Service Projects

• Elephant Sanctuaries: Save Asian and African Elephants
  Elephant sanctuary volunteer vacations: Promote elephant conservation by volunteering at sanctuaries to reverse the dramatic decline in population of African elephants, Asian elephants, and particularly Kenyan and Thai elephants
• Protect Wild Horses and Burros
  Wild Horses and Burros Volunteer Vacations: Sanctuaries and research efforts to save wild horses and burros need your help to make sure that these legendary animals continue to survive.
• Research and Protect Manatees
  Manatee Volunteer Vacations: Research and protect manatees on next vacation, with organizations such as EarthWatch, the Manatee Behavioral Ecology Program, Save the Manatee Club, and The Manatee Observation Center.
• Bird Migration: Help Track Migratory Birds
  Help migratory birds via bird migration vacations offered by the National Audubon Society, the Canadian Migration Monitoring Network, the North American Migration Count, Dungeness Bird Observatory, the International Shorebird Survey, and Nature Canada
• Animal Havens: Rehab Rescued Animals at Wildlife Sanctuaries
  Animal havens, animal sanctuaries, and wildlife refuges: Find out how to rehabilitate injured wildlife and rescued birds at an animal haven during a volunteer vacation
• Big Cat Rescue: Save Exotic Felines
  By spending your volunteer vacation at a big cat sanctuary, you can improve the lives of exotic big cats such as lions, tigers, cougars, and panthers.
• Save the Rhinoceros
  Help save rhinos from extinction during a volunteer vacation at SOS Rhino, Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary, the Black Rhino Research Programme in the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi National Park, or the Sweetwaters Black Rhino Reserve in Kenya.
• Whale Watching: Save Whales by Tracking Migration
  Via whale watching, find out how to save the whales by tracking migration during a whale watch volunteer vacation. Save whales by volunteering with Whale Watching Spoken Here, Earthwatch Institute, the Oceanic Society, and WhaleWatch.org.
• Save Chimpanzees from Extinction
  Volunteer vacations at chimpanzee sanctuaries to save chimps from extinction. Join chimpanzee and monkey conservation efforts in Africa, Europe, and the United States.
• Cultivate Team Sports and Sportsmanship
  Coach team sports and inspire sportsmanship during a volunteer vacation. Find opportunities to mentor team sports programs and act as role model for sportsmanship.
• Preserve Historic Trains and Railroads
  How to preserve historic trains and railroad track at railroad museums to save our railroad history of train transportation and travel. Find volunteer vacations via the National Railway Historical Society directory of chapters.
• Participate in an Archeology Dig or Restoration Project
  Volunteer at an Archeology Dig or Restoration Project. Join archeologists to search caves, excavate dinosaur fossils, or restore ancient structures. Learn more from Archaeolink and Archaeologyfieldwork.com
• Rescue Native American Indian Heritage
  Native American Indian volunteer vacations: By volunteering on a Native American Indian reservation, you'll not only share in American Indian customs, you'll also help to rescue our country's Native American Indian heritage as well.
• Help Park Services Preserve National Treasures
  National park services need volunteers to face the enormous challenges that threaten the ecosystems of our national treasures.
• Hiking Vacations: Preserve Hiking Trails
  Find hiking vacations, hiking trips, and trail building projects, and trail maintenance opportunities. Preserving hiking trails is essential to promoting environmental protection.
• Conduct Environmental Studies Research Projects
  Environmental Studies volunteer vacations are crucial in the effort to preserve animal and plant life as an increasing number of species are threatened or in danger of extinction.
• Protect Endangered Animals
  Protect endangered animals during a volunteer vacation. There are more than 1,000 endangered animals. Almost 500 threatened or endangered species live in the United States.
• Save Bottlenose Dolphins
  Save Bottlenose Dolphins during a volunteer vacation. Swim with dolphins at overseas projects for bottlenose dolphins, pink dolphins, and black dolphins.
• Save Sea Turtles and Sea Turtle Habitats
  Protect sea turtles on a volunteer vacation: Save sea turtle habitats and nests. Endangered and threatened sea turtle species include the loggerhead, Kemp's ridley, olive ridley, hawksbill, green, leatherback, and flatback.
• Save Vanishing Wetlands
  Save vanishing wetlands during a volunteer vacation. Preserve endangered species in wetlands such as floodplains, salt marshes, peat bogs, volcanic crater lakes, estuaries, deltas, and mangroves. Find out how to preserve wetlands.
• Turn Deforestation Into Reforestation
  Reforestation Volunteer Vacations: Turn deforestation into reforestation by saving natural forests from logging, clear-cutting and burning. Restore tropical rainforests and dry forests via volunteer reforestation projects.
• Save the Rainforest
  How to save the rainforest from destruction on a volunteer vacation. Volunteering opportunities to save rainforest biomes include the Amazon rainforest and other tropical rain forests.
• Volunteer At Summer Camp for Children with Special Needs
  Help children with special needs gain a sense of belonging... and build self-esteem that can last a lifetime. Volunteer as a counselor at a camp for children with special needs.
• Restore Coral Reefs
  Restore coral reefs during a volunteer vacation. Ocean reefs offer habitat for coral reef fish and provide life-saving drugs. Find ocean reef volunteering opportunities with Reef Ball Foundation, The Coral Cay Conservation, and The Earth Watch Institute
• Alleviate Suffering of Babies with AIDS and HIV
  Babies with AIDS and HIV: As a volunteer vacation, reduce transmission of HIV from AIDS-infected pregnant mothers to their newborn babies. Care for AIDS babies or counsel high-risk mothers on AIDS prevention.
• Share Art Appreciation with Children Abroad
  Art appreciation volunteer vacations: From simple arts and crafts projects to ambitious murals, you can teach the arts to children abroad.
• Volunteer as a Management Consultant
  As a volunteer management consultant, you can offer strategic consulting to an international development project in a third world community. Strategic business consultants can leave a lasting legacy during a volunteer vacation.
• Organic Farming: Help Promote Sustainable Agriculture
  Organic Farming: Promote sustainable agriculture at organic farms during a volunteer vacation. Find organic farming opportunities at International World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF), Help Exchange, Global Service Corp and Organic Volunteer.
• Build a School in a Developing Nation
  Build a school in a developing nation during a volunteer vacation: By constructing a school building, you'll help students to pull their families out of poverty.
• Help Orphans and Abandoned Children
  Volunteer Vacation: Help orphans, abandoned children, war-traumatized refugees, and street kids, who need the love and nurturing a parent would normally provide. Short-term projects at orphanages and peace camps.
• Volunteer For A Medical Mission
  Medical missions for doctors, dentists, optometrists, nurses, and other healthcare professionals. Join Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres), Health Volunteers Overseas, or International Medical Corps for a medical mission.
• Teach English Abroad
  Teach conversational English abroad during a volunteer vacation in some of the world's most exotic and remote villages in countries such as Ghana China Poland India Indonesia and Vietnam.
• Conserve Wildlife
  Wildlife conservation efforts exist to save endangered animals, to ensure we never see a world without polar bears, hippos and sharks. Help conserve endangered wildlife during a volunteer vacation.
• Build a Habitat for Humanity Home
  Habitat for Humanity and Habitat's Global Village Program offer rewarding volunteer vacations. Use this directory to find a Habitat for Humanity project in the US or internationally.
• Improve Community Services in Impoverished Areas
  Community Services: Construct community infrastructure -- such as orphanages, health clinics, and schools -- in impoverished communities. No construction experience necessary.
• Improve Children's Dental Health
  Children's dental health volunteer vacation opportunities: Volunteer dentists and hygienists are needed to improve children's dental care in third-world countries.
• Cultivate Music Appreciation Among Children
  Music Appreciation Volunteer Vacations: Teach music lessons and music appreciation to children in third-world countries. The gift of making music keeps giving long after you return.
• Help Deaf Children Experience Their World
  Volunteer vacations to help deaf children in developing countries become fully functioning members of society, via: i-to-i, Global Deaf Connection, Global Crossroads, and World Endeavors
• Inspire Autistic Children
  Autistic children lose their ability to connect and communicate with others. On a volunteer vacation, you can inspire autistic children at an autism treatment center or summer camp.
• Make Your Gap Year Meaningful
  Gap year volunteer vacation directory. Travel abroad or find American gap year jobs. During your gap year, make a meaningful difference.
• Take a Sabbatical... Make a Big Difference
  Take a Sabbatical... Make a big difference on a Volunteer Vacation of a Lifetime. Do something big with The Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, or other long-term volunteer vacation opportunities.
• Photojournalists: Use Photojournalism to Help Charities Tell Their Story
  Photojournalists: Use photojournalism to provide photographic documentation that many charities need to monitor and verify their work. As a photo journalist, you can create a photo journalism portfolio on a volunteer vacation.