At Youth Works Hub we track every European Solidarity Corps call as it opens, and this batch is the one most people do not know exists: twelve fully funded placements outside Europe, in Nepal, Morocco, Ecuador, Peru, Uganda, Vietnam, Bolivia, Guatemala and Ghana. The programme is funded by the European Union but the projects are not confined to the continent, and these nine countries are where the work gets least attention and needs volunteers most. Travel, accommodation, food, insurance and monthly pocket money are covered exactly as they are on a placement in Italy or Portugal. Eight of the twelve are marked as soon as possible, which in practice means the host is filling the slot now rather than in three months. If the programme itself is new to you, what the European Solidarity Corps actually is takes five minutes, and the wider picture of EU funded volunteering explains why the EU pays for a volunteer to spend a year in Kathmandu or Kampala.
Half of this batch is about women and girls, and that is not a coincidence in how these partnerships are built. In Nepal you would document the daily fight of single women for rights that are still questioned. In Bolivia there are two separate placements attached to four decades of feminist organising: one turns interviews, testimonies and archives into a publication and a documentary, the other chases funding calls so the work can keep running at all. Peru wants workshops on rights, transparency and gender equality in a neighbourhood NGO staffed mostly by the people who live there. Morocco combines a centre for young people in difficulty with workshops for women in a former mining town. And Ghana has two placements on leadership, employability and economic independence for young people and women. The Ecuador placement is open strictly to women volunteers, because the work is inside a shelter for girls who survived abuse and trafficking.
The rest of the batch splits between disability, humanitarian practice and measurement. Uganda runs a centre that builds its own low cost assistive devices and needs support across therapy, classes, vocational training, sport and home visits. Vietnam is a village built for young people and veterans affected by Agent Orange, where adapted play is the therapy and the garden is part of the week. Guatemala is the most technical listing here: safeguarding and PSEAH work, which is the quiet policy layer that stops humanitarian programmes from harming the people they exist to serve. Peru's second placement is a measurement job, interviewing residents and writing the impact report on thousands of square metres of community parks. Every one of these twelve is open to around thirty sending countries, which makes this the most widely accessible batch we have published this month. Check which countries can apply if you are unsure whether yours is on the list.
Funding
According to the European Commission, European Solidarity Corps volunteering covers travel through fixed distance band contributions, accommodation for the full duration, food or a food allowance, free group insurance, language support, a mentor, and monthly pocket money paid directly to you. The distance band system is what makes these intercontinental placements viable: the contribution rises with the distance travelled, so a placement in Nepal or Bolivia draws a far higher travel contribution than one inside Europe. Pocket money is set per host country. You are aged 18 to 30, you receive no salary, and you never pay a participation fee at any stage. A project asking you for money is not a real European Solidarity Corps project.
In This Batch
1- 🇳🇵 Nepal · Women's Rights and Media · 📅 As soon as possible!
2- 🇧🇴 Bolivia · Documentation and Film · 📅 As soon as possible!
3- 🇲🇦 Morocco · Youth and Women's Centre · 📅 As soon as possible!
4- 🇵🇪 Peru · Rights and Advocacy · 📅 As soon as possible!
5- 🇪🇨 Ecuador · Shelter Support · 📅 As soon as possible!
6- 🇧🇴 Bolivia · Fundraising · 📅 As soon as possible!
7- 🇺🇬 Uganda · Disability Support · 📅 As soon as possible!
8- 🇻🇳 Vietnam · Therapeutic Play · 📅 As soon as possible!
9- 🇬🇹 Guatemala · Safeguarding · 📅 11 Oct
10- 🇬🇭 Ghana · Digital Literacy · 📅 01 Dec
11- 🇬🇭 Ghana · Youth and Women Empowerment · 📅 15 Dec
12- 🇵🇪 Peru · Environment and Impact · 📅 31 Dec
What's in this batch:
12 Fully Funded ESC Placements · 9 Countries · 3 Continents · 8 Open Right Now
🌱 ESC Volunteering Opportunities
1. 🇳🇵 ESC Volunteering in Nepal 📣 Communication for Women's Rights and Single Women 👩
📅 Deadline: As soon as possible!
Single women in Nepal are still fighting for rights that get questioned daily, and their stories need someone to tell them properly. You will create content, run interviews, document campaigns and shape how a women's rights organisation is seen. Open to applicants from Türkiye, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Bulgaria, Sweden and 26 more countries.
2. 🇧🇴 ESC Volunteering in Bolivia 🎥 Women's Rights Documentation and Communication 📖
📅 Deadline: As soon as possible!
Four decades of feminist organising deserve a proper record. You will build a publication and a documentary out of interviews, testimonies and archives, sitting down with the women who made all of it happen. Open to applicants from Türkiye, Italy, Spain, Slovakia, Iceland and 26 more.
3. 🇲🇦 ESC Volunteering in Morocco 🤝 Empowering Youth and Women in Local Communities 🌟
📅 Deadline: As soon as possible!
In a former mining town, a centre for young people in difficulty and a set of workshops for women hold the community together. You will run art, IT and music sessions, support school and language work, and raise awareness on child protection. Open to applicants from France, Germany, Malta, Iceland, Slovakia and 26 more.
4. 🇵🇪 ESC Volunteering in Peru ⚖️ Community Empowerment and Local Rights Advocacy 🤝
📅 Deadline: As soon as possible!
An NGO staffed mostly by the people who live in the neighbourhood wants to level up. You will lead workshops on rights, transparency and gender equality, organise its governance documents and jump into community projects whenever hands are needed. This is organisational strengthening work as much as it is community work. Open to applicants from Germany, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Cyprus, Portugal and 26 more.
5. 🇪🇨 ESC Volunteering in Ecuador 🦋 Social Empowerment for Girls Surviving Abuse and Trafficking 💪
📅 Deadline: As soon as possible!
A shelter for girls who survived abuse and trafficking, and work that asks for steadiness: workshops on rights and gender violence, company through daily routines and medical appointments, and the slow road back to a future they choose themselves. Open strictly to women volunteers. Open to applicants from Türkiye, Poland, Sweden, Finland, North Macedonia and 26 more.
6. 🇧🇴 ESC Volunteering in Bolivia 💰 Fundraising Assistant for Women's Rights 👩
📅 Deadline: As soon as possible!
Even the best feminist work needs money to keep running. You will track down funding calls, draft proposals and budgets, sit in on partner meetings and make the projects visible enough to actually get funded. This is the rare volunteering placement that leaves you with a grant writing portfolio. Open to applicants from Türkiye, France, Poland, Romania, Lithuania and 26 more.
7. 🇺🇬 ESC Volunteering in Uganda ♿ Supporting Children and Youth With Disabilities 🤲
📅 Deadline: As soon as possible!
Children and young people with disabilities, their families, and a centre that builds low cost assistive devices itself. You will support therapy sessions, classes, vocational training, sport and home visits out in the community. Open to applicants from Türkiye, Romania, Malta, Denmark, Croatia and 26 more.
8. 🇻🇳 ESC Volunteering in Vietnam 🧸 Therapeutic Play and Social Inclusion for Youth With Disabilities 💛
📅 Deadline: As soon as possible!
At a village built for young people and veterans affected by Agent Orange, play is the therapy. You will run adapted games, movement and creative sessions, give one to one support, and get your hands into the garden every week. Open to applicants from Türkiye, Bulgaria, Germany, Netherlands, Cyprus and 26 more.
9. 🇬🇹 ESC Volunteering in Guatemala 🛡️ Safeguarding and PSEAH Support in Humanitarian Action 🤝
📅 Deadline: 11 October 2026
Safeguarding is the quiet work that stops humanitarian programmes from harming the people they are meant to serve. You will help build the policy, train staff and partners, and keep the reporting structure alive in the field. The most technical placement in this batch, and the one that transfers most directly into a humanitarian career. Open to applicants from Germany, Ireland, Malta, Hungary, Czechia and 26 more.
10. 🇬🇭 ESC Volunteering in Ghana 💻 Digital Literacy Advisor for Youth and Women 📱
📅 Deadline: 1 December 2026
Without digital skills, information and jobs simply stay out of reach. You will design and deliver digital literacy training for young people and women, build learning resources and weave tech into existing vocational programmes. Open to applicants from Czechia, Estonia, Italy, Lithuania, Greece and 26 more.
11. 🇬🇭 ESC Volunteering in Ghana 👩🏾 Youth and Women Empowerment Assistant 🌱
📅 Deadline: 15 December 2026
Leadership, employability and economic independence for young people and women everyone else wrote off. You will motivate participants, run community outreach, support vocational training and track what genuinely works. Open to applicants from Türkiye, Bulgaria, Latvia, Ireland, Luxembourg and 26 more.
12. 🇵🇪 ESC Volunteering in Peru 🌳 Environmental and Social Impact Study of Community Parks 📋
📅 Deadline: 31 December 2026
Thousands of square metres of parks built in neighbourhoods that badly needed safe ground, and now someone has to measure what actually changed. You will interview, run workshops, write the impact report and help shape the next park. A research placement disguised as a volunteering one. Open to applicants from Türkiye, Greece, Portugal, Netherlands, Cyprus and 26 more.
Nine countries across three continents, and a batch that answers a question most people never think to ask: does the European Solidarity Corps send volunteers outside Europe at all? It does, and these twelve are the proof. Latin America carries five placements across Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Guatemala. Africa carries three, in Ghana and Uganda, with Morocco making a fourth on the Mediterranean edge. Asia carries two, in Nepal and Vietnam. What unites them is not geography but the kind of organisation involved: small, local, deeply embedded, and usually running on far less money than the work deserves.
Choose by what you can actually do rather than by the map. If you can write, film or edit, Nepal and the Bolivian documentation placement are built for you. If you can read a funding call and draft a budget, the second Bolivia listing is unusual and genuinely useful afterwards. If you have any background in social work, therapy or education, Uganda, Vietnam and Ecuador are the obvious three, though Ecuador accepts women volunteers only. If you want a humanitarian career, Guatemala is the placement that puts a real safeguarding line on your CV. If you are comfortable with data and interviews, Peru's park study is a research job in everything but name. And if you want breadth rather than depth, Morocco and the two Ghana placements move you across several programme areas in a week.
Timing is the part that decides this. Eight of the twelve are marked as soon as possible, which means the host organisation is recruiting right now and the listing can close the day it fills. Guatemala runs to 11 October. The two Ghana placements and the Peru park study stay open into December, which makes them the realistic choice if your paperwork is not ready or you need a longer run at the visa. Selection sits with the host and its supporting organisation, and intercontinental placements are read more carefully than European ones because the cost of sending the wrong person is higher. A specific, honest motivation letter that names this project and this country beats a polished general one every time, and the ten most common ESC application mistakes covers the patterns that cost qualified people their place. Before you commit, read exactly what the funding does and does not cover, because intercontinental travel makes the distance bands matter more than usual. Youth Works Hub lists the deadline and the full sending country list on every placement above.
Would you rather learn a skill in a week than volunteer for months? Youth Works Hub also lists funded Erasmus+ training courses and youth exchanges across Europe → Erasmus+
