The Institute for International Cooperation and Development places volunteers in Angola, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Brazil, Nicaragua, El Salavador, Guatemala, Honduras, and India. The Lisle Fellowship sponsors volunteer programs in the United States and 17 other countries. The National Park Service is looking for volunteers to assist professional archeologists at Bryce Canyon National Park in southern Utah or El Malpais National Monument, in western New Mexico. Surveys are done on foot, involving full days of walking and site recording, often in difficult terrain and in all kinds of weather. Fieldwork is conducted in sessions of eight, ten-hour workdays, followed by six days off.
Volunteers live with archeology crews in tent camps adjacent to the survey areas.
Meals are provided. All personal gear must be purchased by the volunteers prior to arriving. Applications must be received by March 30, 2001. The Sisters of Saint Joseph of Boston are looking for volunteers to serve between June 18 and July 13, 2001. Volunteers work in homeless shelters, programs for troubled youth, and adult literacy classes.