“How many times have you been travelling and visited a school or community or local charity that you would love to help? The school needs books, or a map or pencils; an orphanage needs children's clothes or toys. All things that, if only you'd known, you could've stuffed in your rucksack. But once you get home you forget, or you've lost the address, or worry that whatever you send will be stolen before it even gets there...” … [Read more...]
Leaving More Than you Take: Volunteer Travel
The idea of volunteering in another country has long been considered the province of students and recent graduates; images of intrepid twenty-year-old Peace Corps workers in a remote Sierra Leone village might spring to mind. Today, however, the idea has reached far beyond that to become accessible, and highly popular, among travelers of all types and ages. Volunteer travel has grown so popular that a term has even been coined for it: … [Read more...]
See the world for free, and help a fellow human while you do it
Mark Baldwin saw the potential to match cash strapped travelers with people who need a hand and has set up Helpandhost.net … [Read more...]
Women Travel for Peace
Have just been searching You Tube for Women travel pieces - and discovered this YouTube Channel - Women Travel for for Peace, Women Travel for Peace brought five intrepid women to Senegal to work with local farming women. Together we built a well for the women's farming plot. As a result of our contribution, the local women now have water year-round to farm their crops, and they are able to work a shorter workday. When you work 365 days a year … [Read more...]
Work and Travel – gap year and volunteering
The cost of travel is high - both financially for our own pockets and also increasingly we are counting the cost of travel in terms of the planet and the social and environmental impact of travel. There is no easy solution - simply to stop travelling will have enormous economic impact on small communities for whom travellers provide a major economic boost to the local community. In New Zealand - tourism is set to overtake exports as New … [Read more...]
