volunteer abroad
Unpaid international service
Volunteer abroad describes unpaid work done in a foreign country, typically for humanitarian, environmental, or educational causes.
The phrase usually implies a structured program: She spent her gap year volunteering abroad in Costa Rica.
The experience combines service with travel and cultural immersion, though critics note that some programs benefit volunteers more than the communities they claim to help.
- overseasIn foreign countries
- serviceAid or maintenance
- peace corpsCivilian overseas service program
- humanitarianHelper of suffering people
- NGOIndependent charitable organization
mission · travel · teaching · orphanage · gap year · summer program · altruism · developing · community · project · immersion · passport · homestay · conservation · third world · cultural exchange · unpaid · goodwill
- Global Aidaid, humanitarian aid, foreign aid, disaster relief, relief work
- cultural immersionhomestay, language exchange, exchange student, host family, local cuisine
- global experiencesexchange student, cultural immersion, exchange program, homestay, international student
- voluntourismvoluntourism, voluntourist, service trips, mission trip, mission trips
- gap yeargap year, backpacking, working holiday, exchange program, university exchange
- language immersiontotal immersion, immersion school, submersion, bilingual education, bilingual school
volunteer, abroad, volunteers, volunteered, volunteering, volunteerism, voluntary, voluntarily, involuntary