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.
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
