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We're not here to be dramatic about it. But our July team is still forming, and applying for a scholarship doesn't take ...
28/05/2026

We're not here to be dramatic about it. But our July team is still forming, and applying for a scholarship doesn't take long.

10 months volunteering abroad. Real projects. Real communities. The kind of experience that tends to come up in conversation for the rest of your life.

Find out more at humanavolunteers.org and take the first step. 💚

🇿🇲 Roberta and Ana went to Namwala, Zambia, to volunteer in a community project. Then something unexpected happened.🥊 Th...
27/05/2026

🇿🇲 Roberta and Ana went to Namwala, Zambia, to volunteer in a community project. Then something unexpected happened.

🥊 They started training in their backyard every evening after work. People noticed. Then they joined. Then more people joined. Then the word spread — and suddenly there were young people showing up every day to box with them.

That's when they asked the community a simple question: is sport really this unusual here?

The answer was clear. People don't do sports in Namwala because there is nowhere to do it.

🏋🏾‍♀️ So Roberta and Ana started dreaming about a community gym. On their own initiative. A safe space where young people — especially women — can train, get stronger, and find something to show up for every day.

Because in a place where drought, unemployment and limited opportunities are daily realities, sport isn't a luxury. It's a lifeline.

Three community members will take ownership and run it — long after Roberta and Ana are gone.

🔗 Want to support their initiative? Check our stories for the link.

🌍 And if this kind of experience speaks to you — this is what 10 months abroad actually looks like. Start your journey filling out the form in our bio

Earlier this month our team headed to DNS Tvind to help build the Peace & Justice Conference from the inside: cooking fo...
20/05/2026

Earlier this month our team headed to DNS Tvind to help build the Peace & Justice Conference from the inside: cooking for hundreds of people, setting up the space, making sure everything worked before anyone arrived...

✨ The kind of work that nobody sees but everyone feels.

🏫 The Peace & Justice Conference has been bringing together activists, educators and changemakers every spring since 2015. This year's theme is "Uniting for Tomorrow", and has been part of it from the start.

💪🏾 Our volunteers didn't attend the conference. They put their best efforts to make it possible.

💚 Here's a quick photo dump of their time at

Some things you can only learn by being somewhere for long enough.Not long enough to feel like a tourist. Long enough fo...
20/05/2026

Some things you can only learn by being somewhere for long enough.

Not long enough to feel like a tourist. Long enough for the novelty to wear off and the real work to begin.

That's what six months in the field does. It gets past the surface — of the place, of the work, and of yourself.

Our October 20206 and January 2027 teams are also forming for those for whom July feels too soon. No wrong time to start.

📲 The first step is to fill out the form:
🔗 humanavolunteers.org

There's a question we get a lot: "𝐃𝐨 𝐈 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲?"The honest answer: not the kind you might think. What m...
19/05/2026

There's a question we get a lot: "𝐃𝐨 𝐈 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲?"

The honest answer: not the kind you might think. What matters more is curiosity, adaptability, and a genuine willingness to learn — often from people who know their communities far better than any outside expert could.

The programme gives you the structure. You've got to bring the openness.

Our July team still has spots available. Fill in the form at humanavolunteers.org and have your first meeting today 💚

Living together in peace is easier to declare than to practise.This weekend marked the International Day of Living Toget...
18/05/2026

Living together in peace is easier to declare than to practise.

This weekend marked the International Day of Living Together in Peace — and it got us thinking about what that actually looks like inside our programme.

Our volunteer teams are a small, sustained experiment in what it genuinely requires. People from across Europe — different languages, different professional backgrounds, different cultural assumptions about communication, conflict and collaboration — living and working together for 10 months.

The first few weeks of training in Denmark are rarely smooth. They're not supposed to be. The friction is where the learning happens — about other people, about your own defaults, and about what genuine cross-cultural collaboration looks like in practice rather than in theory.
That's the part that doesn't make it into the highlight reel. And it might be the most valuable part of the whole experience.

🔗 Learn more about our program at humanavolunteers.org

Our July team is forming now.🌍 If you've been thinking about this for a while — reading about it, looking into it, savin...
17/05/2026

Our July team is forming now.

🌍 If you've been thinking about this for a while — reading about it, looking into it, saving posts for later — this is probably the moment to stop researching and start applying.

✈️ 10 months. Training in Europe. Six months on a development project in Africa or Asia. A team from across the continent. And an experience that tends to answer a few questions you didn't know you were asking.

💌 The form is on our website. It doesn't take long. And if you have questions before you fill it in, we're happy to answer them.

🔗 humanavolunteers.org

🌍 Before they go to the projects, they need to follow and understand the chain.🧥 That's why our April team visited to s...
14/05/2026

🌍 Before they go to the projects, they need to follow and understand the chain.

🧥 That's why our April team visited to see what happens after a piece of clothing gets donated.

♻️ The sorting, the redistribution, the funding model that connects a jacket in Copenhagen to a community project in Zambia.

They're not just volunteers in a program. They're part of a system built to last. 💚

🔗 Link in bio to learn more about the 's projects we work with

On International Nurses Day, we're thinking about something our volunteers learn quickly on the ground.Health change doe...
12/05/2026

On International Nurses Day, we're thinking about something our volunteers learn quickly on the ground.

Health change doesn't start in hospitals. It starts in communities — in conversations, in trust built over time, in the daily work of people who show up whether or not anyone is watching.

In Guinea-Bissau, our volunteers support the TCE programme — a community-based HIV prevention and testing initiative that has reached over 20 million people across 12 countries since 2000. Local health workers lead it. Volunteers support it. And the difference between those two things matters enormously.

Today we're thinking about every community health worker doing the quiet, essential work that holds everything else together.

🔗 Learn more about our program at humanavolunteers.org

There's a version of your next year that looks completely different from this one.More uncertain, yes. More challenging,...
11/05/2026

There's a version of your next year that looks completely different from this one.

More uncertain, yes. More challenging, definitely. But the kind of year you'll still be talking about a decade from now — because of what it asked of you and what you found out you were capable of.

Our international volunteering programme is 10 months. Training in Europe, project work in Africa or Asia, and a final month to process everything before you come home.

Our July team still has spots available. If something in you has been saying yes for a while, maybe it's time to listen. 💚

✈️ Find out more and fill in the form at humanavolunteers.org

International development experience looks good on a CV. But that's not really the point.Our volunteers come back with c...
07/05/2026

International development experience looks good on a CV. But that's not really the point.

Our volunteers come back with cross-cultural communication skills, project management experience, and a practical understanding of how development systems work — all of which are genuinely valuable in a professional context.

But what they tend to talk about more is harder to quantify: the ability to sit with ambiguity, to adapt without a playbook, to work effectively within communities and systems that operate very differently from anything they'd encountered before.

Those skills don't come from a course. They come from 10 months of showing up and figuring it out.

Our July team is still forming. If this sounds like the kind of experience you've been looking for, we'd love to hear from you.

🔗 humanavolunteers.org

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