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Similar programs to the Peace Corp?

What traveling programs are similar to the peace corp but pays instead of a volunteer basis?

  • I'm debt free, fresh out of high school, i love to travel, and id like to make some money while being in a foreign country while helping people or doing something productive. any programs similar to the peach corps that could pay unlike the peace corp?

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    There is a listing of the more-than-30 member organizations of the International Volunteers Program Association (IVPA) that is a good place to find reputable volunteer-for-a-fee programs -- programs where you don't need to have much experience in order to participate, and the placements are just for a few weeks or months: http://www.volunteerinternational.org/ Here's one specific org recommendation: Unite For Sight, which workes through partner eye clinics and communitie to create eye disease-free communities. "While helping the community, volunteers are in a position to witness and draw their own conclusions about the failures and inequities of global health systems. It broadens their view of what works, and what role they can have to insure a health system that works for everyone..." This program was featured on CNN International. Volunteers, both skilled and unskilled, are 18 years and older, and there is no upper age limit. It is obligatory for accepted volunteers to purchase insurance coverage through Unite for Sight's recommended provider, and volunteers are responsible for all travel arrangements, visa vaccine requirements, lodging, airfare, food, and any additional expenses. http://www.uniteforsight.org/intl_volunteer/ There are organizations that do pay for overseas work -- but not someone fresh out of high school. Why would someone pay for you when they can pay a local person who desperately needs the income for his or her family? Here is a web site that can help you learn more about the skills and experience desired by long-term placement organizations, or organizations that don't charge volunteers but require volunteers to be *highly*-skilled and experienced, and how you can start to gain such experience locally, wherever you are now. http://www.coyotecommunications.com/volunteer/international.html

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The job you describe doesn't exist. It is too good to be true. Anyone who offers you high-paying employment abroad, with just a high school diploma, is going to lure you into prostitution or take his "placement fee" and vanish. If you had a college degree you could teach English as a foreign language in a number of places. With just a high school diploma, your options are the armed services, airline stewardess, chamber maid on a cruise ship or a similar job in the travel industry. The Peace Corps pays what they call a living allowance. You don't starve, but you don't get rich. My daughter is a PCV in Peru. She earns $300 a month. Jayne above me is right. No one would hire an American high school graduate to work overseas when they could get a local person who already knew the language to work for 1/2 to 1/3 of the amount. Many Peace Corps positions are upriver and back country for a reason; college graduates in Kenya, Peru and the rest of the developing world like the big cities, where there is night life, a large pool of singles, good shopping, paved roads and good health care. They are remarkably like their counterparts in the developing world in that respect.

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