How we check

Four tests, and a listing has to pass all of them

1. It is real, and it is open. The organisation's own page is opened and read. Not a repost, not a summary, not somebody else's list. If the page does not say clearly whether it is open, we do not publish it.
2. You can actually reach it. No hidden condition you cannot meet.
3. It changes something. Money is one way. So is a skill you keep, a qualification that opens later doors, people you would not otherwise meet, or a route to owning something. If getting it would leave you roughly where you were, it does not belong here.
4. It costs you nothing to apply. No application fee, no processing fee, no training fee, no visa fee, no deposit. One exception, and it is narrow: a few opportunities that give far more than they ask charge a small fee. We list one only if it is not a job, its own page states the fee, the fee is paid to the organisation itself, the organisation has a track record, what it gives is worth at least ten times the fee, and the fee is waived for people in the countries we serve, covered by aid, or paid only after you are accepted. Its card says the fee plainly, it ranks lower for it, and it is never shown as free.

Why we almost never list a fee

Fraud aimed at people looking for opportunities is large and organised. Nigeria's ICPC has warned publicly about a fake government scholarship scheme collecting "processing fees". Over a thousand Nigerians were left stranded in the UK after paying up to $10,000 each for jobs that did not exist, according to the International Organization for Migration.

In both cases the reliable signal is the same: a real opportunity does not ask you for money. So we lose a few genuine listings rather than carry one that takes money from someone who does not have it.

The one exception is written above and it never covers a job, because a job that asks you for money is not a job. A fellowship that pays a year's stipend and charges a placement fee only once you have accepted it is a different thing from a scheme that takes a processing fee before it tells you anything. Even then we say the fee on the card, we rank it lower for it, and no organisation can pay to put it in front of you.

Who does the checking

Every listing is opened on the organisation's own page and checked against the four tests above. AI agents do the checking. An agent opens the page, not a repost or someone else's list, and works through the tests. What it found and the date it looked are recorded against the listing, so any claim here can be traced back to a page you can open yourself.

A second agent then re-checks a sample of the live listings from scratch, from the organisation's page and not from the first agent's notes. A listing that fails is taken down.

Anything an agent cannot settle is not published. It is held back and tried again later. That happens when a page contradicts itself, when a site cannot be read, or when a deadline is given but not who may apply.

We work this way because the people this site is for live in fifty-four countries and speak several languages. One person checking by hand could only cover a fraction of that.

The standard does not change. The four tests are applied exactly as written above, and a listing whose eligibility nobody has published stays out, whoever or whatever looked at it.

What we do when we are not sure

If an organisation's own page does not say who may apply, the listing stays unpublished rather than guessed at. Many opportunities are held back for this reason. Often the page does not say who may apply.

Every card shows its date

Every card shows the date it was last checked. When a deadline passes, the listing leaves the lists on its own. Its page stays and says it has closed.

If something here is wrong, closed, or asks you for money, tell us and we will take it down.