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Student Volunteer Opportunities Abroad

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Best Inexpensive Student Volunteer Opportunities Abroad

Are you a student looking forward to achieve something special and different? Do you want to spend your time traveling to a new country and learning new sets of skills for your future prospects?

Well, you are in the right place! IFRE has some of the best inexpensive student volunteer opportunities abroad for students. You can choose from various options depending upon your passion, and interest.

IFRE has a diverse range of student volunteer abroad programs spanning across 18 popular countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

There is so much to do, as you will find unique opportunities to volunteer in HIV/AIDS projects, organic farming, health projects, teaching monks, sea turtle projects, and elephant conservation.

This is a great chance of exploring a new and exciting country while you lend a helping hand to people who live under extreme poverty and face hardships every day.

Your selfless efforts will give them a fair chance to improve their conditions and lead a better life with more confidence and freedom.

Alexandra Miller

These last six weeks of volunteering have been a truly amazing and life-changing & very wonderful experience for me.

Alexandra Miller

- USA

Leslie Slade

I had an excellent time, better than I ever could have imagined. Other volunteers were so nice and willing to help.

Leslie Slade

- Vermont, USA

Don Maddocks

I had a wonderful experience. I had the opportunity to teach children of all different ages.I am sad to leave!

Don Maddocks

- USA

Manko Blakely

My volunteer experience with IFRE has been unforgettable. It has opened my mind & heart. Staffs were very helpful.

Manko Blakely

- Germany

Benefits of students volunteer opportunities abroad

Student volunteer abroad programs always have a variety of benefits that are directed towards creating a positive impact in the community.

Volunteering allows you to connect with your community and make it a better place. There will be benefits for you, your family, and the organization that you choose to help. Some of these include:

Student volunteer abroad programs help you to make new friends:

Volunteer abroad opportunities for students are a great way to meet new people. Volunteering strengthens your ties to the community and broadens your support network, helping you to meet people with common interests and engage in fun and satisfying neighborhood activities.

Volunteering opportunities abroad for students improve your career options

Volunteering opportunities abroad for students provide career experience. They offer you the chance to explore new career paths without making a long-term commitment.

This is also a great way to gain experience with an organization working in a field in which you might already be interested.

International volunteering opportunities for students are good for learning new skills.

International volunteering opportunities for students provide extensive training. The activities in which you get involved can teach you valuable new skills such as planning, goal-setting, and budgeting skills to carry out a major fundraising event, for example.

Furthermore, supervising and training other volunteers can help you to develop your social abilities.

Motivation and sense of achievement

As part of the volunteer opportunities abroad for students, you will gain a great sense of achievement and motivation generated from the desire and enthusiasm to help people.

You cannot solve every problem in the world, but you can make a difference in people's lives and change them for the better.

IFRE’s best affordable student volunteer opportunities abroad programs

The student volunteer abroad programs are the best way to see the world. These projects give you the chance to become a responsible global citizen, to stretch your boundaries, and to embark on a journey to change people's lives.

IFRE offers various affordable, reputable, and well-organized volunteer programs that cater to different interests, budgets, time constraints and personal volunteer and travel goals.

HIV/Aids Project in Cambodia

HIV/AIDS is a major concern that affects Cambodia and its people, as it destroys lives to a great extent. Due to poverty, remoteness, and lack of qualified health personnel, Cambodians are deprived of getting the basic fundamentals of health care.

Also there is no one to create awareness about this dreaded disease that expands in leaps and bounds. Therefore, there is an urgent need for help.

IFRE's student volunteer abroad programs are organized to help improve this grave situation and lift the quality of life for those infected. IFRE also aims at educating them to curtail this disease's increase through prevention measures.

When you join this International volunteer opportunities for students program in Cambodia, you will be involved in helping affected people to live a better life.

Primarily, you will be working in collaboration with local organizations to carry out the HIV/AIDS projects promoting awareness and providing comfort to HIV/AIDS infected patients.

You will also counsel infected patients, assist clinics and hospitals, organize and lead educational seminars, provide friendship to patients, and get involved in fundraising activities as well. This is a great learning experience that will benefit you and your future career, as well as those infected with HIV/AIDS.

You will give them support and comfort, which will allow them to get up on their feet with confidence and never-ending belief.

Monk Teaching Project in Thailand

Thailand is not only known for its white elephants but also for its Buddhist religious significance. For centuries, Thais have been following Buddhism and communicating in their native tongue. This has estranged them from the modern outer world, as the language of English is completely alien to them.

This acts as barrier for them because they are not able to communicate or interact with people to share their religion and beliefs. Therefore, IFRE's student volunteer abroad programs are a perfect setting for spreading the language of English and teaching these people the required skills to be at par with the modern world.

When you join this monk teaching project as a participant of the student volunteering program, you will be teaching English in a Buddhist temple school. You will work for an average of four to five hours a day. You will contribute to developing teaching lessons and provide guidance.

In addition, you will be involved in teaching practical conversational English to children, plan and lead extra-curricular activities, assist in field trips for children, teach life skills and daily tasks such as cleaning, cooking, business skills, and gardening.

In the same way, you will  help the orphanage and school administrations with daily tasks and fundraising activities too. This sublime experience will give you inner peace and satisfaction, simultaneously helping these young Buddhist to know and understand the English language to make their lives easier and better.

Organic Farming in Costa Rica

The Central American country of Costa Rica is known for its agricultural products all around the world. However, in recent years, it has faced a decline in its farming activities due to conventional farming and excessive use of insecticides and pesticides. This has affected people's income generating means and their lives.

For this reason, there is a need to make these farmers understand and recognize the importance of organic and sustainable farming, which would also help in developing eco-tourism. IFRE's volunteer abroad opportunities for students program is exactly meant for this purpose.

Volunteers will work alongside local farmers to teach them new alternatives for more sustainable and eco-friendly agricultural practices.

When you begin your volunteering journey here as a participant of the International volunteer opportunities for students, you will be working hand in hand with the local farmers, setting up new systems of agriculture, and carrying out interviews and surveys.

Along with this, you will be spending the majority of your time doing physical farming such as handpicking coffee, and learning and sharing information on organic practices and more.

This will be a great learning experience for you which will give you a sense of accomplishment, as these farmers will be able  to yield better harvest and earn a better livelihood in the coming years.

HIV/Aids Project in Ghana

The western African country of Ghana has a serious health concern regarding HIV/AIDS. Each year, hundreds of adults and children are infected by this killer virus. This happens due to poverty, lack of health awareness, and insufficient medical professionals willing to delve deep into remote areas to treat these infected patients.

For this reason, IFRE's volunteer abroad opportunities for students program injects new hope in the lives of these patients by sharing love, time, care, and compassion through its efforts to stop the spread of this deadly disease.

When you participate in these Students volunteer abroad programs, you will be providing the much needed support and care to these HIV/AIDS infected patients, which include children. You will engage them in educational training and activities to create awareness to stop the spread of this epidemic in Ghana.

Your major role will be to visit these patients, provide basic and valuable tips regarding health nutrition, and sanitation, and keep the health records.

Additionally, you will organize awareness programs for the community related to preventing the spread of this disease and protection measures. Y

our valuable inputs for these infected patients along with your support will give you a sense of achievement, as the patients will get a new hope for a better life in a systematic and informed way.

Health Projcet in Tanzania

Tanzania is one of those countries in eastern Africa where hunger and malnutrition are predominant Children in the rural areas suffer substantially higher rates of malnutrition and hunger, which is a serious health concern.

This is because of poverty, lack of manpower and resources in the local hospitals to treat different health related issues. To address this, help is urgently needed, especially in the remote village areas.

Therefore, IFRE's volunteer abroad opportunities for students program is directed towards improving this situation with timely care and public awareness regarding health.

As a participant of the International volunteer opportunities for students, you will have the responsibility of  assisting the medical professionals in carrying out various medical assignments, such as measuring the B.P. temperature, height and weight, distributing medicines, and providing tips to patients on health, nutrition, and sanitation.

You will also counsel patients, treat minor injuries or wounds, and compile patients' records. Your effort regarding health concerns will satisfy you on personal grounds, as you help these patients to lead a healthy, safe, and secured life for a long time.

Sea Turtle Project in Mexico

Working to create a safer world for the endangered wild life species of Sea Turtle project in Mexico is a challenging task. Over the years, thousands of sea turtles have been slaughtered for their high priced meat and eggs.

Also, large numbers of sea turtles die each year due to illegal trawl nets and from illegal construction of homes and resorts in their nesting areas. This is a real matter of concern that needs to be addressed.

IFRE's volunteer abroad opportunities for students program is directed towards saving these endangered species of turtles and increase their lifespan, which has been cut short by greedy human needs and wants.

While working in sea turtle conservation project in Mexico as a participant of the International volunteer opportunities for students, you will be  involved in  patrolling the beaches at nights, carefully monitoring the nesting areas of the incubation coral, and releasing hatchlings into the ocean.

In addition, you will keep the data records of the hatchlings that can be used for future reference.

In the day time, you will be cleaning out the nest that have been hatched and helping the trapped hatchlings. You will also prevent contamination of the areas, get involved with environmental education programs and monitor other species of wildlife that inhibit these areas as well.

This unique wildlife saving experience broadens your perspectives satisfyingly while simultaneously helping these endangered sea turtles to thrive safely in the future.

Monk Teaching Project in Nepal

Are you interested in traveling to the land of Buddha and take on the opportunity of teaching English to the Buddhist monks? Well this is it! IFRE's international  volunteer opportunities for students give you the chance to teach English to these Buddhist monks.

As they devote their entire spiritual life to Buddhism and its teaching, learning a foreign language is challenging and abnormal for them. This is a great opportunity for you to change this.

Your role in the students volunteer abroad programs will be to teach the basic nuances of English to these Buddhist monks. You will be working either in a school of Tibetan children’s village or in a local monastery in Kathmandu.

Here, you will be assisting these monks in various extra-curricular activities such as games, drawing, singing, dancing and other creative tasks to build the confidence level of these students, thus helping them to socialize more freely than ever before.

This amazing volunteering journey of spiritual rituals is incomparably filled with a sense of accomplishment, as you change the perspective of these monks by giving them the power of English to communicate with the outer world.

Elephant Conservation in Thailand

Elephants have always mesmerized our thoughts with their presence. However, in recent years, their numbers have dwindled at an alarming rate and their lives are at stake all around the world. Elephants are facing this challenge in Surin, Thailand, more than anywhere else in the world.

Ever since logging has been stopped, these elephants once regarded as a useful member of the farmers' lives, now find themselves on the city streets, begging money, and without proper care and food. They cannot be returned back to the wild.

This situation needs to be changed quickly. IFRE's international volunteer opportunities for students plays a huge role in improving these elephant's lives.

When you volunteer in Surin as part of the student volunteer abroad programs, you will be working closely with the elephants,. You will get to know them well by interacting, riding, washing, and feeding them.

As a part of this volunteering project, you are expected to stay three nights each week in a village where you will be helping in cooking meals, performing daily chores, kayaking in the local river, and interacting with locals about their culture, religion and interests.

This entire journey gives you a satisfying feeling of accomplishing the task with dedication, along with giving the elephants the best chance to live in a secured and safe environment for the rest of their lives.

Apart from the student volunteering opportunities abroad programs, IFRE offers a wide range of interesting teaching opportunities abroad, adventure trips, family volunteer opportunities, community service trips for high school students, animal conservation projects and more.

Join as a volunteer of IFRE and get familiar with the places and programs that best suit your interests, purposes, desires, and time.