It's the case for many NGO. Just know that: - NGOs won't pay nearly as much as the private sector, obviously. - It's very hard to get in, at least for deploye

It's the case for many NGO. Just know that: - NGOs won't pay nearly as much as the private sector, obviously. - It's very hard to get in, at least for deployed missions. So do not hesitate to try again and again for a long time. - Once you are in, it ripples, and you easily get access to many other missions, provided you did a good job. It can be useful to accept something completely out of your main thing, just to get the foot in the door. - A lot of NGO work is actually not helping anybody. Be prepared to be disappointed. Some is good, but the amount of PR, virtue signaling and scams is staggering. Although many people are under the delusion they save the world. Do it for the experience, and maybe you'll get lucky and you'll do more good that bad, on average. Some days, I'm still unsure I did. But emergency responses are where the most unambiguous good is done. - If you do it for long enough, you will get hurt. That's just how it is. Sick, wounded, bankrupt... Something. That's one of the prices to pay. E.G: in West Africa, our first Malaria was kinda a rite of passage. We'd joke about it. You can't take pills with side effects for ever. - You'll need to be pretty autonomous. Nobody is going to take you by the hand. But the cool part of this is that you'll get responsibilities and freedom of action you'll have nowhere else. It can be a curse as much as a blessing, but I loved it.