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Volunteers


Becoming a volunteer

Volunteering in your own country

National Societies recruit volunteers to carry out tasks that directly or indirectly help vulnerable people. Each National Society has different volunteer programmes, and requires different skills to make these programmes effective.

To become a volunteer with the Red Cross/Red Crescent, you need to contact the nearest branch of the National Society in your country for details of the programmes that they run and their current needs for volunteers.

If you do not have an address for the nearest branch of your National Society, please look in the directory for the national contact details of your Society. Otherwise, Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies should be listed in local telephone books.

International volunteers

The International Federation does not take on volunteers directly for its international operations. This is due to the nature of the Federation's international programmes, which are always run in cooperation with its National Societies.

As the Federation does not run its own volunteering programmes, please do not contact us directly with enquiries.

The International Federation does not run exchange programmes between National Societies either. However, it is possible that individual National Societies may run exchange programmes for people wishing to volunteer to work in another country. Please contact your own National Society to see if it is involved in such a programme.

If you do not have an address for the nearest branch of your National Society, please look in the directory for the national contact details of your Society. Otherwise, Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies should be listed in local telephone books.

Thank you for your interest!