Some of our achievements - in numbers

These numbers show a few of our achievements up to now. We cannot do justice, though, to the wonderful work done by so many Projects Abroad volunteers who have given up their time to work overseas in the last 20 years, but we thank them all.

28The number of developing countries that we work with across 5 continents.
50,000 +The number of Projects Abroad volunteers to date.
40The number of different nationalities of our volunteers.
320The number of schools, language-centres and other organisations that have benefited from our Teaching projects. As well as Conversational English, volunteers have also taught French, German, Maths, Art, Drama, Music and IT!
280The number of orphanages, disabled-centres and other organisations that have benefited from our Care Projects.
22,000The number of children we’ve helped look after in 108 orphanages.
10The number of Conservation & Environment destinations we have.
600,000The estimated combined number of Olive Ridley, Leatherback, Hawksbill, Loggerhead and Green Turtles we have protected on Conservation Projects in Mexico and Peru.
476The number of hectares of Amazon Rainforest granted Projects Abroad to operate as an ecological reserve in Peru - the 'Reserva Ecologica Taricaya'
(please visit: www.volunteer-conservation-peru.org)
137The height (in feet) of our canopy walkway at 'Taricaya'.
8The number of years our Green Village Conservation Project has been running, working to increase awareness and practice of organic agriculture and sustainable development in Southern India.
47The number of areas our Medicine volunteers work in, from Acupuncture to X-ray!