Sample Opportunities

Central/South America

• Work for social justice involving men, women, street children, workers rights, prisoners
• Learn Spanish and work on your surfing abilities at the same time
• Live on a woman’s coop that grows and sells medicinal plants and herbs
• Learn Portuguese in Rio while working with children from all walks of life to prepare for Carnival
• Ride with the gauchos on a sports ranch

North America

• Train to be a wilderness guide
• Volunteer at a yoga retreat
• Intern with a theatrical troupe using your performing skills while helping with maintenance and cooking
• Learn to explore your artistic abilities while creating your own short films
• Work at a zoo helping with dolphins
• Intern with a newspaper, government agency, restaurant, health care setting, dance studio

Africa

• Experience a film making course and produce real wildlife footage as you develop your career as a wildlife filmmaker.
• Work with sharks, penguins, big game, lion cubs and dolphins
• Volunteer, observe and assist resident doctors and nurses in HIV Clinics, urban and rural areas
• Help at a safari game lodge
• Learn by exercising, schooling and involving yourself in the rehabilitation of abused horses
• Choose from projects involved with poverty, grassroots development and micro-financing

Worldwide

• Take courses in wilderness medicine, back country skiing and avalanche recovery
• Get involved with community and social issues with Native Americans, refugees, indigenous people, women and street children
• Teach kids, coach sports, learn to dance, set up a health clinic or work on local environmental projects
• Crew on a tall ship where some of the crew are physically challenged
• Take part in a project that combines architecture with ecology

Asia

• Apprentice with a sitar player
• Study Eastern medicine on the border of Tibet
• Live with Buddhists, Hindi and Sikhs while you learn about their religions, traditions and take part in community service
• Trek the Himalayas
• Work with local NGO’s providing irrigation, health care, agriculture training, micro-credit and small business generation.

Europe

• Restore medieval hamlets and castles
• Help one of the oldest ethnic groups in Europe care for rare species of horses, sheep, goats and dogs
• to keep them from going extinct
• Work in an orphanage in Eastern Europe
• Learn to become a ski instructor in the Alps
• Research ways to reclaim arid soil to alleviate poverty and hunger of desert communities
• Become a shepherd and beekeeper
• Study fashion, cooking, photography, art history, ceramics,
• Intern in the arts, politics, media, marketing or finance

Pacific

• Join a research team as you explore the coastal waterways of the Indo-Pacific that support the highest diversity of tropical marine life found anywhere on Earth
• Experience how the Balinese live and how family life and religious customs are woven into the creation of art as you learn mask carving, Balinese dance and shadow puppetry
• Take part in a unique and comprehensive examination of island ecosystems, their diverse island cultures and the challenges they face today
• Learn to scuba and work with a team of coral reef researchers
• Gather valuable certifications necessary to teach sailing or to find a job in the industry
• Work in a film production studio