africa and choose from a wide range of well researched wildlife and community based projects. You can make a vital contribution to a world famous childrens home, help to introduce computer literacy and sports skills to rural Xhosa schools, assist the curator at the Eden Chimpanzee Sanctuary, explore Kruger Park and take part in a government backed community upliftment program, join the team at a Big 5 game reserve or choose from many other rewarding projects that are available throughout the year.
Many AVIVA projects include a range of exciting and informative tours of the Cape Town area with your volunteering experience, where you can enjoy the beautiful Western Cape as you are introduced to South Africa’s diverse cultures, people and history before or during your chosen project. For projects based elsewhere in South Africa, you also have the option of including a week in Cape Town before you join your project. AVIVA cover your in-country transfers, accommodation and even your meals on some projects. For a detailed list of included benefits for each project, please refer to individual project pages on the AVIVA web site.
AVIVA have gone to great lengths to ensure that your volunteering experience is both rewarding and immensely enjoyable. AVIVA take pride in the personal, friendly and professional service that we provide to you and you can be assured of excellent support throughout your stay.
BESO
British Executive Services Overseas
164 Vauxhall Bridge Road
London SW1V 2RB.
Tel: + 44 (0)20 7630 0644
Fax: 020 7630 0624
email: registrar@beso.org
web site: www.beso.org
Sends volunteers with lengthy experience of professional, financial, technical and managerial work to countries with developing economies. Duration varies from 2 weeks to 6 months. Travel, accommodation and living expenses provided.
Biosphere Expeditions
Sprat's Water
near Carlton Colville,
The Broads National Park
Suffolk NR33 8BP
UK
Tel: +44 (0)1502-583085
Fax: +44 (0)1502-587414
e-mail: info@biosphere-expeditions.org
Web site: www.biosphere-expeditions.org
Offers hands-on, non-profit conservation expeditions for everyone. Expeditions are open to all and there are no special skills or fitness required to join. There are also no age limits whatsoever. Places are available for anything from two weeks to several months and at least two-thirds of your expedition contribution will go directly into the conservation project. Projects work with local scientists and people from the host country, teams are small and support will be provided by an expedition leader from Biosphere Expeditions.
BTCV International Conservation Holidays
email:information@btcv.org.uk
website: www.btcv.org
Provide working holidays on conservation and environmental projects in Europe, North America, Asia, Africa and Australia. Fee chargeable between £100 - £900 inclusive of basic accommodation and food, depending on destination and duration. No special skills needed.
Challenges Worldwide
54 Manor Place
Edinburgh
EH3 7EH
Tel: +44 (0)845 2000 342
Fax: +44 (0)131 225 9454
email: Kirsty@challengesworldwide.com
web site: www.challengesworldwide.com
Challenges Worldwide organises projects for skilled, experienced and professional individuals looking to volunteer overseas. Challenges Worldwide engage with a wide network of host organisations overseas and work with them to identify their needs. These needs are addressed by volunteers recruited, prepared and trained in the UK.
Programmes last for 3-6 months and cover a multitude of different areas of work: capacity building, research, management training, financial planning, strategy writing and many more.
Challenges Worldwide match voluneers with suitable projects overseas taking into account their experience, availability and interests.
Locations:
Belize, Bangladesh, India, Sri-Lanka
Skill's Required:
Relevant work experience or relevant university study.
Concordia International Volunteering
19 North Street
Brighton
East Sussex
BN41 1DH
Tel: +44 (0) 1273 422218
Website: www.concordia-iye.org.uk
Concordia is a small not-for-profit charity whose aims are to bring people together from different countries to move towards the common goal of breaking down cultural stereotypes and promoting greater international understanding and peace.
Our International Volunteer Programme offers volunteers aged 18+ the opportunity to join international teams of volunteers working on short-term projects in over 60 countries worldwide. A selection of projects is available for teenagers aged 16 and 17. Types of international volunteer projects you can do include conservation, restoration, archaeology, construction, arts, children’s play-schemes and teaching.
Projects last for 2-4 weeks with the main season from June to September. Volunteers pay a registration fee of £110 and fund their own travel. Board and accommodation is free of charge.
Cross-Cultural Solutions
Tower Point 44
North Road
Brighton BN1 1YR
Tel: 0845 458 2781/2782
website: www.crossculturalsolutions.org
e-mail: infouk@crossculturalsolutions.org
Cross-Cultural Solutions' Volunteer Abroad and Intern Abroad programmes offer the chance to make a real difference in people's lives while experiencing another from the inside out. By participating in a Cross-Cultural Solutions programme, you will have the opportunity to work side-by-side with local people on sustainable community initiatives, participate in additional cultural learning activities, such as language lessons, field trips and lectures, and still have time for your own personal adventures. Programmes run from 2 to 12 weeks long and there are start dates year-round. CCS also offers a one week Insight Programme for those that are short on time. Cross-Cultural Solutions was established in 1995. It is a registered charity in the UK and sends thousands of volunteers overseas every year.
Global Vision International
Amwell Farmhouse
Normansland
Wheathampstead
St Albans
Herts AL4 8EJ
0870 608 8898
web site: www.gvi.co.uk
International Voluntary Service
web site: www.ivs-gb.org.uk
Short-term placements in international voluntary projects, welfare and manual projects for small teams of international volunteers in the UK, Eastern and Western Europe and the USA.
International Volunteer Program
web site: www.ivpsf.org
The International Volunteer Program provides 6-week volunteer placements in California, Costa Rica, Spain, and France. IVP volunteers work with non-profit organizations on a variety of projects in the areas of social justice, arts and culture, and the environment.
For an the administrative fee volunteers are provided with room and board during their stay, a meaningful and rewarding experience with an assignment that matches their skills and interests, health insurance, transportation associated with the program, placement support and training.
i-to-i
Woodside House
261 Low Lane
Leeds
LS18 5NY
UK
Tel: +44 (0) 870 333 2332
Fax: +44 (0) 113 242 2171
email: info@i-to-i.com
web: www.i-to-i.com
Run i-Ventures which are voluntary projects that last from 4 to 24 weeks in 19 countries around the world. Projects are open to everyone aged 17 to 70. You can choose between teaching English, conservation, media, health, building and care work projects.
Tackle Africa
UK based Charity that capitalises on the popularity of football in Africa to raise awareness and understanding among young people. Tackle Africa is currently looking for enthusiastic and adventurous volunteers to participate in our upcoming project in Uganda. The 6-week tour will run from mid-April through May, 2005. Working with local partners, the project will concentrate on events in 5 different districts across the Country.
Volunteers must be at least 18 years of age, have some football ability, be fit to travel, and willing to make a genuine contribution in the struggle against the spread of AIDS in Africa. The cost is £2,500 per person, which covers flights, meals, travel, accomodation, and visa's. For more information on this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity contact Tackle Africa at info@tackleafrica.org, or by visiting the website www.tackleafrica.org
UNA Exchange
Temple of Peace
Cathays Park
Cardiff CF10 3AP
Tel: +44(0)29 2022 3088
Fax: +44(0)29 2066 5557
e-mail: unaexchange@btinternet.com
web site: www.unaexchange.org/
Places volunteers on international projects in over 50 countries throughout the world. Groups of international volunteers work together with local volunteers on projects hosted by local community organisations. Volunteers can work on conservation, social, renovation and arts based projects, usually lasting between 2 -3 weeks. Food and accommodation are provided by the host organisation but volunteers pay travel expenses and project fees of between £90 and £140.
UNIPAL
BCM UNIPAL
London
WC1N 3XX
Tel/Fax: +44(0)20 8299 1132
web site: www.unipal.org.uk/
Recruits teaching volunteers, minimum age 20, to teach in Palestinian Refugee camps during the summer (July and August). Apply in January for interviews in March. Fee aprox. £375 covers flight, insurance & accommodation.
Volunteer Action for Peace
E-mail action@vap-uk.org
Website: www.vap-uk.org Volunteer Action for Peace is the UK branch of the international peace movement Youth Action for Peace. VAP is recruiting unskilled volunteers for over 1,000 international volunteer projects in more than 70 countries worldwide. These are normally 2-3 week 'workcamps', international group projects. Some longer term projects under the EVS scheme (2-12 months). Volunteers must normally be 18 years old (min. 15) with no upper age limit. Occasional language and upper age requirements. Volunteers pay a membership and registration fee of £150 to £180 and their transport costs. Hosting fees for projects in developing countries (up to US$220 for food and accommodation). Work in social projects, arts and cultural projects, ecology, environment, children projects, construction, renovation and study projects.
VolunteerAfrica
PO Box 24, Bakewell, Derbyshire DE45 1ZW, UK
Website: www.volunteerafrica.org
Voluntary projects in Tanzania, East Africa working with local people to build a community resource such as a school or a health centre. Placements are for 3 months. Full support structure both here in the UK and once overseas. Fundraising advice provided.
World Jewish Relief
Web site: www.worldjewishrelief.org.uk/
British Jewry's overseas humanitarian aid arm. Have an overseas volunteer project which sends university students and graduates on 3-6 month placements to support impoverished Jewish and non-Jewish communities in Argentina, China, South Africa and Eastern Europe. They deliver different sorts of aid (food, medicine, clothes, education/training, English teaching etc).
WORLDWIDE VOLUNTEERING FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
email: wwv@wwv.org.uk
Web: www.wwv.org.uk
Has a FREE search and match database of volunteering opportunities listing over 1700 organisations with around 1.5 million placements for all ages, worldwide and in the UK.
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