Volunteer Opportunities in Healthcare

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.

Global Service Corps: Runs short-term and long-term volunteer programs in Tanzania and Thailand that focus on health -- including HIV/AIDS presentation education -- English language education, and the environment.

Global Volunteers: Offers projects all over the world, including opportunities in child services for children with physical or mental disabilities and general health care.

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.

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 Volunteer Programs Association: Allows users to choose a volunteer opportunity by world region, country, type of work and/or project duration - opportunities available in nursing, health care and health education.

The Institute for International Cooperation and Development: Provides volunteer projects around the world - opportunities available in AIDS awareness and family health programs.

Muscular Dystrophy Association: Seeking medical volunteers to staff a week long (June 2007) summer camp for children and adolescents.

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.

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.