Volunteer Travel is a growing sector in the Travel Industry - Our Women Travel website tries to keep an up to date listing of Volunteer Networks, here us a snippet from one of them Edge of Seven to celebrate International Womens Day. Ngima Doma is just one woman who is walking testament to the trength and potential of women in Nepal. Ngima Doma is the headmaster of the school system in Basa, where we recently helped to build additional … [Read more...]
Volunteering with Special Needs Students in Costa Rica
As a female nursing student from North Carolina who had never before traveled outside of the country, I was excited - and a little bit nervous - about my first trip abroad. I am studying to become a developmental disability nurse, so I chose to volunteer abroad in the special needs schools in San Ramon, Costa Rica., through Uvolunteer reading glasses online This was the perfect opportunity for me to help out the population that I love in a … [Read more...]
VOLUNTEERING IN INDIA – Look to your motives!
Dianne Sharma-Winter runs Women Travel India and here she writes about voluteering in India: Hot on the heels of a recent article I wrote about why India doesn't need you to volunteer, I was lured into doing the very thing I advised against! For the next three months I have committed my time and energy to volunteering at Sambhali Women and Girl Empowerment Centre in Jodhpur, Rajasthan and am currently living with 15 rambunctious girls in a … [Read more...]
Travel2Change – a great network connecting travelers and locals
Women Travel is committed to sustainable living and sustainable travel, one of the ways of living this out is to travel with a purpose, and Travel2Change is the latest network we have come across that help to make this possible, through their commitment to connecting travelers with locals to create change. We have just added them to our Volunteering links page Travel2Change on Twitter on Facebook … [Read more...]
What I Learned From Volunteering In Thailand
Guest blog by Dunya Carter Once I finished my studies in Australia, graduating with a degree in English Language, I decided I was finally going to pursue a dream that I had for some time. My dream was to go to another country and teach. I have a strong belief in doing something that makes a difference in the lives of others. What I didn't realize is what a difference the experience would make in me. … [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...]
