Service close to home and wherever life takes you.
Global Women in Service helps women connect with locally led service opportunities locally, elsewhere in your country, or abroad. Serve on your own or with a group, for a few hours or a longer commitment. We are developing our first pilot now.
Find a way to serve wherever you are.
Whether you want to serve near home or somewhere new, GWS works with local partners to develop meaningful volunteer opportunities. Together, we clarify the role, prepare participants, and create a welcoming experience rooted in what the community needs.
Find meaningful service
Explore community-identified opportunities locally, elsewhere in your country, or abroad, from hands-on projects to skills-based roles.
Connect with local hosts
Community partners and local hosts offer context, a point of contact, and a clearer path to participating responsibly.
Build relationships
One experience can grow into ongoing service, leadership, and friendship between women and communities.
Come for an afternoon. Find a longer path.
GWS is being designed for women with different amounts of time, skills, and interest. A first experience can stand on its own or become the beginning of something more.
A few hours
Join a project near home or while traveling, with a clear task and schedule.
Ongoing service
Return regularly, support a project remotely, or build a relationship with a host community.
Skills and leadership
Contribute professional skills, mentor, coordinate, or take ownership of a defined project.
Host and welcome
Women in local organizations can shape the work and welcome volunteers from nearby or farther away.
Starting with trusted community networks.
GWS is developing its first pilot with Rotary-connected communities and other local partners. Depending on partner interest and availability, a request could lead to a project with a community organization or a local Rotary club in your country or abroad. We plan to review each opportunity for local need, clear volunteer roles, host readiness, and a responsible participant experience.
The long-term vision includes trained women hosts, leadership learning, curated gatherings, and service relationships that continue beyond one visit. GWS is independent and is not a Rotary International program.
Service first. People always.
The opportunity should begin with a genuine local need and a defined role for volunteers. GWS is developing a standard for reviewing projects, preparing hosts and participants, and learning from the experience afterward.
- Locally led: the host organization identifies the work and remains responsible for the project.
- Clear expectations: tasks, time, costs, accessibility, qualifications, and support should be described before someone commits.
- A real welcome: participants should know who is expecting them and who to contact with a concern.
- Room to continue: feedback and follow-up can open a path into more service, friendship, or leadership.
Leadership training for hosts and participants, curated service gatherings, and future retreats are part of the developing vision.
Looking for a volunteer opportunity?
Have a location, cause, date, or group in mind? Send a request and GWS can explore a locally led opportunity with a community partner. This is an inquiry, not a booking; opportunities are subject to partner availability.
For yourself
Tell us where you want to serve, your interests and availability, and the time or skills you could offer.
Request for myself →For a group
Tell us where your workplace team, club, or friends want to serve, your group size, timing, interests, and budget if applicable.
Request for a group →These buttons open an email draft to hello@globalwomeninservice.org. Want updates without a specific request? Join the interest list.
Want to hear what comes next?
Join the interest list for future opportunities.
Share your location and interests through the short form. We’ll send updates as opportunities take shape. If you already have a location, date, or group in mind, send an opportunity request instead.