Work with United Planet to live, share, and collaborate, and discover your common goals with women around the world.
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 keep the community need in mind to ensure your experience will be important, relevant and helpful to the community you serve.
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.
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.
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.
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
United Planet is an international non-profit organization with a mission to create a global community, one relationship at a time. We connect people who want to make a difference in communities across the world through overseas volunteer travel programs, global virtual internships & volunteering, and project-based virtual exchange programs. With opportunities in more than 40 countries, you will learn, teach, work, engage and immerse yourself in a culture outside your comfort zone. For many, volunteering abroad is the most fulfilling experience of their lives!
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