"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
- Margaret Mead

To really get close to the people and places you visit, you have to experience and see things from their perspectives. Alternative travel can be one of the most educational, inspiring, and exciting things you do in your lifetime. OneWorld U.S. has compiled a list of volunteer and travel opportunities offered by our nonprofit partners to make it easier for you to find something that matches your interests.

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> Resources for Responsible Travel
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o The Advocacy Project
The Advocacy Project promotes social justice by strengthening human rights advocacy. AP puts this mission into practice by identifying disempowered communities and working for those who advocate on their behalf. They offer fellowships that provide a way for graduate students to address some of the world's most pressing human rights issues directly from the frontlines. The "Fellows for Peace" work on a variety of projects centered around information collection, production, and dissemination with AP partner organizations all over the world. Click here to see the blogs that participants maintain while in the field.

o Global Exchange
Global Exchange is an international human rights organization dedicated to promoting social, economic and environmental justice around the world. They have successfully increased public awareness of root causes of injustice while building international partnerships and mobilizing for change. Their Reality Tours provide individuals the opportunity to understand issues beyond what is communicated by the mass media and gain a new vantage point from which to view and affect US foreign policy.

o Global Partners for Development
Global Partners for Development works in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. They organize a Global Partners’ Africa Friendship Tour, which offers experience with traditional singing, dancing, and grassroots community development in action. Travelers on their tours visit homes and schools, join in community celebrations, meet with community leaders, and are welcomed as partners and friends.

o Heifer International
Heifer International invites you to "Travel with a Purpose" and become part of their mission "to work with communities to end hunger, poverty and care for the earth". Participants meet Heifer staff in the country where they are visiting and are invited into the homes and lives of project partners. You'll celebrate the people who are using sustainable development to make a lifelong change in their lives and communities. For Study Tour information please go to www.heifer.org/studytours . If you have questions and/or would like to be on the data base for tour information please send a request to: studytours[@]heifer.org

o Lutheran World Relief
Lutheran World Relief seeks lasting solutions to poverty and injustice.
They offer Study Visits that are a 12-14 day journey towards understanding, relationship building and listening. LWR has sought to assist people in developing countries to find solutions to their problems from within their own communities and resources. Study visitors meet these people, see their innovations, encourage them, learn from them and return home impassioned and empowered to advocate on their behalf. You can also travel around the world with LWR Study Visit diaries without leaving your computer! To receive email updates relating to LWR study visits, click here.

o MADRE
MADRE is an international women's human rights organization that works in partnership with women's community-based groups in conflict areas worldwide. Their programs address issues of sustainable development, community improvement and women's health. MADRE sends Voyages with a Vision delegations to the communities of their sister organizations to gain a firsthand understanding of human rights struggles and facilitate an exchange of friendship and support between delegates and women and youth activists in the countries where they work.

o Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee advances human rights and social justice around the world, partnering with those who confront unjust power structures and mobilizing to challenge oppressive policies. UUSC advocates for the human right to water, labor and employment rights, civil liberties, and rights in humanitarian crises. UUSC's JustJourneys brings human rights advocates face to face with UUSC partners around the world to make visible the links between social justice struggles abroad and in their communities, and support a community of activists ready to transform the world.