Has anyone had any expiriences with volunteering abroad? I am trying to meet up with a lad I met online, and I don't have the money to travel to USA from Russia, so I was thinking about either going to a work camp somewhere nice together, or going to a work camp in america and simply visiting him during the weekend. Is such a thing possible? Do such volunteer programs pay for the tickets? Where should I look for them?
No anon, you pay to volunteer. That's how it works with voluntourism. They wont pay for your ticket.
>>1139171
Not even if it's some big whoop organization like UN Volunteers? You don't pay for food and accomodation in any case, right?
>le travel for free meme
>>1139176
Is it actually not possible? The idea really does seem plausible.
>>1139173
I wouldn't know. Generally though you can assume that any unskilled volunteering is at your own expense. They would pay for food and accommodation in most cased I guess. WOOF for example works like that, work in exchange for food and a bed.
>>1139176
>HURR ITS NOT A GOOD DEAL CAUSE I HAVE TO PAY FOR MY TICKET ;_; HAVING FREE ROOM AND FOOD DOESNT HELP AT ALL
>>1139181
I've checked WOOF out and they are disgusting jews: they want 40$ paid to them for simply getting you the host listings
>>1139186
I agree. Its a shit deal. The work isnt in proportion to what you get back imo. Its not real volunteering in the sense of helping people either. Its only worthwhile if u get lucky and get a real cool host.
>>1139189
Some reassurance: I never personally did it. I base my opinions on what I've read on /trv/.
>>1139189
Good luck, mate. Surprised you were okay with paying the fee, hope you get some fun out of the trip!
>>1139199
its san francisco metro even the hostels are 60+ a night its a good way to see the area cheap
>>1139202
I stayed in a hostel there that was 20-25 or so a couple months ago.
Anyways come back and let us know how it went, I've been thinking of doing WWOOF for a while now but paying them is a bit shitty.
>/trv/ shits on WWOOF
>gonna be WWOOFing in the UK from august to december
Granted, I'm not afraid of really hard and shitty work, but the way some people talk about WWOOF is enough to make me curious about what I'm getting myself into.
>>1139183
It's not free, you retard. That's what I wrote.
Whether or not it's a good deal, depends if cucking yourself into shitty work, sihtty pay, shitty stay is worth the 5 sq km area you can explore for the 5 free hours you have every day.
hint: it's not
I found a job through wwoofing and have had hilarious times while wwoofing and later working for the person whose farm I wwoofed at.
>>1139171
>>1139149
Team Rubicon you don't pay to volunteer, but you have to be a vet or have some needed skill, if a civilian.
>>1139365
http://www.teamrubiconusa.org/join-the-team/down-n-dirty/volunteer/
In the UK we have a government scheme called ICS, where they literally pay for everything and send you on a 3-month volunteering stint. In my opinion the impact you actually have is pretty negligible (though still better than most voluntourism programs), but it's a great experience nonetheless. If any Brits are lurking and looking for an excuse to travel to somewhere a bit different for a few months, I'd definitely recommend it.
>>1139535
Brit-anon, do you have to be a British citizen, or is being a resident in the UK enough?
>>1139549
According to the website, it's open to any UK, EU, or EEA citizen with a current UK address.
http://www.volunteerics.org/apply-now
>>1139555
>http://www.volunteerics.org/apply-now
Ooh, interesting! I am a filthy foreigner, you see. :DDD
>>1139556
What sort of foreigner are you lad? If you're a European you've got no reason to worry.
>>1139558
An [spoiler]Eastern[/spoiler] European one. I've been living here for some years now, but you never know.
>>1139577
So you should be alright then? Most of you chaps are in the EU by now.
>>1139583
Honest answer is I have no idea, but the minister for Brexit doesn't want to trigger Article 50 until early 2017 and the process takes 2 years. So you'll be fine for a while.
>>1139583
It shouldn't.
I'm >>1139577 (no idea why the spoiler tags didn't go through, oh well). I'm from Lithuania, originally. From what I've gathered in the press, the pro-Brexit side has been panicking for the past couple of weeks without any clue what to do. Still, if some UKIP gents get to power, I wouldn't be surprised if people would get eviction notices all of a sudden.
Are there any volunteer organizations which pay for accomodation and food for small period of time, but that let you actually do things with some kind of impact?
In the past I've worked on small-to-middle size buildings, and it might be nice to take a week or something off from travelling during a longer trip to help build a school, fix roofs or something.
>>1140152
>it might be nice to take a week or something off from travelling during a longer trip to help build a school, fix roofs or something.
Yea, so while you're traveling, stop in at a church or other charity outfit. Habitat for Humanity? Go find their office online if traveling in the US and find out their schedule.
Monastery travel (you should be religious though, not just a tourist) has very _low_ priced )think $30-40/day) nightly accommodations with basic (soup+bread+salad) meals, lots of contemplative time, and of course, most have working farms and things to be done on site, which you could pitch in a hand to help with. Some are technical retreat houses, ie silence. They're often spartan, but otherwise gorgeous locations and grounds, hike/walks, even within cities.
>>1140155
>very _low_ priced )think $30-40/day) nightly accommodations with basic (soup+bread+salad) meals
This is in western countries, yes? I'm mostly interested in travelling in Asia, and it feels that volunteer work would have the most impact over there.
I've been thinking about volunteering abroad too. I've never been anywhere alone before and it seems like a good way to do it since you're staying with a lot of people who are in the same boat as you.
I've looked at quite a few schemes and I am thinking of going to Fiji with GVI in September for a month. I've worked shitty manual jobs for 4 years so it's all I really know, it'd be nice to use the only thing I'm good at to hopefully make a difference for people.
Does anyone know anything about GVI or anyone been to Fiji before? Again, its all a bit new to me so any advice or anything would be appreciated.