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Combine Family Volunteering With Luxury Sightseeing
| Looking for an interesting and fun way to spend time with your family, then why not consider volunteering? Imagine walking along an Australian beach at night counting turtle hatchlings for a survey or painting the walls of a rundown orphanage, whilst your children help the orphans with their English. Volunteering offers a unique way to spend time with your brothers and sisters, your sons and daughters, or even the whole extended family while helping a community, a species or the environment. Hands Up Holidays offers inspiration for family holidays that combine sightseeing with a taste of volunteering. Our journeys strike a balance between a meaningful and educational volunteer experience, and a well-earned luxury escape. Why volunteer with your family?
Our New Orleans trip was featured on  and Costa Rica on  It is our pleasure to work closely with you to prepare the perfect tailor-made volunteering itinerary for you and your family to meet your exact travel requirements. Our speciality is luxury family voluntourism. Please click the following button to tailor-make your trip  | One of our clients sums up her feelings, following her two family trips with Hands Up Holidays:  "It is nearly impossible to choose only one experience, but rather for me, it is the many little moments that, when added together, make up the overall bonding and creation of my children's life stories that is memorable. As a parent, I feel so good knowing that I am showing and teaching my kids about themselves and others through volunteer travel; they experience self-reliance in carrying their bags, they learn adaptability in eating different foods, time changes, and sleeping arrangements, they learn about others - our differences and similarities, and see, smell, and hear cultures that make them realize how much is out there beyond what they know at home. My fondest memories from a parents' perspective are varied: watching my then three year old roll his own suitcase through the airport, watching all three children play with other children without a common language, seeing them work physically hard to benefit someone else, being in it together as family as we experience new people and things, and enjoying it so much that we reminisce often about the people we met and now miss." - Stephanie Zeigler from the USA, travelled to Brazil and Morocco with her children. |
.jpg "Parents Painting") | Impressions from a luxury family volunteering trip: "We had wanted to give back in some way and rather than take just another wonderful trip, we contacted Hands Up Holidays about mixing vacation with volunteering. We had no idea at the start where we wanted to go or what we wanted to do. Our consultant gave our family endless options. He was patient and helpful and created the perfect trip for our family. When we finally selected a destination, Guatemala, Our consultant put the whole thing together for us. We spent a week building a home for an indigenous Mayan family, yet we also got to see and experience Guatemala -- thanks to our consultant's planning. When traveling in areas that are perhaps not as comfortable as what we are all used to, it was reassuring to know that we were in good hands." - Jody Gardner and her family travelled on a tailor-made family volunteer vacation to Guatemala, from the USA |
| To ensure all your needs are met, we prefer to consult with you about any trip you have in mind.  We suggest volunteer projects that:
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