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Volunteer your
design skills.

Join architects, engineers, students, and community partners working on schools, clinics, and other local projects. You can contribute your skills or help fund the design work.

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Design volunteers paired
500+
Countries reached
53
Volunteer hours in 2025
7,000+

Choose how you want to participate.

Professionals and students can apply to join a project team. Supporters can fund the coordination and tools the work requires.

Professionals

Volunteer on a JI project.

Contribute architecture, engineering, construction, or project-management expertise to an active project team.

Apply as a professional

Students

Gain supervised project experience.

Work on a JI project with guidance from experienced design and construction professionals.

Apply as a student

Supporters

Fund volunteer design work.

Donate to cover project coordination, volunteer support, and the tools each design team needs.

Donate

Late July through August 2027 · Preregistration

2027 Global
Design-Build Workshop

Join students, practitioners, and educators exploring community-led design through international collaboration, professional mentorship, and opportunities to learn by building.

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Journeyman International volunteers visiting a project site in Rwanda

Work with local partners.

Listen to the partner, contribute your skills, and help develop a plan that local professionals can review and build.

What to expect

Process

  1. 01

    Apply

    Tell us about your experience, interests, availability, and the kind of contribution you hope to make.

  2. 02

    Find the right fit

    We review your application and match accepted volunteers with a suitable project, role, and team.

  3. 03

    Design together

    You work within an agreed scope, listen to the local partner, and collaborate with the full project team.

  4. 04

    Hand off well

    You organize the final work so local professionals can review, approve, and carry the project forward.

Read the complete volunteer guidelines

Volunteer application

Your skills and availability

Share enough for us to understand your skills, interests, and availability. Required fields are marked.

Before you begin

Submitting sends your application directly to our team. You will receive a confirmation email when it arrives.

A good fit

  • Architecture, engineering, construction management, or a related skill
  • Enough time to communicate reliably and complete high-quality work
  • Respect for community priorities, local knowledge, and cultural context
  • A willingness to serve without seeking personal or commercial gain
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Your interest and availability
Supporting files (optional)

Supporting files are sent with your application and may be up to 3 MB combined. You can send larger files after our team replies.

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