Youth Programs (under 18)
These programs are perfect for middle and high school students or educational groups. Summer, Winter Break, Spring Break, or Gap Year programs available. There are also options for semester or year-long study abroad.
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Amigos International
Powerful Volunteer Abroad Programs in Latin America.
AMIGOS organizes volunteer abroad programs for high school and college students seeking powerful life experiences. You will experience full cultural immersion that will challenge you and leave you with lifelong memories. We set you on the path to be a leader in a global community. You will lead projects that have a meaningful local impact, while you live and work with communities across the Americas. |
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Adventures Cross Country
For over 30 years ARCC has offered extraordinary summer/gap service and adventure programs for teenagers in some of the world’s most spectacular locations. ARCC is committed to providing unique and life-changing experiences that resonate deep within our students. On our programs, our students venture far off the beaten path, go to places and do things that most people can only dream about.
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Beyond Student Travel
We offer summer travel programs for high school students. Locations include: FIJI, COSTA RICA, CHINA, ZAMBIA, PANAMA, and INDIA.
International experiences present a real opportunity for students to develop tangible skills that will better prepare them for the increasingly complex world they live in. Our students return home with not only a better understanding of the world, but a better understanding of themselves and the confidence to affect positive change in their local and global communities. We accomplish this through objectives in the following areas: leadership development, career exploration, and service learning. |
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BroadReach
Make the most of this summer by earning college credit as you trek across the globe, exploring extraordinary destinations and fascinating topics through hands-on instruction, field research and service learning.
Discover a study abroad program like no other. One where your professor is out there on a Costa Rican beach with you at midnight, counting sea turtle eggs and surveying nests, or where you’re observing New World primates in their natural habitats, not just reading about them in a textbook. We take things to a new level by layering in hands-on field experience out in the real world. |
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Earthwatch Institute
Earthwatch Teen Expeditions are designed specifically and exclusively for 15- to 18-year-olds and are different from any other experience teenagers can have. Eighteen-year-olds have the option of joining a Teen Expedition or a regular expedition as an adult.
They're hands-on, engaging, and meaningful, providing unrivaled opportunities to undertake vital, peer-reviewed scientific field research under the supervision of skilled research teams in a professional setting on projects all around the world. |
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Envoys
Envoys recognizes the necessity of experiences outside of the classroom to develop globally competent youth. We believe that educational travel must meet the same high expectations that have been placed on the rest of the education sector. Envoys partners with innovative teachers and schools from around the world to expand education beyond the classroom doors. We begin teaching months before the trip commences, using a series of online courses to fully prepare students for their experience. For more info, visit our website!
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Global Leadership Adventures
Global Leadership Adventures presents a fresh, new approach to service-learning abroad for teens who are intellectually-curious and socially-oriented. Volunteers on a GLA program contribute to a meaningful service project in an under-served community, learn about the local culture through immersion, and explore sites both historic and natural in their host country. All GLA programs are for high school students only, so participants can interact and share among peers their age who share the same interests in international travel and volunteering. Programs are available in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America.
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Global Routes
Global Routes offers teen summer community service travel programs for high school students grades 8-12, gap-year and semester internships for students 17-20 years of age, and customized programs for schools and organized groups in Belize, Brazil, Cambodia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, India, Kenya, Morocco, Nepal, Peru, Tanzania & Thailand.
Global Routes deepens the roots of our shared community as we foster personal and international development. Undertaking voluntary work overseas allows North American youth the opportunity to push past stereotypes and misconceptions to build strong relationships and self-understanding, as well as buildings. |
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Global Vision International
GVI has a great culture and award-winning volunteer programs in 13 countries around the world including South Africa, Fiji, Mexico, Costa Rica, Greece, Thailand, Nepal, Laos, Australia, India, etc. Projects involve wildlife/marine conservation, teaching, childcare, healthcare, construction, + more.
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Global Works
Global Works combines community service, cultural exchange, language immersion, and adventure- which creates an unforgettable experience, friends for a lifetime, lessons in leadership, and impactful change! Global Works offers summer service adventure programs for high school students and custom group travel. Choose from many different countries to create the best experience for you!
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Go Eco
GoEco was created by experienced volunteers for people who are eager to travel and contribute to the community, wildlife, and environment they visit. Based on years of practice and in-depth field reports, GoEco presents you with a careful selection of excellent yet affordable volunteer and ecological minded vacations.
Locations include: Africa, Central America, Asia, Australia, Europe, and South America. Teenage volunteering abroad is a great way to cultivate the foreign language you are studying in school, meet incredible people, and give back to less-fortunate communities abroad. These projects are amazing resume-builders, great for college and job applications. |
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Greenheart Travel
Volunteer abroad in Costa Rica or India for an unforgettable travel experience. Greenheart Travel also offers high school study abroad opportunities and summer language camps to gain confidence, independence, and a global perspective. Go to the website to learn more!
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IFRE Volunteers Abroad
Travel with your high school group, off to a different community, different country with one objective: bring small yet tangible changes in needy communities. IFRE’s High School Group Volunteering program enables you to explore the facets of human communities in need of service from volunteer groups like yours. This is an opportunity for student groups to learn, get involved in direct community service and mingle with the locals in their local culture and unique traditions. Strengthen bonds with other team members, hone team spirit and polish yourself as leaders. IFRE identifies areas that are in genuine need for service and selects projects for the group accordingly, so that students can go out and make a real, tangible difference out there. Students will get to practice Spanish or Portuguese while mingling with local people and traveling around local areas.
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International Student Volunteers
ISV is the world’s highest rated volunteer program by over 35,000 student participants. ISV's High School Program is a unique 18 day program for high school students that combines volunteering and adventure travel. High School students aged 15 - 18 will travel with a purpose on a life-changing cultural experience that encourages leadership, teambuilding, experiential learning and above all, a sense of giving back.
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Kaya Volunteer
Don't just travel as a tourist - with Kaya Responsible Travel experience the real world and make a real difference. Kaya gives you the opportunity to volunteer abroad, learn a language abroad, gain valuable work experience overseas, or take a gap year.
Become an International Volunteer and choose from programs in Asia, Africa or Latin America. Kaya has multiple programs available for students under 18 years old. |
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POD Volunteer
Pod Volunteer is an award winning non-profit organisation arranging ethical, inspiring and supported volunteering opportunities around the world since 2001.
Volunteers are needed from 1 - 12 weeks for animal, conservation, child care, education, teaching, building and community volunteering projects in Belize, Cambodia, Ghana, India, Madagascar, Nepal, Peru, South Africa and Thailand. |
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Rustic Pathways
We are committed to supporting local economies and minimizing our environmental footprint as we travel. We work with locally owned tourism ventures off the beaten path, buy goods from local businesses, employ a wide range of staff from our destinations. We seek to educate our students on how to travel responsibly and actively support community initiatives in the places we visit.
We implementing projects with community members through our community service programs. Projects are developed through extensive collaboration with local partners and in accordance with best practice guidelines to support effective outcomes. |
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THINK Global School
THINK Global School is a traveling high school where a group of 45 exceptional students live and study in three countries per year. We combine a top-notch academic education with place-based, empathy-oriented learning and the support of a devoted community of faculty and staff for a truly one-of-a-kind experience.
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VISIONS Service Adventures
Be a teen without borders! VISIONS collaborates with local nonprofits to make long-term commitments in our communities. Every VISIONS program undertakes at least one central construction project, as well as a non-construction project to fit local needs. Collaborative service work and cross-cultural living help teen volunteers understand a complicated world and learn meaningful ways to contribute productively. Students anchor down in the heart of a local neighborhood with group members and leaders. They will live the rhythm of daily life, truly getting to know the place and people. VISIONS is a good fit for students who want to concentrate on real service that truly impacts a community, while engaging with the local people.
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Volunteering Solutions
A lot of high school students, who are under 18, volunteer through us. Students spend four very important years of their lives in High School, which is a stepping stone towards pursuing a better career. And we believe this is a perfect time to volunteer abroad. These programs are monitored by staff who they make sure they are safe and provide the best experience for the first time independent traveler abroad. The programs are designed to give you great volunteering experience and immersion in to local cultures abroad.
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Walking Tree Travel
As a high school student, you have two ways to join a Walking Tree program. The first is on an Open Enrollment program, which welcomes any high school student from the summer before their 9th grade year to the summer after their 12th grade year to travel on any one of dozens of different trips with varying focuses, lengths and destinations. The second is via a Custom Program, which is organized specifically for your group of classmates, family or friends. In a Custom Program we design an itinerary just for you, allowing you to customize the duration of your travel, the activities and destinations we include and even the budget to ensure the final trip is affordable for all involved. Visit the website for destinations and more info!
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