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Europe is one of the seven continents of Earth which, in this case, is more a cultural and political distinction than a physiographic one, leading to various perspectives about Europe's borders. Physically and geologically, Europe is a subcontinent or large peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia and west of Asia.
Europe is bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Mediterranean Sea, and–according to the traditional geographic definition–to the southeast by the waterways adjoining the Mediterranean to and including the Black Sea, and the Caucasus Mountains (in Caucasia). Europe's eastern frontier is vague, but has traditionally been given as the divide of the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea to the southeast. The Urals are considered by most to be a geographical and tectonic landmark separating Asia from Europe.
Europe is the world's second-smallest continent in terms of area, covering about 10,390,000 square kilometres (4,010,000 sq mi) or 2.0% of the Earth's surface. The only continent smaller is Australia. In terms of population, it is the third-largest continent (Asia and Africa are larger) with a population of more than 710,000,000, or about 11% of the world's population.
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4EVS - Meeting place for people involved in the EVS (European Voluntary Service) program. Allows volunteers to share their experience and ideas with other EVS volunteers. Also contains EVS news and updates.
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Alliance of European Voluntary Service Organisations - Represents national organisations running international voluntary service projects, to promote community development, intercultural understanding and peace. Includes information on member associations, with links.
Camphill Communities of Ireland - Communities creating a comprehensive, therapeutic and supportive environment where people with special needs can live and make their home together with volunteers and voluntary helpers and reach their full potential.
Meta Description: [ Camphill Communities of Ireland are life-sharing communities creating a comprehensive, therapeutic and supportive environment where people with special needs can live and make their home together with volunteers and voluntary helpers and reach their full potential. Many volunteers come to help in... ]
DRH Movement - Danish organization training development instructors for Humana People-to-People development projects. Includes articles by volunteers in a variety of situations.
Meta Description: [ Humanitarian Organisation ]
DRH Norway - One World Volunteers Institute - Runs a volunteer development program, recruiting and training volunteers, sending them on volunteer placements and then working with them to record and disseminate information on their return.
Meta Description: [ ...Den Reisende Høgskole in Norway concentrates on Education for Global Development, and welcomes you to join one of our unique and international programs, as a Development Instructor... ]
EIL - Cultural and Educational Travel - Aims to bring people from different cultures together to improve international understanding. Places individuals into community and volunteer programmes, usually in homestays, where they share the lives of national inhabitants of the visited country.
Meta Description: [ Gap Year Placements, European Voluntary Service + Homestays UK. EIL UK offer advice and listings on high school exchanges, spanish language courses, community service abroad, spanish lessons abroad and volunteer opportunities abroad. We offer advice on Volunterring in ecuador, south africa, nepal... ]
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Internationella Arbetslag (IAL) - Swedish branch of Service Civil International (SCI) working for an ecological and multicultural society characterized by solidarity, non-violence and understanding between people. Information on workcamp and exchange programs. (in English and Swedish)
Meta Description: [ Internationella Arbetslag (IAL) är en partipolitiskt obunden freds- och solidaritetsförening som anordnar volontärläger i Sverige och förmedlar volontärer internationellt. ]
Jesuit European Volunteers - Information about a programme for men and women willing to offer a year's service, living in community, directly with the poor and marginalized. Includes links to national programmes.
MAR - Bulgarian Youth Alliance for Development - Organizes youth workcamps in Bulgaria with many volunteers from around the world, focusing on youth and democracy-building.
Meta Description: [ MAR organises youth workcamps in Bulgaria and welcomes hundreds of volunteers from all over the world. MAR is involved in many different youth projects related to building democracy on the changing Balkans and mainly in Bulgaria. ]
NABUUR - Online volunteering opportunities. Local communities in developing countries get a Village on this web site. Visitors are invited to become virtual neighbors of these Villages and to help solve the problems of the local communities.
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SNV Netherlands Development Organisation - Supports organisations in the South committed to fighting poverty and improving local governance. SNV provides technical and organisational expertise, and support in change processes.
South East European Youth Network (SEEYN) - Organization promoting volunteer opportunities for young people from South East Europe outside the area, and opportunities within SEE youth organisations and on workcamps, for volunteers from elsewhere in the world.
Sunseed Trust / Sunseed Desert Technology - Develops ways of reclaiming semi-arid land and helping the lives of people living on such land, through research and experimentation, an ecological lifestyle and education.
Meta Description: [ Sunseed Desert Technology (SDT) aims to develop, demonstrate and communicate accessible, low-tech methods of sustainability in a semi-arid environment. The Sunseed Trust is its parent charity, and in mid-2003 became a company limited by guarantee. ]
The European Volunteer Centre (CEV) - European umbrella association of twenty-nine national and regional volunteer centres across Europe. Includes an overview of volunteer opportunities in Europe.
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United Nations Volunteers Online Volunteering Service - Worldwide online volunteering opportunities of United Nations Volunteers. Volunteers can find online volunteer assignments on this web site. Non profits in developing countries looking for online volunteers can post assignments here.
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