Habitat for Humanity Global Village
Weeklong international home-building service trips across dozens of countries, organized for school groups with a teacher leader, giving teens hands-on experience supporting affordable-housing construction abroad.
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Rustic Pathways Service Trips for Teens
Supervised one-to-three-week international service trips for teens ages 14-18 that combine conservation, education-support, or community-development projects with cultural-immersion travel and documented service hours.
Amigos de las Américas (AMIGOS) Summer Programs
A nonprofit that sends teens abroad for two-to-six-week summer service and cultural immersion trips across Latin America, where participants live with host families and lead community-driven service projects alongside local youth.
Teen Community Emergency Response Team (Teen CERT)
A FEMA-backed, nationwide emergency-preparedness training that certifies teens in disaster-response skills like triage, fire safety, and shelter support so they can assist their school and community during emergencies and drills.
Jane Goodall Institute's Roots & Shoots
Free, flexible youth action network active in all 50 states where students form chapters and design their own community projects addressing environmental, animal, or human-welfare issues using a simple four-step action model.
Wikitongues Youth Language Documentation Volunteering
A volunteer opportunity with the nonprofit Wikitongues, where students help record, transcribe, and archive oral histories and interviews with speakers of endangered and minority languages for a permanent public video archive.
Berkeley Senior Center Volunteer Program
A City of Berkeley program where volunteers help at the North and South Berkeley Senior Centers and Meals on Wheels office with front-desk work, meal service, groceries, and activities; teens under 18 may volunteer with adult supervision.