Sweetheart, volunteers get paid expenses. I'm talking about the INTERNATIONAL Red Cross, which hires people for PROJECTS and programmes. At least in Europe, you register for their list of 'experts' in various things (I'm translating literally, I don't know what the USA calls this list, or pool), you take the courses they organise in International Relief and in project management, and you wait. Eventually they call you up for a project, you go, they pay you well, they look after you well, you get a salary, pension, health scheme, etc., (not for dependents usually, but you don't have any dependents at the moment), but conditions are of course terrible where you are going and the work is tough. You would be ideal for it, IMHO. Doctors Without Borders is another place, as is the UN - not the UN Volunteers, but the UN Projects. However, you seem happy enough where you are, and that is the most important thing. I, on the other hand, would give my eye teeth to be working in a relief project like Q is, rather than being a parasite on society.