Sample Opportunities
Pacific
- Join a research team as you explore the coastal waterways of the Indo-Pacific that support the highest diversity of tropical marine life found anywhere on Earth
- Experience how the Balinese live and how family life and religious customs are woven into the creation of art as you learn mask carving, Balinese dance and shadow puppetry
- Take part in a unique and comprehensive examination of island ecosystems, their diverse island cultures and the challenges they face today
- Learn to scuba and work with a team of coral reef researchers
- Gather valuable certifications necessary to teach sailing or to find a job in the industry
- Work in a film production studio
Central/South America
- Work for social justice involving men, women, street children, workers rights, prisoners
- Learn Spanish and work on your surfing abilities at the same time
- Live on a women’s coop that grows and sells medicinal plants and herbs
- Learn Portuguese in Rio while working with children from all walks of life to prepare for Carnival
- Ride with the gauchos on a sports ranch
North America
- Train to be a wilderness guide
- Volunteer at a yoga retreat
- Intern with a theatrical troupe using your performing skills while helping with maintenance and cooking
- Learn to explore your artistic abilities while creating your own short films
- Work at a zoo helping with dolphins
- Intern with a newspaper, government agency, restaurant, healthcare setting, dance studio
Africa
- Experience a filmmaking course and produce real wildlife footage as you develop your career as a wildlife filmmaker.
- Work with sharks, penguins, big game, lion cubs and dolphins
- Volunteer, observe and assist resident doctors and nurses in HIV Clinics, urban and rural areas
- Help at a safari game lodge
- Learn by exercising, schooling and involving yourself in the rehabilitation of abused horses
- Choose from projects involved with poverty, grassroots development and micro-financing
Worldwide
- Take courses in wilderness medicine, back country skiing and avalanche recovery
- Get involved with community and social issues with Native Americans, refugees, indigenous people, women and street children
- Teach kids, coach sports, learn to dance, set up a health clinic or work on local environmental projects
- Crew on a tall ship where some of the crew are physically challenged
- Take part in a project that combines architecture with ecology
Asia
- Apprentice with a sitar player
- Study Eastern medicine on the border of Tibet
- Live with Buddhists, Hindis and Sikhs while you learn about their religions, traditions and take part in community service
- Trek the Himalayas
- Work with local NGO’s providing irrigation, health care, agriculture training, micro-credit and small business generation.
Europe
- Restore medieval hamlets and castles
- Help one of the oldest ethnic groups in Europe care for rare species of horses, sheep, goats and dogs
- to keep them from going extinct
- Work in an orphanage in Eastern Europe
- Learn to become a ski instructor in the Alps
- Research ways to reclaim arid soil to alleviate poverty and hunger of desert communities
- Become a shepherd and beekeeper
- Study fashion, cooking, photography, art history, ceramics,
- Intern in the arts, politics, media, marketing or finance
