Amizade - empowers indviduals and communities through worldwide service and learning.
CharityGuide: Offers traditional volunteer opportunities in the health and mental health fields - available in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
Cross Cultural Solutions: Offers many different types of volunteer opportunities in the health care field in China, Ghana, India, Russia and Peru.
Doctors Without Borders: Provides volunteer opportunities, both medical and non-medical, throughout the world.
Family Medicine Interest Group - Listing of international volunteer opportunities for students from medical and nursing fields.
Global Service Corps - international volunteer community service since 1993
Global Volunteer Network - offers volunteer service opportunities in community projects through partner organizations in 21 countries.
Hope Worldwide: Allows users to fill out and submit an interest form, then matches specific volunteer opportunities all over the world.
Humana People to People: Provides volunteer opportunities in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia in preventive health care, child aid, HIV/AIDS prevention and refugee and relief aid.
The Institute for International Cooperation and Development: Provides volunteer projects around the world - opportunities available in AIDS awareness and family health programs.
International Center for Equal Healthcare Access (ICEHA): A network of physicians and nurses who volunteer technical assistance on HIV care and infectious diseases to clinics in developing countries.
International Medical Volunteers Association - promotes, facilitates, and supports voluntary medical activity through education and information exchange
Medico - medical, eye and dental care in Central America
Nurses with a Purpose - delivers nursing services and health care where crisis and disaster exists throughout the world, regardless of race, religion, politics or sex.
Operation Smile - make a difference in the lives of children everyday
Overseas Jobs: Allows nurses to search for opportunities around the world - use search word: volunteer.
Peace Corps: Provides information and volunteer opportunities in the health care field around the world.
Servenet: Allows user to search by zip code to find projects or get information about medical opportunities around the world.
South American Explorers Volunteer Opportunities - volunteer possibilities with local and U.S.-based non-governmental organizations
Volunteer International - an alliance of non-governmental organizations involved in international volunteer work and internship exchanges.
Volunteers in Technical Assistance: Provides health and medicine volunteer opportunities around the world.
General Opportunities for Volunteering
EarthWatch: Offers volunteer opportunities around the world - use search word: volunteer.
GiveSpot International Volunteers: Provides links to charity organizations; international, national and local volunteer opportunities; and international aid.
Global Citizens Network: Provides information on volunteer opportunities in Nepal, Guatemala and Kenya - users may choose a project by site or date.
Habitat for Humanity International: Offers volunteer opportunities building houses in the United States.
Idealist Volunteer Opportunities: Allows user to sort volunteer opportunities by country, area of focus, skills needed, age or language.
Impact Online Directory: Allows user to search by zip code to find volunteer opportunities and get involved in the community.
International Volunteer Projects: Provides volunteer opportunities in construction/renovation, nature conservation, cultural/social and archeological areas.
One Small Planet: Worldwide Travel and Adventures International Work, Study, Volunteer, Travel Resources - Offers information about living abroad and several opportunities to volunteer all over the world.
Peace Brigades International: Provides information about projects that relate to human rights and nonviolence all over the world.
Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA): Offers opportunities to work with community-based agencies to help find long-term solutions to the problems caused by urban and rural poverty.
Working Abroad: Provides user with form to fill out that is matched with personalized volunteer opportunities.
Informative Sites
EscapeArtist.com: Provides information about living overseas, investing overseas, expatriate magazines, global references and volunteer opportunities - use search word: volunteer.
Expat Forum: Provides information about the cost of living, using the telephone abroad, time differences and other useful tips for overseas travel.
Living Abroad: Offers information about relocating abroad - country profiles available to order.
SCI International Voluntary Service: Provides a directory of international volunteer organizations and information about international workcamps.
Volunteer Abroad: Provides information about living abroad and a search engine to find volunteer opportunities of interest.
Sigma Theta Tau International provides these links as a service to its members and the nursing community. The society does not endorse the groups listed or otherwise recommend their specific activities.