What can an American college student do overseas?

My girlfriend and I are college students looking for somewhere overseas to lend our help, charitably. Ideally we would like it to contribute somehow to our education (she's a Sociology major, and I'm an English major) and we'd like our stay to be rather affordable. We've already considered the Peace Corps, but that tends to be for graduates, and we are not quite there yet. Besides missionary work, is there anything we could get into, are there any programs? It doesn't really matter where we go, as long as it doesn't tremendously increase our mortality rate.Thanks for the help!

Public Comments

1. You don't have to go all out and join the Peace Corps to lend a helping hand to a community while simultaneously studying your major. If you're an English major, try studying abroad at Oxford University in Britain. That would be an excellent place to go for and English major. While you're there, look for a local community center or homeless shelter that would like your help. There is bound to be one around. Most colleges have study abroad options that have very low cost living and often offer scholarships so you may only have to pay very little to nothing at all for your experience. Almost all universities have a study abroad office. Visit them and see what they have to say.
2. For you there are plenty of options where you can teach ESL or TEFL (teaching english as a foreign language, i think it stands for) in nearly every country. Im sure that there are also many programs which could benefit sociology, but it depends on which area of sociology she would like to work with.