You’ll have the choice of spending 3 months on the Youth Action programme working in a group with local youth volunteers on community action projects, or 6 months on Youth Xchange, an exchange programme with 3 months each in the UK and abroad. Working on a range of issues including HIV&AIDS, education, youth leadership, active citizenship and climate change, your work will involve activities such as educating other young people, helping set up youth clubs to involve young people in the community, conducting research into health service access, and creating campaigns for change.
Whether you go for 6 months on Youth Xchange or 3 months on Youth Action, you’ll be putting your energies to work where your help has been asked for, making a real difference to the lives of some of the world’s poorest people. Each project is designed to bring about lasting change for very poor communities, and as a volunteer with Global Xchange, you will get the opportunity to contribute directly to this change.
You’ll work in groups with young volunteers from the country you’re based in, learning from each other and sharing ideas to create a lasting impact. If we can, we try and match your placement to your interests, but to ensure you make an impact, our placements are designed around what the community needs, rather than our volunteers' preferences. On the plus side, you’ll be working with an organisation that can really use your help.
You can find information about the kind of things volunteers get up to and the programmes and what we have planned on the current teams links on this website.
You will work in pairs or groups of 5 to 10 UK volunteers and 5 to 10 volunteers from the host country. Throughout your placement there will be days set aside for the whole team to come together for learning and team training, and UK volunteers will attend training days before and after your placement.
