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Rough Guides: Travel Guide Books

A trusted favourite of world travellers for over 25 years, Rough Guides have always been counted on to tell it like it is. Covering cities, regions, countries and continents for travellers on all budgets, each Rough Guide offers detailed practical informa ...
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Not Just Tourists: Gift a suitcase of medical supplies

Not Just Tourists is a grassroots organization that helps ordinary travelers gift remote clinics around the world with much needed medical supplies. Any traveler destined for a developing country can carry our suitcases of donated medical supplies provide ...
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IDRC offers this Fellowship (a bequest from Helen S. Bentley and C. Fred Bentley) every two years in October to a Canadian, permanent resident of Canada, or a citizen of a developing country. You must be a graduate student with a university degree in agri ...
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Emory College, Oxford College, and the Goizueta Business School offer partial to full merit-based scholarships and membership in Scholars Programs to incoming first-year students. The purpose of these highly selective Scholars Programs is to provide finan ...
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Each summer the Inter-American Development Bank hires undergraduate students for a period of two to three months. During their employment, the students are placed in one of the departments or units of the Bank and are assigned primarily clerical and admin ...
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Awarded to University of Alberta students to assist with the costs of travel for a formal international academic exchange program.
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With a history stretching back over 250 years, St George's, University of London is a highly respected institution within the world of medicine, and the ideal launchpad for your medical career. We offer innovative programs such as our 4-year International ...
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Visions in Action offers six and twelve month fee-based Classic Volunteer Programs, as well as short-term summer programs, in Mexico, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda. The Classic Volunteer Programme supports the work of local NGOs in a wide variety of s ...
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Volunteers for International Partnership (VIP) offers volunteer opportunities for individuals or groups to do international community service in health, social services, environment and education. Work with a rural development project, volunteer in a heal ...
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TripSchool teaches you the skills to start working as a tour director around the world, or a tour guide closer to home. Our tour director certification classes are intense and immersive, and our small-group workshop format puts you through the ringer and ...
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Crewbay is a free online crewing platform. It allows crew from all levels to find boats that require crew. With well over 150 boats registering monthly, we're confident there's something for you. Find Crew, Find Boats, Find Crewbay!
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The Mexico Summer Project brings together young people from different countries for seven weeks of intercultural exchange, service work, and reflective learning among the indigenous communities of rural Mexico. Projects include a sustainable development p ...
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Every Language, Every Culture, Everywhere, AmeriSpan Programs include Language immersion, Volunteer and Internship programs, College Study Abroad, SALUD Medical Spanish and Portuguese, Professional Development, Programs for Educators, Teenager Summer Abro ...
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Kaya is dedicated to making a world of difference through responsible traveling. We promote sustainable social, environmental, and economic development in communities by offering over 150 ethical volunteer, internship, and cultural immersion programs base ...
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Point Foundation (Point) is the nation’s largest higher education scholarship-granting organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) students. Point’s multifaceted support of its scholarship recipients (“scholars”) extends far be ...
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UNESCO offers a broad range of work opportunities. Posts in the Organization are mainly filled by people in occupations linked to the Organization
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The Diversity Abroad Network “Diversity Network” will offer summer scholarships for full-time undergraduate students attending a member institution in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom or the United States.
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Located in the scenic and culturally diverse San Francisco Bay Area, California State University, East Bay offers both short-term university study (for a semester, a summer, or a year) and bachelor’s and master’s degrees in 100 fields of study. Students w ...
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