As a leader in the field of international volunteer travel for over 18 years, we know that the best approach to international volunteering—the only approach—is one designed by the community. In every community in which we work, we have long-standing relat ...
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Fund for Education Abroad awards are intended to support students planning to participate in high-quality, rigorous education abroad programs in the academic year or summer.
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The Placement Office maintains a registry of teachers interested in international opportunities, the International Teacher Placement Service. Throughout the year, overseas schools contact the Placement Office looking for appropriately qualified teachers; ...
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The Global Sustainability Fellows Program seeks to inspire, inform, mobilize, and prepare future generations of international leaders in all sectors of society by imparting the core competencies required to effectively tackle urgent sustainability challen ...
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The purpose of the fellowship program is to encourage graduate research in grain-based food science and technology.
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AIFS and the National Association For Equal Opportunity in Higher Education are working together to provide scholarships for outstanding students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to study abroad with AIFS.
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Diversity Abroad, in cooperation with the AIFS Foundation, will offer five scholarships for each fall and spring semester.
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This need-based scholarship is available for students with a cultural and ancestral connection to the country in which they plan to study abroad with SFS.
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For 18 years Outreach International has been working with small, community-led projects in some of the most engaging communities. Our local connections enable us to uniquely identify roles for volunteers who wish to live and work among a community. Our pe ...
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Experiential Learning International (ELI) partners with local organizations to provide international volunteer placements in various fields including social work, education, conservation and health care. Placements include positions in schools, orphanages ...
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At Eurocentres Berlin, we offer a wide range of different courses from group classes to one-to-one lessons, preparatory courses for all Goethe Exams and the TestDaF, specialised courses for teaching or business German and many more. Additionally, Eurocent ...
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The Peace Corps provides Volunteers for nearly 70 countries that request assistance in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Central and South America, Europe, the Pacific Islands, and the Middle East. Since 1961, more than 215,000 Americans of all ages have serve ...
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Volunteers shadow local and foreign health professionals as they provide pro-bono consultations and medications to patients in rural communities. Volunteers assist with in-take, triage, medication packing, and health education.
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Caledonia Languages Abroad has flexible programmes that run all year round, with language courses from as short as one week at language schools throughout the world. Their tutors are specially qualified to teach their language as a foreign language and us ...
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Global Routes' High School Programs allow students to become fully immersed in a foreign culture while gaining valuable volunteer and service experience. Whether volunteers are teaching English in Asia, building a community center in South America or a sc ...
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For students attending the Puntarenas program.
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Natucate’s primary concern is to offer projects and programmes which fully comply with our corporate philosophy, in particular regarding high sustainability standards. Unfortunately, words like "sustainability" as well as "charitable" or "meaningful" are ...
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VentureCo specializes in gap year and career break adventures; all of the programmes are about working within a group, helping developing communities and exploring off the beaten track. VentureCo provides travel with a purpose in the company of like-minde ...
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In memory of Hiliary Echo Douglas, a study abroad advocate, beloved daughter, wife, mother, and colleague.
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Awarded to one female student who demonstrates international awareness and a desire to create a more peaceful world through international exchange.
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