Volunteer with Bridges to Prosperity!

Are you that someone...?

"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito in the room." - The Dalai Lama

Volunteer opportunities are available to the right candidates in our primary country programs. Most opportunities involve camping at remote rural bridge construction sites and involve working with the villagers performing manual and skilled labor. A typical trip cost runs $25-35 USD per day plus international airfare and the cost of camping gear and shots.

Most below documents that are in pdf format and require Adobe Reader.

Volunteer Interest Formis a Word.doc

Volunteer Program Guide*

Volunteer Program Honduras Appendix*

 Volunteer Program Zambia Appendix

Nicaragua Appendix

Bolivia Appendix

Generic Packing Ideas and Advice*

Packing List Appendix

Basic Packing Information

Basic Medical Information

Volunteer Liability Release Form*

Consolidated Volunteer Program Guide
The Consolidated Volunteer Program Guide includes the * items that are listed above.
Available by request, our volunteers can obtain a country specific appendix to this guide. This country specific appendix provides in depth information for each country we have volunteer opportunities in.
Also available by request, is a detailed information package about each bridge site open to volunteers, including hotel and other relevant information. And lastly available upon request, for each bridge site are design profiles with the appropriate engineered drawings needed by each volunteer to prepare for their trip.

What to Expect

• Living and working with the community with very minimal outside contact
• Coordinating and assisting with physical labor, including excavation and other similar unglamorous tasks. Flexible and unpredictable schedule
• Responsibility and decision-making capabilities
• With no translators provided, language skills are highly encouraged
• Less than 10% of time spent with other B2P personnel
• Frustration and fatigue
• A desire to go back to help, again and again.

It won't be easy, but it will be worth it.

Professionals can get help with travel costs through a partnership between Volunteers For Prosperity (through USAID office) and GlobalGiving. VFP provides grants to partner organizations to assist skilled Americans who wish to volunteer abroad. VFP Service grants (ranging from $500 to $1000) are individual, non-renewable and are designated to offset travel, insurance and local living costs of short-term international volunteer assignments. Grants match at least an equal amount of funds raised by volunteers locally. B2P has joined as a Volunteer Partner Organization (VPO) so that we can sponsor our members in volunteer opportunities and disburse the funds they raise.

For more information on our volunteer opportunities, please contact

To Our Volunteers:

"There is no such thing as a simple act of compassion or an inconsequential act of service. Everything we do for another person has infinite consequences. Every action gives rise to a ripple effect, just as a pebble that is tossed into a pond sends out wave after wave, widening and covering more and more space."

Caroline Myss

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