Overseas Community Service Opportunities

SUMMER SERVICE TRIPS

Summer Service Trips to South Africa, Honduras, and West Virginia will be offered Summer 2008. Click here to view PDF of the brochure about these programs sent home in December 2007. Tentative schedules and registration forms are available below:
South Africa Registration Form
South Africa (tentative) Schedule

Honduras Registration Form
Honduras (tentative) Schedule
Intro to Sustainable Horizons (Honduras trip program)

West Virginia Registration Form

OTHER OPPORTUNITIES

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Volunteers for Peace (VFP)
For the adventurous student who wants an independent, rustic and unique experience, this workcamp structure offers an affordable way to travel, live and work in a foreign country at a very minimal cost. Started 50 years ago after the world wars as a program of reconciliation and peace between countries,
VFP coordinates European workcamps for teens from around the world.

International Partners (IP)
IP is an exchange with developing countries, locally coordinated by the Washington Ethical Society
(202) 882-6650. SSFS students have participated in this program, helping in schools and communities in Latin America.

Rustic Pathways
This program has been chosen by several SSFS students for a summer experience. One or more weeks of community service are built into the teen travel trips to countries including: Thailand, Costa Rica, Australia and the Fiji Islands.

Global Works
Trips blend language learning with community service in countries around the world: Puerto Rico, Spain, Ecuador, Yucatan, Peru, Argentina, Costa Rica, Panama, Mexico, France, Martinique, Ireland, New Zealand.

World Horizons
Three to five week service programs take students to: Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Dominica, Ecuador, Fiji, Iceland, India, Italy and England.

Lifeworks
This company offers service learning that combines cultural immersion, travel and outdoor activity. Countries include: British Virgin Islands, Costa Rica, Thailand, China and Australia.

Service Learning in Paris
Students become absorbed in French culture while performing community service in the great city of Paris.

United States

Landmark Volunteers
This agency offers service programs in interesting spots all over the nation. Experiences such as building trails in Glacier National Park or protecting ancient ruins in New Mexico give students a unique view of our own country.

Student Conservation Association (SCA)
Students spend a month restoring parks and forests (in conjunction with the National Park Service), living in the wilderness with a small group of teens. Tuition-free and open to students aged 15-19, teens learn about environmental stewardship while living in some of the most beautiful settings in our country (including Alaska and Hawaii).

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