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Type	Title
Organizations	Nuestros Pequenos Hermanos International	NPH is a charitable organization serving orphaned and abandoned children in Latin America and the Caribbean. Its mission is to provide shelter, food, clothing, healthcare, and education in a Christian family environment based on unconditional acceptance and love, sharing, working and responsibility. NPH has homes throughout Central America and the Caribbean. Volunteers are asked to give a minimum of one year and may serve in a variety of positions.
Organizations	Operation Crossroads Africa	OCA oversees two volunteer programs: the Africa program, which annually supports 15 to 20 work projects in Africa, and the Diaspora program, which focuses on Brazil because of its large Afro Brazilian population. The program consists of three orientation days in New York City, six weeks of service on a rural project, and one week of travel in the hose country. All Crossroads ventures are community initiated and volunteers live and work with hosts who have designed the project.
Organizations	Peace Brigades International	PBI practices an effective approach to human rights protection known as protective accompaniment. PBI fields teams of international volunteers trained in nonviolence to accompany individuals and organizations facing death threats as a result of their work on behalf of human rights and social justice. PBI works based on principles of nonviolence, nonpartisanship and noninterference in the affairs of the groups they accompany. This experience also includes intensive networking with local, national, and international offices.
Organizations	Peacework	Peacework's purpose is to help alleviate conditions of poverty and promote peace and prosperity through economic development partnerships and service around the world. Each project is organized on a case-by-case basis with community leaders according to locally determined development needs and objectives.
Organizations	Plenty International	Plenty promotes the cooperative exchange of appropriate village-scale technologies, skills and resources between people worldwide. Special focus is on projects to assist indigenous peoples. Volunteer placements are limited to and based primarily in Belize. Plenty runs both a long term and summer program.
Organizations	Quest: Volunteers for Haiti	Quest: Volunteers for Haiti, a volunteer program sponsored by the Religious of Jesus and Mary, offers yearlong and summer opportunities in Gros Morne and Jean Rabel, Haiti. Volunteers share simple living with two or three members of Religious of Jesus and Mary while serving the poor in a variety of agricultural, medical, and educational ministries.
Organizations	Service Civil International-International Voluntary Service	SCI is a voluntary service organization and peace movement with 37 branches and 45 partners worldwide. SCI organizes international volunteer projects all over the world in the belief that if people with different backgrounds and cultures learn to cooperate and work together, peace can be the result. SCI organizes both short term and long term projects in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the US.
Organizations	Servicio Internacional para la Paz (SIPAZ)	Organized at the invitation of Mexican church and human rights groups, SIPAZ is a coalition of North American, Latin American, and European organizations dedicated to supporting the peace process in Chiapas, and increasingly in Oaxaca and Guerrero. SIPAZ seeks long term volunteers to help carry out work, which includes developing and maintaining relationships with groups and individuals concerned in the conflict, monitoring formal talks and independent initiatives, preparing updates and analysis on the ongoing peace process, and designing workshops on nonviolence.
Organizations	VIA	VIA serves impoverished communities throughout Asia. Each year, VIA places approximately 40 volunteers in China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand for between one to twenty-four months. While most VIA volunteers work as English teachers, some also work closely with a local nonprofit group as an English resource.
Organizations	Visions in Action	Visions in Action is a nonprofit organization that offers six month and one year volunteer positions in Mexico, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda. The program features an orientation with language study followed by a home-stay in a local community. Positions available with nonprofit development organizations, research institutes, health clinics, community groups and the media.
Organizations	Volunteers for Peace, Inc (VFP)	VFP recruits volunteers for over 3,400 international voluntary service projects in 100 different countries. At a project, 10 to 20 people from five or more countries join together for two or three weeks to support community projects in construction, restoration, environmental work, social services, agriculture, and archaeology.Volunteers can participate in multiple projects in the same or different countries.
Organizations	Los Ninos	Los Ninos supports long-term community development projects along the US-Mexico border, and works with high schools and universities in Canada and the US. Program areas include nutrition, ecology, microcredit, cross-cultural issues, and education designed to prmote self-reliance and social awareness. Los Ninos offers long-term volunteer opportunities to assist in these programs.
Organizations	Nicaragua Network	For a quarter of a century, the Nicaragua Network has been a leading organization in the US committed to social and economic justice for Nicaragua and Latin America, based upon respect for sovereignty and self-determination. The network advocates for sound US foreign policies that respect human rights and international law. Campaigns include confronting water privatization, debt cancellation for Nicaragua and other poor countries, and radical change of the IMF/World Bank measures.
Organizations	Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala	NISGUA's Guatemala Accompaniment Project creates non-violent response to the threats, harassment, and violence faced by the survivors of Guatemala's 36-yearlong civil war and by grassroots organizations working for justice and human rights. Volunteers live alongside threatened individuals and communities in an effort to deter human rights violations. Volunteers commit to a minimum of six months of service and are at least 21 years old.
Organizations	Foundation for Sustainable Development	FSD has provided technical training, funding and human resourceful to nearly 200 NGOs and grass roots organizations in Latin America, East Africa, and India. FSD's nonprofit model gives 100% of grants received to the communities they service. FSD believes that sustainable development is a dynamic profess that must interweave pragmatism with cultural awareness.