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Best info for Volunteering ?

Glacier · 2008-05-01 15:03:21

Has anybody had a good long-term vol. experience? What would be the place to look for ideas? Books, websites? Thanks

01-05-2008 3:03pm

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Glacier

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Has anybody had a good long-term vol. experience? What would be the place to look for ideas? Books, websites?
Thanks

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#2 01-05-2008 4:43pm

dory

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There's good links on the voluntering forum, I think you already posted there, didn't you?
VSO or VSI are good.
I found the best thing is to just get to a country and find a poster in a hostel looking for someone. Found lots of these in Peru, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, India and a few others. Not many of them had websites though.
What kind of volunteering do you want to do? What are you trained in and stuff?
Have to remember volunteering is working for free. So you're qualified for the same things you would be if you wanted money, and if it's unskilled work any decent NGO will hire locals. I got lucky in some of the above countries because I speak Spanish.

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