Free volunteering opportunities 🆓


Female hiker with a gray backpack and red sleeping mat looking out over a desert valley with mountains in the distance. Quote reads, “Distance yourself for a bit. You’ll realize a lot.”

In this section you can find free volunteering opportunities abroad.

What does free mean?

It means that the hosts and the organisations featured on this page do not charge any participation fees for the volunteering experience. They offer free food and accommodation, usually in exchange for 4 to 5 hours of voluntary help per day, similar to the WWOOF philosophy.

However, keep in mind that the hosts will not pay for your travel costs (flight, train, etc.), and they cannot cover your visa or provide invitation letters.

Also, no monthly stipend is offered*.

If you are looking for projects that include a monthly stipend or pocket money, you can explore these sections:

FREE VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITIES 🆓

This page shows some of the latest free volunteering opportunities abroad. To see more volunteer projects, click on “Older posts” below. Would you like to feature your volunteering opportunity here? Feel free to add your listing 📝✍️

Sweden, ranch, horses, volunteer, Douglas

Help on my farm in Sweden 🇸🇪

Safari, giraffe, Africa, Serengeti, zebra, wild life, animals

Volunteer and support non-vulnerable children in Arusha, Tanzania 🇹🇿

ecovillage, eco-village, Portugal, community, intentional community, volunteering, volunteer, voluntouring, voluntourism, circle, sociocracy, tribe, alternative living, eco life

Tribojam Community and Events: come and volunteer in Portugal 🇵🇹

volunteers, goats, volunteering, exchange, food and accommodation, farm life, eco-center, wool work

Join a small, natural, family farm in the mountains in Gouveia, Portugal

volunteer in Siena, Alberto Inglesi, Italy, sculptor, food and accommodation, hospitality exchange, au pair, learn italian for free

Volunteer at a sculptor’s home in Siena, Italy 🇮🇹 🇪🇺

hospitality exchnage in Tuscany, Italy, food and accommodation, free, voluntouring, voluntourism

Help with olive picking & dry stone wall building in Tuscany, Italy

wwoof, Scotland, wwoofing, voluntouring, volunteering, volunteer, exchange, food and accommodation

Stay in a rural Scottish Church and help us in our garden/woodland at the church hillock

volunteer, exchange, project, Jordan, food and accommodation, spirituality, meditation, yoga, camps

Volunteer as Yoga Teachers for the Desert Retreat Camp in Wadi Rum, Jordan 🇯🇴

Bronze Icarus statue near the Temple of Concordia in Agrigento’s Valley of the Temples, Sicily, Italy - highlighting ancient Greek heritage, volunteering projects, hospitality exchange, and voluntourism opportunities.

Hospitality exchange in the Sicilian hinterland 🇮🇹 🇪🇺

Group of international volunteers and guests celebrating at Vagamundo Hostel in La Palma, gathered around a table with food and festive decorations, under a wall sign with the hostel’s name.

Looking for volunteers to join us in La Palma (Canary Islands)

volunteering in Tuscany - meditation retreat

Volunteer at Villa Vindravana Meditation and Yoga retreat center in Tuscany, Italy

Costa Rica, indigenous project, volunteer, voluntouring, team, volunteers, volunteer programs, anthropology,

Volunteer in an Indigenous Community in Costa Rica

PREFECO, Morelia, Mexico, cultural exchange, food and accommodation, pocket money, language

Fully covered language exchange in Morelia, Mexico 🪅

A group of Opus Gothique volunteers sit under a stone arch at a medieval-style building site in rural France, with two dogs resting in front

Volunteer and be a part of a team helping to build a Medieval building in France 🇫🇷

A female volunteer at Stone oven house project in Piedmont, Italy, voluntouring, voluntourism, volunteering, hospitality exchange, helpx, free exchange, food and accommodation, artistic intentional community, ecovillages, eco people, living in the mountains

Join Stone Oven House, art residency in Italian Alps 🇮🇹

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