• Leverage Your Retirement for Global Impact

  • Teach What You Know and Love

  • Inspire and Mentor At-Risk Youth

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Explore a deep new purpose when you volunteer abroad. Join kindred spirits 55 and older in service significantly larger than yourself. Share your skills. Make new friends. Explore the world and make a difference.

You’ll be an important part of a team helping children, mothers, teachers and community leaders. Volunteer projects range from teaching conversational English and caring for at-risk infants and toddlers to repairing community buildings and providing health and hygiene education. And, your health and safety are our priority with comfortable tourist-class hotels and guest-houses, and three nutritious meals daily.

Examples of service opportunities worldwide:

Crete, Greece
Tanzania, Africa
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Siedlce, Poland
Lima, Peru
Querétaro, Mexico
Hanoi, Vietnam

Tax-deductible from
$2,595 to 2,795
All-inclusive land costs

Your help is needed and wanted wherever you serve, because we always work at the invitation of community partners, and under the direction of local leaders. This means  you’ll serve on full-day projects, five days a week.

Your service program contribution, airfare and visa are tax-deductible under this itinerary. But, that’s not all!  You’ll have plenty of free time in the evenings for community activities, and on weekends to explore local attractions. Open the door to new opportunities, and learn how significant your life experiences are in our partner communities.  Enlarge your perspective.  Engage the world for good!

“My ten trips with Global Volunteers have added whole new meaning and purpose to my life, in my retirement after 45 years as a graphic designer. Each one’s been totally worth every penny – plus all expenses are tax deductible! Previous experience is not necessary. I urge curious travelers to go.”

“I’ll never forget walking with my wife Jilonne down the streets and hearing “Gerald, Gerald,” and seeing a young man from one of our high school classes wave and run forward to ask me to come meet his grandmother, saying ‘these are the people who are helping me speak American.”  

“As a lifelong learner, I’ve been either a student, a teacher or both my entire life.  Since I retired from active employment several years ago, I have enjoyed the freedom to not only continue my roles as student and teacher but also to expand them in service to others.”

“Being a servant to others, giving my time and talents with no requirement for anything in return, was very rewarding.  Almost everyone I met in one way or another thanked me just for coming there.” 

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Fill the form below for more volunteer abroad information, or call: (800) 487-1074


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Global Volunteers is a U.S. based NGO in the central time zone (UTC -6). Because tax-deductibility, visa requirements, and language proficiencies vary, please choose the country you’re inquiring from to enable us to provide you the most appropriate information.



Thank you for your interest in a development partnership with Global Volunteers. We're unable to expand our programs at this time. As our website portrays, our current service programs center around providing the 12 Essential Services for our Reaching Children's Potential Program. But for future reference, please send any information to: partnershiprequest@globalvolunteers.org


As a private, non-profit organization independent from government and religious funding, Global Volunteers’ programs are financed almost entirely by volunteer contributions. This is important because our community partners cannot afford the “open market” costs of the services and materials we provide. Your tax-deductible service program contribution pays your expenses in the partner community. These include your food, lodging, work site transportation, program materials, team leadership, emergency evacuation insurance, and administrative costs. In addition, we provide supplemental financing to help meet our host’s many, on-going and special needs.


While English fluency does not disqualify you from participating on any of our programs, Global Volunteers is a U.S based NGO with your teammates, training materials and other communications being conduced primarily in English.

We’re unable to provide any assistance in obtaining your passport or visa. You'll need a passport to travel abroad and for some countries, you’ll need a visa.  Please keep this in mind when planning your travel schedule. If you live outside the U.S., you may have additional restrictions for participating on U.S. programs.

To provide you with information to match your specific interests, please tell us a little about you:




Many employers help cover part of the service program contribution. Providing this information can help us determine if this is available to you.



Our volunteer coordinators are available from 8:30AM to 4:30PM Central Time and will email you during that time on the next business day. If you prefer, you may chat now, or call 651-407-6100 if you’re inquiring during office hours.

Please choose up to 4 program locations and projects that interest you.
















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Global Volunteers
375 East Little Canada Road
St. Paul, MN 55117-1628 USA
(800) 487-1074 | toll-free
(651) 482-0915 | fax
globalvolunteers.org
email@globalvolunteers.org
Federal EIN: 36-3352680

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