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| Plan a Volunteer Vacation |
Submitted by:
05/22/2009 10:23 PM
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One of my favorite ways to travel is to set up volunteer gigs in the places that I want to visit. There are so many benefits to doing this: it enables you to get to know the community that you are visiting, it feels good to help out, it’s great work experience, it is the best way to learn a language, and often you can arrange free room & board in exchange for your service. This brings your total travel cost for living weeks or months overseas down to your airfare and small incidentals.
Larger non-profits and non-governmental organizations often limit their volunteers to specific posts (usually domestic) or to specific applicants (for example, graduate students). So I recommend skipping right over them and heading straight for the small and new non-profits.
For starters, visit www.idealist.org. You are welcome to search for open volunteer assignments, but this search often yields the volunteer assignments that require you to pay a fee to cover the costs of hosting you. Instead, I recommend searching through Idealist’s full directory of non-profits (regardless of whether or not they currently have open positions) and then contact the ones that you are interested in.
I've volunteered in Brazil, Panama, and Guatemala all through idealist.org and I've loved it every time.
[This is an excerpt from a longer article I wrote on this topic : http://peripateticliving.com/?p=53]
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