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Volunteering
Volunteering overseas can be a rewarding travel experience or even a way to develop work skills or practise a new language.  If you are interested in voluntary work or a "working holiday", please first think about what you want to do, why you want to volunteer and what you have to offer.  For some thought-provoking questions and volunteer tips, sign up at www.intervol.org.uk
To volunteer in a developing country can be incredibly rewarding, intensely frustrating, exhilarating, tough, great fun, saddening and uplifting, and may leave you in tears of despair or joy - possibly all on the same day.  It is certainly not for everyone.
CRACYP does NOT offer packaged 'volunteer experiences' on stage-managed projects, although we do have years of experience with volunteers.  What we do offer is the chance to participate in and assist with our ongoing work in Ecuador - with all its frustrations, delays and challenges, but also its genuine progress and achievements.  
We like to use your business experience or technical skills, but might also need you to help with manual work at times.  You may be upset by the poverty or frustrated by the bureaucracy and it may take a while to slow down to 'Ecuadorian time', but this is real development, warts and all, not the sanitised 'holiday' version.    
If this kind of volunteering sounds right for you, we'd like to hear why you think you're right for one of our current volunteer opportunities in Ecuador.  
If we're not the right volunteer opportunity for you, search thousands of others around the world at www.intervol.org.uk to find the one which suits you best.  Make sure you know whether your chosen volunteer organisation is a responsible charity or agency with worthwhile projects, or just a holiday company making a big profits from your good intentions.  Always make sure you get a receipt for any money you pay for your overseas volunteer experience.  We wish you fun, achievement and satisfaction in your volunteering.
Check our current Ecuador volunteer opportunities or find out more about volunteering in the Galapagos Islands.  




Voluntary Work in Ecuador for Green Progress with CRACYP
Volunteer Opportunities and working holidays in Sustainable Rural Development
Volunteering with Community Reforestation Projects to Protect the Environment in Ecuador

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