Virtual Volunteering and Virtual Internship Countries

Volunteer from anywhere as a Virtual Volunteer or Virtual Intern! Find a cause and location that speaks to you, with a selection of over 20 countries and 60 project areas ranging from children and education, global health, community development, and environmental sustainability.

You can make a difference and make connections with another culture even by volunteering online. All skill sets and levels welcome!

Contact us if you would like to discuss your virtual volunteering options with a Program Coordinator ahead of enrollment to learn about the missions and tasks of each placement. Once enrolled, we will match you with specific projects.

We can’t wait to get you started on helping drive our mission of connecting the world, one relationship at a time!

Africa

  • Education and Healthcare

Make long term positive change and create better opportunities for children from disadvantaged communities through sports, health, and education projects.

  • Children and Education 

Provide experiences to youth that will encourage intercultural understanding and foster peace in the world.

  • Community Development

  1. Build awareness for social issues affecting both local and international communities and encourage youth to become agents of change in their social environment.
  2. Support a non-profit organization that focuses specifically on women’s important role and their contributions to international peace and security initiatives. You’ll be working to promote leadership, professional development, and advocacy for human security approaches to peace and security issues.
Lekki Market in Nigeria
  • Global Health

Help a local non-profit in Nigeria to promote and communicate the importance of health and development in the youth through content creation for social media and campaign materials.

  • Community Development

Choose from multiple projects to support local NGOs in Nigeria that equips and develops the youth with necessary knowledge and skills, challenges injustice, and strengthens national development to cultivating and promoting intercultural learning and provide learning materials and training for those who are visually impaired. Tasks include marketing, writing funding proposals, developing crowdfunding campaigns, and more.

Photo: Annie Pratt
  • Environmental Sustainability

Work alongside an indigenous community-based organization in the fight against climate change to make a positive, sustainable impact in underprivileged communities. The work includes fundraising, research, developing study and training materials on plastic recycling, and more.

  • Community Development

Help increase youth welfare at a local and international scale by engaging the youth through activities. The organization works to establish a good relationship with at-risk youth to give them a future where they can become future leaders.

Asia

  • Education

Support local students in Japan by offering virtual English lessons to children, developing lesson plans, and creating promotional tools in English.

  • Children & Education

Work towards the education and rehabilitation of abandoned, destitute and estranged children. Help improve the quality of learning of children studying in government primary and secondary schools. Collaborate with the government, local communities, teachers, volunteers, and civil society members.

  • Community Development

Work with women and children in diverse villages to uplift their situations through innovative programming and projects to ensure peace and harmony in families and communities. You can also assist a local organization that promotes and protects the health and rights of the LGBT community in a Mumbai district. Volunteers can lend a helping hand in working on crowdfunding campaigns, partnership outreach, and more.

  • Education & Community Development

Support teachers in organizing and assisting class activities in polytechnics, or vocational, junior, and high schools around Indonesia. Virtual volunteers will be involved in connecting with students through interactive learning, coaching, discussions, and more. Here are some specific schools you have the option to volunteer with: aviation, foreign language, merchant marine, and a high school that aims to build a generation mastering science and technology, language, and entrepreneurship.

Volunteers can also choose to work with an organization working for peace, international understanding, and solidarity by improving the quality of education in Indonesia.

  • Education

Support local students in Laos by organizing activities and assisting the local teacher, assisting students with pronunciation, and creating didactic materials.

Street Dancing in Davao City
  • Community Development

Assist organizations in the Philippines that support the next generation and communities around them to succeed through development projects. Projects that address social issues surrounding education, health and gender sensitivity, environment, social entrepreneurship, women, youth, and children.

Central & South America

  • Community Development & Education

Assist a nonprofit in Colombia that provides English and Spanish learning services to vulnerable groups as a means to reduce inequalities. You’ll provide support in teaching English, language and cultural exchange, and marketing and communications.

  • Children and Education

Support at-risk children across the country, help break the cycle of poverty, assist in academic care programs, socio-emotional programming, parental training, and the integration of art and culture programs. Assist in programming focused on global and civic engagement within Costa Rica.

  • Community Development

Encourage and promote ethical behavior leading people to become ambassadors of change that contribute to social justice and sustainable development. Assist in three core areas: Education for Sustainable Development, Education for Peace and Human Rights. Support vulnerable populations, including children, adolescents, seniors, men, and women with addiction problems, homeless, and in situations of poverty.

  • Environmental Sustainability

Costa Rica is made up of over 25% national parks and reserves and the country serves serves as a strong and admired global model for environmental conservation. Support a range of environmental projects from protecting sea turtles, helping to stop deforestation, creating environmental education programs for communities, safeguarding rare butterflies, and more.

  • Healthcare

Support cancer patients and their families through offering holistic programming for diverse communities. Provide nutrition education and psychosocial support to at-risk children and youth. Assist in the development of specialized public health research.

Optional Quest Add-On

Spanish Language Immersion Course
Add one week (or more!) of an intensive Spanish language course and practice your conversational Spanish skills and practice discussing cultural topics. Volunteers will spend 2 hours a day studying Spanish with a certified language teacher. All documents and materials needed for the course will be provided as well as a certificate of completion.
  • 1 week Spanish Language Immersion Course: $120
  • Environmental Sustainability

Contribute to the research, protection, and conservation of the flora and fauna of the Amazon through scientific collaboration and environmental education programs for the conservation of biodiversity in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

  • Education 

Help build a community of children, young adults, and the elderly in the most vulnerable sectors of Ecuador through teaching and fundraising–really engaging with the people.

  • Community Development 

Be a part of an NGO’s organizational team that cultivates a community of talented youths to become the leading generation to bring about social change by engaging in collaborative, on-the-ground service with international communities in need.

Four Honduran farmers wearing cowboy hats sitting on a bench talking
Photo Credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ciat/8148116153
  • Community Development

Support local organizations that are building up communities around Honduras. Promote intercultural understanding and the importance of equality, justice, and peace among people or help train educators of all levels on entrepreneurial and life skills. You may also lend a helping hand to an organization bringing awareness to social issues through workshops for under-served families in vulnerable situations.

Besides that, you can also volunteer with a local non-profit in Honduras that promotes International voluntary service and intercultural learning programs to international volunteers and interns. Your task will be to support the team through marketing efforts, facilitate virtual training regarding social issues, and more.

  • Global Health

Support a non-profit, NGO that provides free, comprehensive rehabilitation services to patients with burn injuries who have been discharged from the hospital and need to start the process of physical, emotional, and spiritual rehabilitation in order to rejoin their family, social, and work life.

North America

  • Community Development
  1. Support a local initiative that celebrates and brightens up the lives of children, adults, senior citizens, and veterans affected by poverty, addiction, abuse, homelessness, violence, physical/mental challenges, old age, and loneliness in 32 states!
  2. Volunteer with an organization based in Texas with a mission to empower girls by teaching valuable skills to thrive and have confidence in their ability to make a difference! Girls in grades 3-12 will experience a self-efficacy curriculum, camps, conferences, all virtually.
  • Education and Environmental Sustainability

Support an international nonprofit organization that aims to inspire and empower youth to achieve urban sustainability through a gardening-based program.

  • Community Development

Volunteer with an organization that empowers youth to be agents of change. Assist in promoting intercultural skills and values by developing its international youth volunteer programs.

List of Countries and Virtual Volunteer Project Options

Environmental Sustainability

Africa

  • Sierra Leone

Central and South America

  • Costa Rica
  • Ecuador

North America

  • USA

Children and Education

Africa

  • Ghana

Asia

  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Japan
  • Laos

Central and South America

  • Colombia
  • Costa Rica
  • Ecuador

North America

  • USA

Community Development

Africa

  • Kenya
  • Nigeria
  • Tanzania

Asia

  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Philippines

Central and South America

  • Colombia
  • Costa Rica
  • Ecuador
  • Honduras

North America

  • Mexico
  • USA

Healthcare

Africa

  • Ghana
  • Nigeria

Central and South America

  • Costa Rica
  • Ecuador
  • Honduras

How to Get Started

1. Choose a Project

Decide where you want to volunteer, the type of work you want to do, and when you want to go. Not sure? Contact us! We’d love to help.

2. Enroll

Submit your online enrollment form and deposit to make it official and start your journey. We will match you with the best program based on your background, interests, and community need.

3. Get Ready!

Your Program Coordinator will complete an informational phone session with you, confirm your volunteer project placement, and support you every step of the way as you prepare.

Have questions? We’re here for you. We’d love to help.

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