welcome! International Service Opportunities

What we do:

KIDS Worldwide helps to organise placements for international volunteers to get involved in over thirty childrens projects located in developing countries around the world. These projects are managed by organisations registered in the country in which they work.

Our point of difference:
Kids Worldwide is different from the majority of other volunteer organisations in that we do not charge the projects any money for being on our website or for our services. This means that volunteers only pay for their food and accomodation to the project directors themselves, when they arrive - thus directly benefitting the project they are going to help. There is no middle man and the cost is thus very reasonable to volunteers.

Answers to many volunteers questions related to cost and the way we work can be found in the volunteer section of our website as well as the about us section.

Projects we assist:

Click on the continent that you wish to volunteer in:

[South America] [Africa] [Asia]
[Central America / Caribbean][Oceania]

Supporting Childrens Projects

We also support orphanages and childrens projects by helping with graphic / web design, and internet communications, especially with regard to volunteer placements. If you know of a project which may be interested in our work, or run such a project yourself, you are welcome to contact us. First read the affiliation section.

Mailing Lists

Write to past and current volunteers at the project that you are interested in. Click here to find the mailing list that suits your needs.

What's new on the website?

Every 6 months, Kids Worldwide reviews project submissions from numerous projects keen to join our website and selects those that are promising to join the programme. Our latest June batch of new projects consists of the following:

	Fiji - Vasist Muni Memorial School A Primary school in a quiet village on the west of the main Viti Levu island.
	Tanzania - Good Hope Orphanage A childrens home for 12 orphans and a primary school. This project has taken volunteers through other organisations but is new to our website.
	Tanzania - Watoto wa Africa Home to 45 orphans near Mwaza. Kids Worldwide sent volunteers here in 2006. We are resuming providing volunteers for this project in June 08.
	Sierra Leone - Children in Christ A primary school in Kambia - Northern Sierra Leone which currently has 45 students. Also, the organisation is seeking volunteers to help with office work in Freetown - the capital of Sierra Leone.

News

Two Year Bike Trip around Africa

Helen Lloyd will be departing the UK in the summer 2009, and travelling through West Africa and then East Africa. During her trip she hopes to undertake some documentary photography, which will be put up on her website. For her photography project, local people will be given cameras with which to document their lives. These photos together with their short stories would then put on the website with the aim of showing people back in the UK how some of those in Africa live. Helen will be visiting several of the Kids Worldwide projects in West Africa. We wish her luck!

Correspondence

We were recently contacted by the organiser of Youth in Prison which is an exchange programme for Dutch volunteers only, who want to go to either Colombia or Brazil. Dutch volunteers go there and work for 2-3 weeks giving different courses and workshops (all different types of art) and exchange ideas and values with the local people. Youngsters will also go to Holland to give workshops together with Dutch volunteers who speak Portuguese and Spanish fluently. If interested, contact Tom Schurs.