A Broader View Volunteers

A Broader View Volunteers (ABV) is a family owned Non-Profit Charity with over 12 years of experience specializing in socially responsible volunteer travel programs worldwide. Over 245 program options available focused on social welfare, healthcare and environmental programs. From Asia to Africa and throughout Latin America, ABV offers customizes placement lasting from one week to three months.

Our History

A Broader View Volunteers is a registered 501c(3) nonprofit charity located in the USA. Our organization was founded in 2007 and is based in Pennsylvania. Our charity # is 26-0594308 With a love for humankind, and a motivated spirit to help others, A Broader View was created on the belief that one person can make a difference in the lives of others.

Our US office is operated by an enthusiastic staff with almost 40 years combined travel and hospitality experience. Our projects are arranged for volunteers to live with, and work side by side local people in a range of fields such as orphanage work, day care, community development, teaching and much more. We offer travelers the opportunity to explore a new country while taking part in meaningful, rewarding service work.

Our Mission

A Broader View Volunteer’s mission is to provide developing countries around the world with significant volunteer programs that both aid the neediest communities and forge a lasting bond between those volunteering and those they have helped. A Broader View is a nonprofit organization with no religious affiliations.

We believe that the best way to learn about cultural differences is to experience it first-hand. Volunteering to do meaningful work is not only beneficial to the community, it is self-rewarding. Returnees usually state that their lives have been changed forever.

Our Goals: We hope to enlighten and educate the minds of those who choose to make that journey of caring to a different culture so unlike their own. Volunteering in foreign countries helps promote communication and trust between nations, and provides everyone involved an opportunity to expand their global horizons.

ABV Impact: A Broader View Volunteers has been organizing humanitarian programs since 2007. In that time, we have sent thousands of volunteers to over 200 project sites in 24 different countries. The majority of these volunteers have assisted in the daily care, education and health support of disadvantaged families and orphans. A good chunk of volunteers have served in the medical and dental arena – in public clinics, community hospitals, outreach efforts.

Numerous children and adults have been instructed by ABV teaching volunteers. ABV volunteers have aided in the care and rescue of sea turtle and the conservation efforts throughout Latin America. ABV volunteers have helped to build schools, play grounds, fresh water wells. They have participated in community outreach programs to educate about HIV/Aids, provide oral vaccinations and distribute medicine and food, and solar lamps. In the past 8 years A Broader View Volunteers’ raised and distributed over $3.0 million in donations worldwide. We continue to be a part of the positive change within many communities around the world.

Our Values

Since our inception in 2007, A Broader View Volunteers has raised and donated over three million dollars (+$3M) to our overseas partners. This money has been used to construct buildings, renovate orphanages, install water tanks, provide food and clothing to thousands of orphans, and have brought much needed medical aid to rural communities worldwide. None of that would have been possible without the manpower and skills THAT made by our participants.

What We Do

A Broader View Volunteers is a registered 501c(3) nonprofit charity located in the USA. Our organization was founded in 2007 and is based in Pennsylvania. Our charity # is 26-0594308 With a love for humankind, and a motivated spirit to help others, A Broader View was created on the belief that one person can make a difference in the lives of others. Our US office is operated by an enthusiastic staff with almost 20 years combined travel and hospitality experience. Our projects are arranged for volunteers to live with, and work side by side local people in a range of fields such as orphanage work, day care, community development, teaching and much more. We offer travelers the opportunity to explore a new country while taking part in meaningful, rewarding service work.

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