WHY VOLUNTEER ?
Volunteering
abroad is a life-changing experience. You share your enthusiasm, time, skills,
and energy and give of yourself in a way that allows you to effect positive
change.
Making a difference can also
mean sharing specific knowledge, skills, and experience you may have. But the
experience extends far beyond hands-on service with many opportunities for
cultural exchange and personal transformation. And the impact of your service
can last a lifetime, for you and the community you served.
If you
have an interest in volunteering and learning about another culture, you can be
of service. Making a difference can be as simple as sharing love and affection.
- The local organizations and projects with which you volunteer overseas have limited resources and are seldom able to subsidize your trip or cover the costs of hosting you. (These costs include housing, feeding and transporting you, among numerous other things.)
- Identifying appropriate host organizations overseas and working with them is time-consuming, takes resources, and requires an experienced and professional staff.
- The process of preparing, training, transporting, housing, feeding, and supervising volunteers is not cheap. Additional services such as health care, re-entry assistance, travel medical insurance, and more, all add to the expenses of a program.
- The costs of recruiting volunteers, producing literature, answering the phones, sending mailings, developing a website, and interviewing potential volunteers are significant.
Prospective volunteers are surprised to learn that many programs charge their volunteers a fee to participate. At first, this can seem ridiculous —Why should you pay money to work for free? Aren't you already forgoing income you could be making? Here are a few things to keep in mind while trying to understand why the vast majority of programs charge international volunteers a fee:
We charge very little amount of money to provide you with the best volunteering program in Africa and Asia with our partner NGO.
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