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Featured Opportunities
- Become an American Leprosy Missions ambassador in your own community.
- Arlington Academy of Hope needs writers and fundraisers to help them help kids in Africa.
- St. Paul and Atlanta residents: Books for Africa needs your help sorting books!
- World Hope International has service opportunities in various African countries.
- Village Enterprise Fund has internships available in East Africa and the U.S.
- Translators and community outreach volunteers needed for Trees for the Future.
- South Africa Partners needs volunteers in Boston, MA to assist with local events.
- Interns are needed in Orphans of Rwanda’s Kigali office for three-month assignments.
Volunteer Opportunities
Our members are involved in a wide range of activities that touch the lives Africans throughout the continent. Most member organizations work at the grassroots level, empowering people to build a better future for their children, families, and communities.
Below you will find brief descriptions of positions, internships, and other opportunities for volunteers to work directly with our Aid for Africa members and the people they help.
To search for an opportunity by country, interest area or activity, please go to Find an Opportunity.
Africa Development Corps
We place two types of volunteers—Classic Volunteers, who fundraise for their positions, and Supported Volunteers, who are subsidized. Classic Volunteers work with indigenous organizations in Africa for 6- to12-month periods. Placements include a wide array of positions in education, microenterprise, agriculture, and public health education. Supported Volunteers fill a limited number of subsidized opportunities for highly skilled volunteers who work directly on our initiatives.
Aid for Africa
Aid for Africa has volunteer opportunities for individuals with a flair for writing in the areas of fundraising/grant development, story development, and social media. We also have opportunities in administrative support and fund raising. Work in our Maryland office or telecommute. Please contact us through the link below.
American Leprosy Missions
Become an American Leprosy Missions ambassador in your local community, or help us answer phones, prepare mailings, etc. in our Greenville, SC offices.
Arlington Academy of Hope
If you have time and a desire to help kids in Africa, Arlington Academy of Hope needs you. We have variety of opportunities including newsletter writing, communications, grant writing and fundraising and community outreach.
Books For Africa
Join us at our St. Paul, Minnesota, and Atlanta, Georgia warehouses! Volunteers sort and pack books. No heavy lifting is involved. Must be at least 12 years old.
Catalytic Communities
CatComm’s web platform are available in three languages – English, Portuguese, and Spanish – through the work of hundreds of volunteers, like you, around the world. If you are fluent in Portuguese or Spanish, you can help expand CatComm's global network of civic solutions and in the process make a huge contribution to the social change commons. Your efforts will help bring hundreds of civic solutions to your own neighborhood, town, city, and country, enabling social leaders to access the work of local communities throughout the world. Contact Roseli Franco, Community Liaison, at rose@catcomm.org to get started!
Children of Uganda
Work directly with the children in orphanages in Uganda or help raise awareness in your own community. Some internships available on occasion.
ChildVoice International
ChildVoice International’s work is driven by a team of passionate and talented volunteers. We take volunteers on short-term team trips to Uganda based on skills needed. We also provide 12-week internships in Uganda for students with at least one year of college. In the US we have opportunities at headquarters in Durham, New Hampshire, for a range of administrative activities.
Development in Gardening
Development in Gardening has opportunities in the countries where we work for volunteers with strong agriculture backgrounds and international experience. We also host a two-week volunteer trip annually to current project sites in Africa.
Doctors on Call for Service Foundation
Share your skills and up-to-date medical knowledge with your colleagues in Africa during a short-term Continuing Medical Education trip or through a long-term teaching commitment. Longer trips also available.
Foundation for International Medical Relief of Children
FIMRC accepts volunteers in Uganda and at headquarters in Philadelphia, PA. Volunteers in Uganda support the the clinic and community outreach programs. Volunteers work in the clinic and with local health groups on public health initiatives.
Generation Rwanda
We have openings for skilled individuals who have an interest in serving as volunteer interns in our Kigali office for a period of at least three months.
Ghanaian Mothers’ Hope
We take volunteers to Ghana to teach basic reading to children and health education to women and children during summer months. We also take volunteers for construction and repair projects. In the United States we need volunteers to collect and sort donated items and load containers for shipment to Ghana.
H2O for Life
H2O for Life has opportunities for volunteers at their offices in Minnesota, to assist at local events, write articles and blogs, and become ambassadors in their communities.
Health Alliance International
Some opportunities to help with administrative tasks in our Seattle, WA office. Some projects can be done remotely. Please fill out a volunteer form on our web site to express your interest.
Hope Through Health
Hope Through Health accepts qualified volunteers for a minimum stay of three months at one of our sites in Togo. Volunteers must meet French language fluency, health-related experience, and educational requirements.
Invisible Children
Invisible Children offers volunteer opportunities in their offices in San Diego, CA, on the road, and in the countries where they work.
Lubuto Library Project
Professional librarians and teachers can provide training, assistance in collection development, monitoring and evaluation systems. Performing arts or health/psychosocial counseling professionals also needed.
Medical Bridges
Enthusiastic volunteers needed in Houston, TX to help sort, pack, and/or donate medical supplies and equipment. We can accommodate groups up to 25. Physicians, nurses, and other medical professionals are invaluable helping to turn surplus into supplies.
Planet Aid
Organize a local clothes collection drive to raise funds for a project in Africa. Volunteers are also needed in our Columbia, MD, office to help sort and post donated books for sale on Amazon.com.
RefugePoint
Join the RefugePoint staff in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Apply for communications internships for a semester or full year.
Sanctuary of Moses Ministries, Inc.
- Sort and pack supplies in our Miami, Florida warehouse
- Web designer/marketer and social media volunteers needed
- Nurse, doctors and healthcare workers are needed for our upcoming medical mission to Benin
- Volunteer construction workers needed to help build facility on upcoming mission trip to Benin
Save Africa’s Children
On an average, volunteers and interns serve up to 15 hours per week. Your skills will be appreciated in areas of program administration, marketing, public relations, church relations, e-administration and special events.
Teach With Africa
We are looking for people who are passionate about improving education in Africa. Volunteer opportunities in the San Francisco Bay area include a range of administrative and fundraising activities and tutors.
We send US teachers to schools across South Africa. We look for experienced and credentialed high school teachers in math, science and English and who are supported by their schools and communities.
The Fistula Foundation
Become part of our Circle of Friends program. Plan and hold your own fundraising and informational events. Opportunities also occasionally available in our Santa Clara, CA office.
Tostan
Tostan is a volunteer-driven organization. Volunteers are posted for six months to two years in Tostan's national field offices in Senegal, Mali, Mauritania, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, or The Gambia and for at least 3 months in Washington, DC.
Trees for the Future
Help with events and editing and translating books and manuals. Help increase public awareness by talking with schools and other groups. Volunteers also needed to encourage their communities, churches, and civic groups to support tree planting projects.
Uganda Christian University Partners
Visit Uganda Christian University in Mukono, Uganda, to meet students, staff, and faculty and strengthen the ties between your local community and the Church of Uganda. Trips generally run in the summer.
Village Enterprise Fund
We offer two kinds of internships – Field Internships in Africa and US Office Internships. Work on projects that directly affect the people and communities with whom Village Enterprise Fund works in East Africa.
Wildlife Conservation Network
Volunteer opportunities in the San Francisco Bay Area include staffing events and assisting with mass mailings.
Women’s Microfinance Initiative
Women’s Microfinance Initiative offers internships in both Uganda and Bethesda, MD. Interns must be flexible and willing to work on a variety of projects, including working with village women and children and managing financial records.
World Bicycle Relief
Opportunities for internships and volunteering in our offices in Chicago, IL. Plan and hold your own fundraising events and join other efforts.
World Hope International
Hope Corps is a program that facilitates short-term (one week to one year) outreach opportunities for professionals (medics, technicians, teachers and businesspeople), college students, families and individuals. Service opportunities exist in various countries in Africa.