This guide includes some 2,000 projects around the world, up from 70 in the first edition 12 years ago. I went on archeological studies and have taught art to kids in India. I still correspond with some of the people I have met over the years. The working vacation options are ambitious. Volunteers do not need any special skills to participate, just a willingness to serve.
Local masons supervise and teach the Amizade volunteers on every part of the project.
Earthwatch Institute , based in Maynard, Mass., was founded in 1971 in response to the lack of funding for scientific field research. Earthwatch will send volunteers on expeditions led by archaeologists, oceanographers, anthropologists and other scientists seeking unpaid hands-on help. You pay for the privilege of excavating ruins, surveying coral reefs, or observing lemurs in Madagascar. San Francisco-based Sierra Club offers Sierra Club Outings , a program founded in 1902 by John Muir, who was convinced that the best way to save valuable wilderness areas was to introduce people into endangered regions and let them experience for themselves their fragile beauty. Volunteers in Inner City Outings help introduce urban youth to wilderness areas through backpacking, canoeing and cross-country skiing.