overseas service work

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<p>For quite a while now, I've had minor interest in pursuing an opportunity to do service work overseas. I think it will be good and valuable experience. In one of my classes, a inclass speaker once came to talk about a program that helped a village in Africa build a human powered water displacement pump to basically help the village get a working faucet.</p>

<p>Has anybody done something like that? If so, then I'd like to know some of the general details that I should know about. Comments too.</p>

<p>P.S. I've done some minor volunteering before for the resume. But now it's the real deal, I'm doing it for the experience, and I don't believe in having to starting in something small first, like the soup kitchen.</p>

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<p>Check out the Peace Corps website. They require a college degree and a two-year commitment in most cases. (If you don’t like “roughing it,” Peace Corps isn’t for you.)</p>

<p>If you want short-term volunteer work, there are some church groups that do the type of work you mentioned.</p>