About Developing World Connections

Developing World Connections is a non-profit organization from Kamloops, BC, that creates and facilitates meaningful international volunteer experiences in the developing world. Volunteers contribute their human and financial resources to sustainable projects managed by our host partner organizations with a proven record of best development practices.

We currently provide two to four week international volunteer experiences in Guatemala, Peru, Rwanda, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Cambodia, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines.

Our projects are all related to construction of infrastructure to help eliminate the causes and effects of poverty. Our volunteers help build schools, medical facilities, and livelihood centres, water projects and agriculture projects. No special skills are required.

Our Mission

We believe that working alongside local people in the developing world on a poverty alleviating project builds hope. Hope for the community, the volunteer and hope for a better more peaceful world. It is our mission to be a conduit for hope and to a difference being made in the world. We exist to connect regular everyday people with communities in the developing world, to work alongside each other, experiencing making a real and lasting difference for the benefit of everyone in our global community.

We believe the footprint we leave behind should be gentle, the friendships great, and the memories we bring home should positively and profoundly impact our lives. ~ Wayne McRann, DWC Founder

Our Impact

Since sending our first volunteer teams to Sri Lanka in 2005, our volunteers and donors have contributed to a vast number of projects worldwide:

• We've served 15 countries on three continents
• Over 1600+ volunteers have participated on development projects
• 191,253 total volunteer hours have been invested

Project highlights over the past 10 years include:

• 2,600 students now have access to a learning centre built in Guatemala
• 25 homes and dozens of latrines have been constructed in rural Cambodia
• 664 people have received free dental care in Peru
• 3 water harvesting structures have been built in India to support 120 families
• 30 laptops and 2 servers were provided and installed at the first library and computer lab in Maai Mahiu, Kenya
• 29 new homes, a community centre, prayer centre, playground, and a shop have been built in Sri Lanka as part of tsunami rebuilding efforts
• 10,000 people will have access to running water after a water irrigation system is constructed in Naro Moru, Kenya
• 2000+ residents of a slum in the Philippines now have access to dental services, alternative learning programs, and income generating programs in a community centre
• $8000+ dollars donated to Typhoon Haiyan relief efforts

Your Donation Matters

DWC is a non-profit organization, and we do not receive any government funding. You donation is vital to help keep our organization running and enables more funds to directly reach our host communities and project beneficiaries. By becoming a donor, you become part of the growing community of active global citizens who want to see real, lasting, positive change in the world.

You can donate to a specific participant, project, or make a general one time or monthly donation to our organization. Please include details in the message section to indicate your preference. If you are donating to a specific participant, please be sure to include their full name in the message section.