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JoHo Works
Every year JoHo helps:
  • 250 people setting up a development project
  • 500 volunteers to protect wild life
  • 1,000 development projects getting help, volunteers or funding
  • 1,500 young people getting a job abroad
  • 2,500 entrepeneurs in developing countries with their business
  • 5,000 volunteers who are working there where it is needed
  • 25,000 students with their studies
  • 50,000 youngsters in developing countries to improve their future
  • 150,000 children in Africa, Asia and Latin america with a temporary teacher
  • 250,000 travellers to travel fair and sustainable
JoHo centers & Partners
Most JoHo centers & JoHo partners offer volunteer positions, internships and occasional paid jobs.

For special offers & all the JoHo centers

Argentina:
  • Buenos Aires
  • Bariloche
  • Esquina
Bolivia:
  • La Paz
Brazil:
  • Rio de Janeiro
  • Curitiba
Cambodja
  • Siem Reap
Canada
Chili:
  • Pucon
China:
  • Beijing
  • Yangshuo
  • Tibet
Costa Rica:
  • San Jose
  • Turrialba
Ecuador:
  • Quito
Ethiopia
Egypt:
  • Sinai
Gambia
Ghana:
  • Wa
  • Kumasi
Guatemala:
  • Antigua
Honduras:
  • Copan
India:
  • Pondicherry (Tamil Nadu)
Indonesia:
  • Lombok
  • Surabaya
Iran:
  • Yazd
Kenya:
  • Nairobi
  • Kilifi
  • Watamu
  • Malindi
Laos
Madagascar
Malawi:
  • Lilongwe
Mali:
  • Djenne
Namibia:
  • Windhoek
Netherlands:
  • Den Haag (hoofdkantoor)
  • Amsterdam
  • Leiden
  • Rotterdam
  • Groningen
  • Utrecht
Netherlands Antilles:
  • Saba
  • Willemstad
Nicaragua:
  • Granada
Panama:
  • Bocas del Toro
  • Boquete
Peru:
  • Lima
  • Cusco
  • Taray
  • Celendin
Sri Lanka:
  • Unawatuna
Surinam:
  • Paramaribo
Tanzania:
  • Dar es Salaam
  • Pugu Hills
  • Zanzibar
Thailand:
  • Phato (Southern-Thailand)
  • Hat Yai
Uganda:
  • Kampala
South Africa:
  • Capetown
  • Coffeebay (Wild Coast)
JoHo & The World Study Bank
The only bank that charges no interest,
but the effort to share your knowledge.

By offering free education to students in less developed countries through the internet, and by developing new effective (internet) study methods the World Study Bank believes that (higher) education will become more accessible to everyone.

The World Study Bank aims to create a worldwide e-learning community for the sharing of free knowledge. WSB specifically supports students in less developed countries to get access to knowledge that is easily and freely available in our western society. WSB is a network organisation in which users and suppliers of learning materials and methods connect via an internet-based platform. Our principle is a free, qualitative, objective and open exchange of knowlegde on the basis of voluntarity and equality. The suppliers and developers of content contribute on a voluntary basis.

World Study Bank is a neutral, ideal organisation (foundation) without a profit aim More Info

JoHo supports The World Study Bank

Volunteer your way around the world

This is a part of the International website of the JoHo Foundation. JoHo is an (inter-)national organization with the goal to set up as many support centers as possible, dealing with work, travel and international cooperation. The main focuses of the organization are passing on knowledge, promoting international contacts and awareness and giving advice.
Insurances Abroad

Volunteering abroad, getting an insurance can be a real hassle. JoHo is one of the few organizations that believes you should be able to choose from a range of advantageous and also more specialised insurances.

See insureyourwayaroundtheworld.com for:
  • International Travel Insurance for all nationalities
  • International Health Insurance for all nationalities
  • International Travel & Health Insurances for all nationalities
  • Insurances & JoHo
Working for Lodging & Food
For information on most of the underneeth mentioned jobs you will have to subscribe to our Abroad Services. They will provide you with the information needed.
  • Work for a Tibetan travelcompany
  • Work on farms all over the world
  • Ever wanted to live and work on a French Castle?
  • Stay in Rio and work with tourists and expats
Volunteering in Conservation
Eco resorts & Safaricamps

  • Kiboko Safari in Malawi is looking for assistants and a cook!
  • Find a new home in Zambia, live and work at a Safari-camp.

Working on Saba
JoHo Recruitment
JoHo recruits and mediates via an unique easy accessible method for organisations and institutions who are looking for young or entrepreneurial people.
  • Basic recruitment and / or selection of volunteers, trainee concerning the participate projects and organisations
  • Basic or extended recruitment and / or selections of employees: various of paid jobs (local) salary or free board and lodging
  • Support with recruiting of temporary replacement of management team members during holidays etc.
  • Support with recruiting people who are interested and able to support continuing a project or organisations, when the founder unexpected has to return to the country of residence or has to quit the project.

  • More information
JoHo CareMed
International Travel Insurance

  • for workers (vacation/temporary/voluntary) when they are participants of voluntary programs, internships, Work & Travel or other working programs.
  • JoHo CareMed offers worldwide coverage. You are thus also covered while travelling to several countries abroad, except for your home country where the coverage expires automatically.
  • CareMed International Travel Insurance offers worldwide coverage. You are thus also covered while travelling to several countries abroad, except for your home country where the coverage expires automatically.
  • Our suggestion: Quick and convenient online enrolment – from anywhere and anytime. You can print out a confirmation of insurance coverage after having enrolled on-line.
  • Sports are covered (except high-risk and professional sports)
One of the few full international insurances for travellers abroad
Volunteering
Aviva
Aviva offers international volunteers the chance to make a vital contribution to underprivileged children and endangered wildlife while having a hands-on, life changing experience in South Africa. Aviva also has an exciting range of courses, tours and activities that you can include during your stay in South Africa.
  • Aviva offers a 10% discount for JoHo members on volunteer project fees, tours and workshops.

Below a great short movie of an Aviva Volunteer in Cape Town:

Connectie Bolivia
JoHo partner in La Paz


Connectie Bolivia offers a lot of opportunities for Volunteerwork and Internships in Bolivia
  • There's work for for volunteers who want to give English classes for various projects.
  • There are possibilities to work within the following fields of work: education, healthcare, social work, childcare, sports and recreation. You can work with children, adults, disabled people, seniors, women and families.
  • During your stay in Bolivia we can find a host family for you to live with. This is the best way to learn more about the Bolivian culture and to learn more of the Spanish language.It is also possible to find a place to live alone or with friends or share an apartement with other volunteers
  • Our contacts can organise all sorts of trips and tours for you: visit the salt flats in Uyuni or the mines in Potosi.
Daktari South Africa
(Advertentie)


Daktari wants to educate and inspire children to care for their environment through the medium of a wildlife orphanage. Volunteers and staff supplement the school curriculum by giving hands-on education in existing school subjects, and at the same time stimulate environmental awareness.
Din Dang Thailand
(Advertentie)

The DinDang Natural Building Center aims to promote the natural and traditional techniques of clay house building in the area of Phato in southern Thailand. Sustainable and environmentally friendly!
  • 5% discount for JoHo members on the project fee
Amaidi

Amaidi offers: volunteer opportunities, accommodation in the Amaidi Guesthouse (it has a homely touch!) Amaidi could also organise a homestay for you, city trips & tailor-made trips. Amaidi facilitates a JoHo support center.
Amaidi offers a discount for JoHo members on overnight stays and volunteer fee.
Urpi Sonqocha
(Advertentie)

Urpi Sonqocha works with Peruvian children who live in situations of extreme poverty and unstable family situations. As a volunteer you can work directly with our children, live together with them and offer them emotional support.
Celas Maya
(Advertentie)

Celas Maya volunteering and Spanish school
Celas Maya works with many organizations in Quetzaltenango and throughout the region dedicated to activities that improve the lives of Guatemalans. Celas Maya also offers language study (mostly Spanish & Mayan dialects) in an environment of rich linguistic diversity.
ICUganda
ICUganda in Kampala offers several services:
  • Guesthouse & camping
  • Campertours with the possibility to visit projects.
  • Meeting place for local & international NGO's to share knowledge and experiences.
Butterfly4volunteers
(Advertentie)

We, Butterfly4volunteers, work as butterflies with volunteers from countries all over the world, offering assistance in the exchange of knowledge, skills and ideas. We hope to contribute to meaningful developments, improving the living standard of the less privileged and giving them a chance for a better life.
Arte Accion

Arte Accion is a Honduran association that organizes socio-cultural activities for children and young adults. In Copán Ruinas we offer since 1999 art, photography, video and drama workshops to children in town and in the rural communities.
  • Arte Acción Copán Ruinas works with volunteers from all over the world who come to help with art projects for children in Copán Ruinas or in the surrounding villages. We can always use the help of enthusiastic, independent and energetic volunteers.
  • Do you want to do voluntary work but you do not speak Spanish? Arte Accion can arrange a Spanish course for you.
  • Arte Accion's local partners can organize all kinds of trips and tours for you weather it be horseback riding or a coffee tour.
  • Arte Accion facilitates a JoHo support center
Ghana
See below for a great short movie of Sebastiaan Knoops & Anke Geertsma, volunteers with JoHo Xplore in Wa with Child Support. One of the by JoHo supported projects.


More info for visiting this JoHo center: mail to wa@joho.nl