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Volunteer TEFL Jobs - English Teaching Positions around the World

Be aware that many volunteer agencies will charge you a fee for participating in their programs - be sure to read the "fine print" with any placement.  You can generally guess which agencies are really trying to help people and which are just trying to "make a buck" by the size of their fees.  It does cost an organization money to house and feed you.  If they don't charge anything they are taking food or jobs away from the local people by spending it on you.  Look for the happy medium where you pay for your expenses.

The best place on the Web for locating volunteer positions is at: Idealist.org
The website posts all types of positions, short-term, long-term, teaching and non-teaching roles and there is a lot to sort through, but they have a pretty good search engine that will help you find what you are looking for.

Following is a list of organizations that routinely accept volunteer applications for English teachers:

Smile and Go has opportunities in India - short and long term

Involvement Volunteers, based in Australia, makes international placements

Volunteer Tibet offers a good variety of short-term English teaching opportunities

Volunteers in Asia provides placement for Americans ages 18-80 in short and long term teaching roles

Volunteer Service and Support Nepal (VSSN):  VSSN is a Non-governmental organization which places volunteers in schools and orphanages for two to five months

Organization of Development Action and Maintenance (ODAM): ODAM is a South Indian NGO working to improve the lives of the rural poor, especially women and children, small and marginal farmers, landless labourers and other disadvantaged and socially oppressed communities in Tamilnadu.  Their website is not very helpful, so use these contact addresses: info@odam.in and/or odam_95@yahoo.com

Independent Volunteers Organization usually has several volunteer teaching opportunities where the fees are only for food and accommodation.  The blue link takes you to their teaching page.

Volunteer South America maintains list of organizations that accept volunteers. But, you'll need to sort through a long list in hopes of finding a teaching job.

This list is not meant to be exhaustive - please let us know of programs that should be added - our focus here is on volunteer English teaching jobs overseas - not general volunteering.

Please contact us at jobs (at) tefltemp (dot) com if you have jobs you would like to have listed here - or - if you know of good quality volunteer organizations that should be added to the list.