Platform2 is a global volunteering scheme for 18 to 25 year olds who wouldn't otherwise be able to visit a developing country and get involved with global issues of justice and poverty. It is funded by UKaid from the Department for International Development. and run by Christian Aid and BUNAC.

If you are between 18 and 25, have (or are eligible to have) a UK passport and are resident in the UK, apply today and you could be volunteering in India, Nepal, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa or Peru. If you're accepted on to the programme, you will have a training day before your trip overseas; 10 weeks volunteering in one of the countries above with a team of other volunteers; then a three day residential on your return. This will include workshops and opportunities for you to figure out how you want to express your experience.

You can apply online or print off an application form to send in. You'll find lots of info to help you in our programme overview.

Read about our volunteers' experiences and have a look at our about section where some frequently asked questions are answered. Find out the next application deadline and trip departure date Am I eligible? Answer a few questions to work out if Platform2 is for you Frequently asked questions about Platform2

"I didn't think that people like me could do something like this. I thought it was just for people who were rich… I'd never been on an airplane before. The farthest I'd been was Wales."

Charlotte Singleton, a volunteer youth worker from Manchester, spent 10 weeks teaching in a school in Himachal Pradesh, northern India.

"The people were so amazing – so warm, so welcoming. That's why so many of us want to go back... They talk so highly of all the things we've done for them. We think it was nothing, but they think it's amazing that we took time out to do something for them."

Muna Sheikh, a law student form east London, spent 10 weeks working in a community in Ventanilla, Peru.

"Over there everybody was connected and out to help each other get by. They were all in the same boat. Here, everyone is trying to get into their own boat and sail their own course. Over there they know that if they don't build a big boat together, they're not going nowhere. The people of Bledi Chedi showed me what the true essence of community is and I think that people could do with connecting to that – that sense of common unity."

Shaun Welch, a welder and artist from Birmingham, spent 10 weeks working in the Volta region of north-east Ghana.