Aug
30
Grocery shopping in Thailand
August 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment
How close to a train track can you set up a vegetable market? Watch this video to find out.
Jun
26
Free 3-month Accommodation for Animal Lover in Belize
June 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment
From the Volunteer Before You Die Traveler’s Network:
Nola Lee Kelsey, June 13, 2010
Subject: Free Long-Term (3-month) Accommodation for Animal Lover in Belize
Anything people can do to cross-post is much appreciated!
PAW (Protect Animal Welfare) Cat Sanctuary and Humane Society on Caye Caulker (pronounced Key Corker) in Belize Central America needs a long-term volunteer and a long-term veterinary volunteer. Stay three months helping the sanctuary and your beach-side accommodations plus a continental breakfast are provided for the duration of your stay. Check out the PAW website to see these great accommodations right on the ocean. Volunteers work around 2 hours in the morning and 2 in the afternoon with some flexibility in the schedule to explore the great dive sites of the region or work on your own projects, writing, reading…
Apr
19
Guilt-Free Getaways
April 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment
From the New York Times:
SURE, you’d like to take a vacation. But with layoffs hitting your best friends and your own company hinting at pay cuts, how can you justify it?
Consider the guilt-free vacation. To counter customers’ reluctance about jetting off for conspicuous consumption during a recession, travel companies are pushing trips that emphasize service, values and personal fulfillment. The message: If there is more involved than frivolous pleasure, you don’t have to feel bad about dropping all that cash on a splashy vacation
Aug
26
Senior-Friendly Volunteer Vacations
August 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Transitions Abroad’s listings for Senior-Friendly volunteer vacations include opportunities in “HIV/AIDS prevention, English teaching, orphanage support, Buddhist immersion,”Ă‚Â conservation,Ă‚Â building schools and community centers, international health, and more.
Aug
26
Righteous Journeys
August 26, 2008 | 1 Comment
From Away.com’s link to Outside Online: “Twelve trips to change your life”and make a difference. PLUS: A resource guide for those in it for the long haul.” Includes volunteer opportunities in the Alaskan wilderness, the Galapagos, the southern Appalachians, Midway Atoll, California’s Sequoia and King’s Canyon National Parks, a Masaai ranching community at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro, Fiji, and more. Tasks range from digging ditches to teaching English to chasing elephants away from crops.
Aug
22
Volunteer as a Photojournalist
August 22, 2008 | 4 Comments
From Charity Guide: “As a volunteer photojournalist, it’s best to make arrangements with one or more charities before you leave on your vacation so you will have an idea of the types of photographs they may need, where their projects or events are taking place, and if the charity provides any type of accommodations or supplies.
- One World Photography, which assists about two dozen international nonprofit organizations, offers opportunities for volunteer photojournalists to document social and environmental issues that are often ignored around the world. If you’re taking pictures in a foreign country, you might want to learn how to say “smile” in the native language!
Aug
22
Volunteer with the Sierra Club
August 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment
You know the Sierra Club sponsors important conservation initiatives, but did you know they also offer volunteer vacation opportunities? “Service trips range from helping with research projects at whale calving grounds in Maui to assisting with archaeological site restoration in New Mexico. Usually, service trip participants team up with forest service rangers or park service personnel to restore wilderness areas, maintain trails, clean up trash and campsites, and remove non-native plants.” With more than 1.3 million members, the Sierra Club is America’s largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization.
Aug
22
Charity Guide Volunteer Vacations
August 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Want to make a difference on your next vacation? Check out Charity Guide for loads of information about many types of volunteer vacations. “This year, your volunteer vacation could be teaching basic math to students in a rural African community struggling to modernize. Next year, you could volunteer abroad to help research scientists save endangered sea turtles from extinction. On your volunteer vacation the following year, you could assist nurses at a children’s clinic in Romania, help build a home for a homeless family, dig for dinosaur bones, or control erosion on a remote wilderness trail in a US national park.”