Greenforce is an international non-profit organisation which recruits volunteers to work on humanitarian, community and conservation projects overseas. They also offer opportunities to teach English, animal welfare programmes and paid working positions.
Greenforce has programmes currently running in over 14 countries, including Bahamas, USA, Ecuador, Spain, Egypt, Tanzania, South Africa, India, Nepal, Tibet, China, Thailand, Fiji and Australia.
The opportunities Greenforce can offer include working with great white sharks, looking after endangered pandas, working in orphanages, living with Maasai tribes on the Maasai Mara desert in Africa, living on a tropical island and undertaking marine conservation work, working on cattle ranches in the outback of Australia, teaching English and many more.
They have worked on behalf of various governments, the Red Cross, the United Nations, African Wildlife Foundation (AWF), World Wildlife Foundation (WWF), UNESCO, Bahamas National Trust, and The Wildlife Conservation Society of Fiji, and are currently one of the leading gap year providers.
All expeditions are carbon neutral, as is the organisation, and last year Greenforce invested £336,000 into the local communities where they work.