The Department for International Development (DFID) is urging British people to use their power as consumers to help help meet MDG #1 and the other MDGs. A free printed guide to ethical consumerism and an interactive website feature people from developing countries telling their own stories.  Visit site

AFS Intercultural Programs is an international, voluntary, non-governmental, non-profit organization that provides intercultural learning opportunities to help people develop the knowledge, skills and understanding needed to create a more just and peaceful world. AFS Intercultural Programs is a leader in intercultural learning and offers international exchange programs in over 50 countries around the world through independent, not-for-profit AFS organizations, each with a network of volunteers, a professionally staffed office, and headed up by a volunteer board.  Visit site

The volunteer programme of the American Dental Association (ADA) seeks volunteers to provide continuing education to general dentists in Port-au-Prince and Cape Haitien in basic sciences, radiology, diagnosis and treatment planning, oral surgery and various dental treatments. ADA is also looking for volunteers to Moldova, Nicaragua and St. Lucia.  Visit site

Amigos de la Americas (AMIGOS) builds partnerships to empower young leaders, advance community development and strengthen multicultural understanding in the Americas.  Visit site

Ampersand.org.au is the web-based arm of the Ampersand Network Inc., a not-for-profit group committed to making the volunteer sector more accessible to students in Australia. It provides access to opportunities listed with Volunteering Australia and Conservation Volunteers, and provides links to agencies that can place young volunteers in countries all over the world.  Visit site

ArtCorps pairs volunteer artists for 9-12 months with Central American organizations to communicate their messages through art. Artists use every imaginable art form including theater, mime, puppetry, mural painting, sculpture and poetry to bring the organizations' environmental and social messages to life and engage the local community in its activities.   Visit site

In summer 2008 will organize big workcamps and is taking volunteers for long and short periods. You can also call in Togo or in Germany and also in Belgium. (In French).  Visit site

The Association of Voluntary Service Organisations (AVSO), an international non-governmental organisation, is a European platform of non-profit organisations offering opportunities for long-term full-time internationaland/or national voluntary service. AVSO promotes full-time, long-term voluntary service by advocacy activities, by lobbying governmental institutions at the European and national levels and by networking with other non-governmental and public organisations.
AVSO strives to promote trans-national voluntary service by offering support services to organisations involved directly or indirectly in volunteering,e.g. by policy monitoring, by organising training and partnership-building events and by identifying best practice and sharing expertise.   Visit site

AVS serves as Lebanon's national volunteer centre – working with, and supporting its member agencies. It aims to promote, facilitate and improve volunteering and community service throughout Lebanon; empower individuals who wants to make a difference through volunteering and bridge social barriers by encouraging the different sectors of society to work together.  Visit site

Australian Volunteers International (AVI) is Australia's largest and most experienced international volunteer sending agency. In the last 50 years AVI has placed more than 6,000 Australian volunteers in 70 countries in Asia, the Pacific, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.   Visit site