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Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Your volunteer project is with a variety of charities in Cancun Mexico. Help out with tasks such as preparing and serving meals, accompanying elderly people and enabling them to be more active, teaching English and helping out with maintenance work such as gardening, cleaning and painting.

Trip Highlights

• Mayan Chichen Itza
• Rio Lagartos
• Colonial Merida
• Calakmul biosphere reserve
• Biking, snorkelling and kayaking
• Playa del Carmen beach

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Teach in a remote community school. Help local people read, support them in mathematics, English and computer lessons.

Trip Highlights

• Volunteer project
• Chiva Express train journey
• Rio Colorado Community support
• Otavalo’s handcraft market tour
• Amazonian 3 nights programme
• Colonial Cuenca and surroundings
• Modern Guayaquil

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Running a workshop or class in a home for underprivileged children in Buenos Aires

Trip Highlights

• Making a positive difference in the lives of disadvantaged children through volunteering
• The spectacular Iguaçu Falls
• Awe-inspiring glaciers
• Hiking around Bariloche's stunning lake
• Fabulous wine in Mendoza

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
You can help improve the lives of 'at risk' children, by transforming their living environment. They may have been born into unfortunate circumstances but this shelter aims to give them a safe haven and a place to develop vocational skills.

Trip Highlights

• Four meaningful days assisting at a shelter for street kids
• The majestic Iguaçu Falls
• The magical Pantanal wetland region; maybe spot a jaguar

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project Building Community Facilities in Natal, Cistern and reservoir construction, house building, reforestation, honey extraction in remote Araruna

Trip Highlights

• Experience Natal city
• Enjoy a 4WD buggy drive
• Explore Olinda town a UNESCO World Heritage site
• Visit a Manatee Research Centre
• Learn about Charles Darwin Ecological Centre
• Walk in the Mata Atlantica rainforest
• Stay at Sertao (outback) ranch
• Discover the colonial town of Areia

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Environmental Cleanup in the Galapagos Islands

Trip Highlights

• Volunteering Project with Galapagos Foundation
• Quito and Equatorial monument tour
• Chiva Express Chimborazo Adventure to Riobamba
• Galapagos 7 night programme
• Otavalo’s handcraft market tour
• Sailing
• Snorkeling

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Repairs and Renovations, Teaching, Medical

Trip Highlights

• Visit the mystical Sacred Valley
• Explore the Amazon jungle with an expert guide
• View the sunrise over Machu Picchu
• Trek the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
You can build a home for a needy family in an impoverished village just outside of Antigua. There are other meaningful projects for people with specialist skills, such as doctors and pharmacists.

Trip Highlights

• Helping build a home for a needy family
• Colonial Antigua with an expert local guide
• Lake Atitlan’s villages with a volcanic backdrop
• The colorful Sunday markets of Chichicastenango

Taste of Volunteering Project
Listen to fascinating stories, as you help former coca leaf (used for making cocaine) growers develop their eco-tourism project, or feel part of a small community as you help realise the dreams of a family run fairtrade coffee plantation.

Trip Highlights

• Explore colonial Cartagena's gorgeous buildings
• Visit the famous salt cathedral - worship services still take place here, deep underground
• Witness the wildness and beauty of Tayrona National Park
• Stay in charming boutique luxury colonial accommodation

Featured in Travel + Leisure Magazine! Make a positive difference in a favela community by building a house for an impoverished family.  Interact with the locals in the favelas, on the beach, and even at a samba club.

Trip Highlights

• Meaningful interaction with inhabitants of Rio’s poorest yet most vibrant communities, and make a positive impact in their lives by building a house
• Rio’s stunning landscapes and icons such as Christ the Redeemer
• Copacabana, Ipanema, Joa beaches and sunset over Arpoador Beach
• Bohemian-chic Santa Teresa neighborhood
• Hidden gems that only the locals know about
• Boutique eco-luxury accommodation and private tours with an expert local guide

Highlights

• Make a difference with sustainable agriculture and environmental conservation projects
• Meet Belizeans  and learn about Maya Culture
• Swim through stunning Blue Creek Cave
• Learn how to make corn tortillas from scratch in a traditional village
• Stay in eco-friendly accommodation in a sublime location

Trip Highlights

• Playing a role in preserving the biodiversity of Costa Rica's wildlife by helping construct and repair shelters for animals illegally kept as pets
• Enjoying the unique biodiversity in Tortuguero, where you can see turtle hatchlings (in season), and view howler monkeys, sloths and ocelot by boat - a unique perspective
• Experiencing a fabulous white water rafting trip along the Pacuare River
• Appreciating the Arenal volcano, hot springs, and hikes
• Fabulous hospitality for your home-stay whilst volunteering
• Superb eco-luxe boutique accommodation

Your Taste of Volunteering Project:

• You can play a role in preserving the biodiversity of Costa Rica's wildlife by helping construct and repair shelters for animals illegally kept as pets
• You can assist with preparing seedlings for reforestation alongside 'Ticos' (people from Costa Rica) so you get to interact meaningfully with them
• You can learn how to recycle materials into banana paper which is then used to support a local women's cooperative

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Help children caught in bizarre system lead semi-normal lives and help them attain the potential for a normal future.

Trip Highlights

Bolivia is an amazingly diverse country and as you travel you will take in:

• the remarkable volunteering project
• the colorful high altitude city of La Paz
• the lush jungles of Madidi National Park
• the arid pre-Inca ruins of Tiwanaku
• the unique Lake Titicaca
• the islands of the Moon and Sun
• the stark and beautiful salt flats near Uyuni

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
You can make a difference in the lives of elderly Romanians by helping with repair and renovations of dilapidated houses. 

Trip Highlights

• Fulfilling interaction through giving back
• Panoramic Bucharest
• Dinner at the Count Dracula Club
• Monasteries of Voronet and Nearnt
• Brasov and Dracula’s Castle
• Bran Castle
• Danube river boat trip

Trip Highlights

• Volunteering in Cape Town's disadvantaged communities (or with animals)
• Table Mountain and luxury boutique hotel in Cape Town
• Cape of Good Hope
• Cultural Township Tour
• Stellenbosch Winelands
• Luxury “Big 5” safari at a premier Big 5 lodge

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Repairs & Renovations, ad hoc Village Based Projects

Trip Highlights

• Building new classrooms in a Berber village
• Marrakech’s souks (markets), gardens, museums
• Djeema el Fna - musicians, storytellers & snake charmers
• Trekking in the High Atlas Mountains (April-Nov) or 
• Exploring the Sahara Desert (Dec-Mar)
• Charming Essaouira and its beach

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Teaching, Environmental Conservation, Business Advice

Trip Highlights

• Helping make a difference educating some of Malawi's poorest people, or assisting with environmental conservation
• Victoria Falls and Tongabezi Lodge
• South Luangwe National Park; view ‘Big 5’ animals
• Luxury accommodation throughout

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Teaching, Environmental conservation, Business Advice

Trip Highlights

• Making a difference training, provising business advice, or on environmental conservation projects
• Sailing on Lake Malawi
• Likoma Island
• Liwonde National Park
• Mumbo Island
• Luxury accommodation

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Environmental conservation - depending on the time of year, you can help with bird monitoring and tagging, tree planting, and even maintaining a footbridge to a bird lookout point.

Trip Highlights

• Environmental volunteering in Watamu
• Beautiful beaches
• Vibrant Watamu
• Three distinctly different game parks – Amboseli, Tsavo East, and Masai Mara National Parks

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Help develop a Masai tourism initiative that uses proceeds to support a shelter for young girls that choose not to undergo female circumcision

Trip Highlights

• Stay in luxury accommodation
• Discover private conservancies
• Find unique species in Samburu  Game Park – a little known gem
• Visit Maasai Mara (and optional hot air balloon ride)
• Explore a Maasai village with a Maasai warrior
• Relax in barefoot luxury on a pristine beach on an idyillic island

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Teach English to entrepreneurial young women that are working their way out of poverty.

Trip Highlights

• Volunteer project
• Chimpanzee trekking
• Lake Kivu
• Insights into traditional African life
• Land of a Thousand Hills
• Nyungwe Rainforest
• Volcano National Park and gorilla trekking

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Build a medical clinic to help a needy community

Trip Highlights

• Scuba dive or swim in clear turquoise waters
• Sail around stunning islands
• Bush walk and spot elephants

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Assisting with teaching and helping children get a better start in an orphanage. Specialist medical tasks are also available.

Trip Highlights

• Making a difference in schools, orphanages and medical clinics
• Local craft villages
• Kumasi Fort
• Manso Slave Market
• Cape Coast and beautiful beaches
• Accra's coffin makers

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Help build a library, IT and reading room at a remote school

Trip Highlights

• Help build a school in a remote community
• Fabulous riad in Marrakech
• Djeema el Fna square in Marrakech
• Shopping in the souks     

Trip Highlights

• Meaningful interaction with the Ethiopian people and insights into their lives through volunteering
• Lake Tana's monasteries - in splendid isolation
• Gondar's castles - the Camelot of Africa
• The stunning Simien Mountains and the endemic, handsome Gelada Baboon
• Axum ( or Aksum) and the Ark of the Covenant
• The incredible rock hewn churches of Lalibela

Your Taste of Volunteering Project

Make a difference in the lives of Ethiopian children in three main ways:

• Accompany staff on their house visits. Take notes and write reports for sponsors (your English skills can enable these to be done more quickly, and thus more children visited)
• Help the accountant with her tasks (accounting skills preferred, but even if you have just computer skills, you can still help)
• Visit hotels and ensure that they are well stocked with material promoting the charity which encourages guests to sponsor children

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Visit the "real" Zambia and take the opportunity to teach at a village school, assist at the medical clinic or work on one of the building projects, such as constructing a house for a widow. Gain unique insights into rural Zambian life and get to know your gracious hosts.  

Trip Highlights

• wonderful community development project
• stunning Victoria Falls
• adrenalin packed adventure activities
• spectacular game viewing

''Taste of Volunteering'' Project Description
Chose some of these great options:

• Help fund and build a library and a computer centre at a local high school
• Help fund and build more crèches
• Repairs and renovations to existing classrooms  
• Provide teacher training to better equip local teachers
• Teach art at an art club
• Provide career guidance workshops for senior students
• Business people can give advice to budding local entrepreneurs in an area where unemployment is generally very high and opportunities are limited
• Help fund Fun Pumps at a local school to ensure a clean water supply
• Fund scholarships for students to continue their studies and/or help pay for teacher’s salaries

Trip Highlights

• Knowing that you have made a lasting difference in the lives of impoverished people
• Discovering new things about yourself
• Luxury Ulusaba lodge on a private game reserve teeming with 'Big 5' and more
• Superb meals
• Expert guides

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Repairs & Renovations, Office Work with a disabled children's village near Beijing

Trip Highlights

• Volunteering at a disabled children's village near Beijing
• Exploring Beijing’s back alleys by rickshaw
• Full day at remote section of the Great Wall
• Xian’s Terracotta Warriors
• Guilin’s sheer limestone formations
• Learn tai chi and calligraphy
• Night boat ride in Shanghai

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Help provide children with an education that gives them a foundation and the confidence to succeed in this impoverished country.

Trip Highlights

• Making a difference in the lives of children at an orphanage or school
• Exploring vibrant Kathmandu
• Experiencing the Kathmandu Valley
• Learning about local culture, anthropology, politics etc.
• Hiking to the famous Everest Base Camp

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
You can make a difference and help build a house for an impoverished family.

Trip Highlights

• An amazing experience building a house for an impoverished family
• The killing fields
• World Heritage Angkor Wat and the temple complex
• Tonle Sap Lake & floating village

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
You can teach English to children who are eager to learn, at an impoverished school.

Or, you can assist an animal welfare project: support vets, help spot injured dogs and cats, feed and care for them.

Or you can make a difference with repair & renovations or IT/administrative work at a foundation for the rehabilitation of physically disabled children and young adults from villages throughout Bali

Trip Highlights

• Volunteering in one of three memorable projects
• Artistic Ubud town
• Beautiful beaches
• Whitewater rafting
• Mountain biking down Mt Batur
• Hiking near Bali’s National Park
• Luxurious spa and massage treatment

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Physiotherapy, Repairs & Renovations, Gardening and Teaching English

Trip Highlights

• Volunteering with victims of Agent Orange
• Hanoi’s old town
• Perfume Pagoda
• Ninh Binh, "Halong Bay on the land"
• Phat Diem cathedral & 19th century bridge
• Halong Bay by luxury "junk"

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Conversational English Teaching in a remote hill-tribe village and home-stay with the community.

Trip Highlights

• Volunteer teaching in a remote ethnic minority hill-tribe village
• Hanoi’s Museum of Ethnology, Ho Chi Minh complex, a “cyclo” ride through the old town
• Sapa’s ethnic villages where you can really get immersed in the culture with a home-stay experience whilst volunteering
• Hiking in stunning hill scenery

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Physiotherapy, Repairs & Renovations, Gardening and Teaching English with child victims of Agent Orange 

Trip Highlights

• Making a difference with victims of Agent Orange
• Bustling Saigon
• Cu Chi Tunnels
• Mekong Delta
• Laid back Hoi An
• Hanoi’s old town
• Halong Bay

Trip Highlights

• Meaningful interaction with the Laotian people
• Vientiane's Victory Monument
• Vang Vieng - kayaking, cave exploring, inner-tube riding down the river
• World Heritage Luang Prabang
• Ban Xang Hai ethnic minority village
• Kuang Sy waterfalls

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Build a house for a needy family

Trip Highlights

• Tranforming the lives of a needy family by building a new home for them
• Phnom Penh’s pagodas, palaces, museums
• The killing fields of the Khmer Rouge regime
• Boat ride to the ancient city of Angkor Borei
• World Heritage Angkor Wat
• Ton Le Sap Lake and its floating village
• Vientiane
• The mysterious Plain of Jars
• A H’mong ethnic village
• World Heritage Luang Prabang
• Boat trip to the amazing Pak Ou caves

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Village Based Projects, Environmental Projects

Trip Highlights

• Volunteering with the wonderful people of Bali Island in the Sunderbans
• Calcutta city tour
• Game cruises and birding tours within the unique Sunderbans eco-system
• Potential to spot tigers
• Visiting land based tiger viewing watchtowers
• Staying in a community-owned eco-lodge at ‘Sunderbans Jungle Camp’
• Evening entertainment at the rural theatre

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Assistance at an orphanage created after the tsunami: helping build a new coffee shop and bakery, and helping children with their homework in the evenings.

 

Trip Highlights

• Making a difference at a post-tsunami orphanage
• Luxury accommodation throughout
• Bangkok’s temples & palaces
• The ancient capital of Ayuthaya
• Luxury overnight cruise from Bangkok to Ayuthaya
• Phang Nga province's beaches, snorkelling and diving

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Elephant care and conservation

Trip Highlights

• Getting up close and personal helping elephants
• Bangkok tour
• Language classes and market practicing
• Thai traditional massage
• Chiang Mai and Doi Suthep
• Elephants and caring for them
• Hilltribe interaction
• Trekking
• Rafting

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Repairs & Renovations, Teaching English

Trip Highlights

• Volunteering in deprived parts of Delhi - either teaching or repair work
• Old Delhi
• Taj Mahal
• Chambal Nature Safari
• Ranthambore Tiger Reserve
• Deserted city of Fatehpur Sikri
• Pink city of Jaipur in Rajasthan
• Classic luxury throughout

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Play your part in a ground-breaking environmental conservation project to help save native birds, including kiwi:

• Bird monitoring
• Checking traps
• Pest control
• Feeding seabirds

Trip Highlights
 

• Help play an active role in conserving NZ's rare and native birds, including the kiwi
• Explore Waiheke Island and its boutique vineyards and cafes
• Feel the excitement of an Americas Cup match race
• Sail in the stunning Bay of Islands
• Fly down North Island in a Helicopter (via Waitomo Caves and Huka Lodge)
• Relax in New Zealand's finest luxury lodges, with spas and golf
• Taste the wines of the Marlborough Sounds
• Watch whales in Kaikoura
• Heli-hike on the Franz Josef Glacier
• Soar over magnificent Milford Sound in a helicopter
• Choose from a myriad of activities in Queenstown, including golf

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Assist Fijian street children or Solo Mothers and their children, by improving their living environment or teaching.

Trip Highlights

• Your meaningful volunteer project
• Accommodation at 5* eco-resorts
• Coral Coast and Kula Eco-Bird Park
• Optional day cruise
• Optional golf or day-spa

Trip Highlights:

• Get to know the people of New Orleans and hear their stories, as you interact meaningfully with them through a taste of volunteering
• Follow your expert local guides through the history of New Orleans to life
• Explore the vibrant French Quarter and the charming Garden District
• Gain insights into the slavery era with a plantation visit
• Stay in luxury boutique accommodation

Your Taste of Volunteering Project:
There are many ways you can get involved:

• Help refurbish houses damaged by Hurricane Katrina; or
• Help sort clothing donations at a homeless shelter; or
• Teach computer or other skills to unemployed people and help increase their chances of securing long-term jobs, or
• Help at an assisted living home for the elderly, by entertaining the residents and assisting with the programs - great for families!