Allies receive a living allowance, health and child care benefits, and an educational award. Positions include tutoring, grant writing, and tutoring. Volunteers are placed for three year periods in Africa, Asia and the Pacific Islands, Latin America and Eastern Europe. They are two year appointments. Volunteers work in 80 countries around the world and appointments are for two years and are very competitive.
Participants do pay a fee but scholarships are available.
Eight week, six month and full year programs available. There are also databases on the web that can help match you with volunteer opportunities, based on your zip code, length of time you wish to serve, type of service, etc. A few are listed below. There are three different pages to perform a search, each asking for slightly different information. One then signs up for email to receive messages of opportunities from selected organizations.