GSC Resources

Global Routes is a non-governmental, non-sectarian organization committed to strengthening our global community through voluntary work overseas. The organization designs foreign exchange programs based on community service, bringing people with different world views together.

IWM seeks a new economic, social and political order promoting justice and solidarity. Missionaries work with homeless women and children and indigenous peoples performing services that may include human rights work, health care, clinic/hospice ministry and pastoral ministry. Missionaries serve in the US, Guatemala, Peru, Mexico, and throughout Africa. Missionaries must be at least 21 years old and in good physical and mental health and willing to commit to one year in their own country or two to three years in a country other than their own.

Interplast is a nonprofit organization that partners with physicians and provides free reconstructive surgeries for the poor and builds year-round medical access in underserved areas. It restores the dreams of those with deformities and injuries, and impacts the world by renewing the health of thousands of children and adults each year so they can go to school, provide for their families and contribute to society. The organization works in more that 25 sites in over 12 countries throughout the world and has provided almost 57,000 surgeries since 1969.

JAC is an NGO headquartered in Haryana State in the outskirts of Delhi, India. It coordinates conferences in training in various parts of India on disaster preparedness and works in liaison with group, individuals, and small grassroots projects throughout the country. JAC focuses on community, welfare, health, education, youth development, and agricultural training. Short term (one moth) and long term (greater than three months) projects are available.

MCC is the cooperative relief, service, and peace agency of the Mennonite and Brethern in Christ churches of North America. Currently just over 1,200 people serve in agriculture, health, education, social services, and community development fields in 55 countries. Travel, living expenses, and a small stipend are provided. Volunteers should be Christian, actively involved in a Church congregation, and in agreement with MCC's nonviolent principles.

Think Impact is a non-profit organization that connects American college students and recent graduates with rural villages in Africa to become social entrepreneurs. They do this through internship and fellowship programs in South Africa, Kenya and Sierra Leone. Through Think Impact’s Global Development Internships and Fellowships, young people are given the opportunity to alleviate poverty through a sustained commitment to social innovation, leadership and entrepreneurship. 

An organization legally recognized by the Government of Ecuador, which was constituted through the ministerial agreement No.0350 on October 10, 2005. Currently it is the only organization authorized to select and supply volunteers to third party organizations providing their services in social, community, educational, healthcare and ecological projects/programs throughout Ecuador.