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Ukrainian Encounter

Trip Highlights

· Volunteering with disadvantaged Ukrainians
· Beautiful Kiev
· The Carpathian Mountains
· Exploring ethnic villages
· World Heritage city Lviv

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project

You can teach children in an orphanage how to use a computer, one on one English lessons and games, install new computer programmes, and repair class equipment. There are also elderly disabled people living in the village, and you can help these people to chop or saw wood, repair housing, etc. It all depends on the time of the year and ongoing local projects. 

Trip Description

You begin your adventure with two days in Kiev, to see, touch and breathe the ancient history. Your next stop – the Carpathians – is one of the world’s most magical corners, full of nature’s treasures.

Your Community Development volunteer project takes place here: you will spend four afternoons doing repairs in an orphanage, or teaching English or computer skills, and each morning you will visit a different, and unique, village in the Carpathian Mountains. You tour the beautiful World Heritage city Lviv, and end your journey, coming full circle, with an overnight 1st class train to Kiev.
We begin with two days in Kiev, to see, touch and breathe the ancient history. Our next stop – the Carpathians – is truly one of the world’s most magical corners, full of nature’s treasures. Several different ethnic groups, such as Hutsuls, Boikas, Pokutians live here, each with unique characteristics.

Your Community Development project takes place here: you will spend four afternoons doing repairs in an orphanage, or teaching English or computer skills, doing community development, and each morning you will visit a different, and unique, village in the Carpathian Mountains, including Kolomyia, with its Easter Egg museum.

We tour the beautiful World Heritage city Lviv, and end our journey, coming full circle, with an overnight 1st class train to Kiev.

For a full trip description PDF click here

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Feel free to contact us if you have any enquiries about this trip.  

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