Women’s Empowerment Volunteer Abroad

In many communities, women and girls still lack sufficient access to education, employment opportunities, and proper healthcare. Women’s empowerment and vocational training programs offer sustainable solutions, giving women the resources they need to gain social and economic independence. United Planet women’s empowerment volunteer abroad Quests allow volunteers to work one-on-one with women and children in shelters and counseling centers. Volunteers will spend time with the women to build strong relationships, learn and teach, and contribute to an environment in which women will help themselves out of unhealthy circumstances and direct their own lives.

Work with United Planet to live, share, and collaborate, and discover your common goals with women around the world.

Why volunteer with United Planet?

United Planet Quests are designed to be immersive, authentic, comprehensive and provide you everything you’ll need to succeed. The program elements allow you to engage fully with a new culture, forge strong relationships, and challenge yourself. Most importantly, we partner with the community to ensure your experience will be important, relevant and helpful to the community you serve.

We are a mission-focused, non-profit organization

We are all about service, making a difference, building a global community.

Our programs emphasize authenticity

Get outside your bubble, jump into a real experience, become a global citizen.

We provide everything you need to succeed

Classes, in-country travel, home stays, meals, work –we are your cultural bridge.

Your safety is our most important concern

From one-on-one assistance before you travel to experienced staff in country, everything is done to ensure your safety and wellbeing.

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Your Quest is personalized to provide the opportunity for genuine, meaningful personal growth.

What we do is meaningful

Your experience will be important, relevant and helpful to the community you serve.

Current Women’s Empowerment Volunteer Abroad Opportunities

Women's shelter in Peru

Women’s Shelter in Peru

Volunteers work at a home for teenage mothers and their children. The women work on-site, take classes, learn trades, and receive psychological counseling and healthcare. The goal is to break the cycle of violence by giving these women self-confidence and skills for better jobs. Possible tasks for volunteers include helping children with their homework, supporting mothers when needed, and organizing activities for mothers and children. Intermediate Spanish required. Learn more about children and education projects in Peru.

Volunteer working with children at women's shelter in Chile

Women’s Shelter in Chile

Volunteers work with the children of women who live at a women’s shelter in Santiago. Possible volunteer tasks include organizing games and activities for the children and helping with daily tasks around the shelter. Volunteers who choose this Quest will have minimal contact with the mothers who are living in the shelter. Basic Spanish required. Learn more about volunteering in Chile.

Volunteer with a child at the counseling center in Nepal

Counseling Center in Nepal

Volunteers work at a women-run counseling center for victims of abuse. They live at the center and help take care of the girls, giving them love and attention and helping them with homework. Experienced volunteers may have the option of assisting with community workshops to educate local communities about many topics, from parenting to the effects of abuse. Learn more about volunteering in Nepal.

Women refugees in Moldova

United Planet is seeking volunteers to support Ukrainian refugees, primarily women and children, in Chișinău, the capital of Moldova. United Planet volunteers will support local organizations in Moldova at the forefront of the refugee crisis. These organizations are providing life support and assisting with relocation and training. Learn more about the program in Moldova here.

Support Abused Women in India

In India, we work to support women who face various types of challenges or abuses, such as women who have been destituted, victims of domestic violence, women who have been victims of dowry harassment, women with alcoholic problems, women who have trouble with their spouse, in-laws and parents, and women who have been victims of rape and human trafficking, among other things. Learn more about the program in India here.

Empower Women in Honduras

Choose one of three projects in Honduras promoting the strengthening of autonomy, justice, the exercise of rights, citizenship and gender equality for women. providing non-formal education where girls and young women develop leadership and life skills through self-development, challenge and adventure. You can also work on reducing the inequality in Honduran society, promoting the political participation of Honduran women, creating strategies and taking initiatives for a more gender and economic equal society in Honduras, and working to reduce poverty and violence that particularly affects women. Learn more about the program in Honduras here.

This center is a truly an amazing organization that works on a subject that most people in the world do not acknowledge. I am overjoyed that this center exists – it tremendously benefits all of its young clients, whether they realize it right now or not. Almost all of the staff members that I have worked with exhibit extreme dedication and knowledge in this field.
– Madeline H., women’s empowerment volunteer in Nepal

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