Short-term/ intercultural organisations engage in unskilled work, providing a service to a community. The volunteer is expected to participate in and benifit from intercultural learning. The sending organisations may be for-profit or not-for-profit. When you are searching the database, this term is used to cover all organisations that:
- offer short-term volunteer positions (from one week to one year);
- do not require that volunteers have specific educational/professional qualifications;
- are not primarily concerned with conservation/environmental work (a separate category is provided for these organisations)