Description:
Program sites include: Costa Rica, Brazil, Peru, Cuba, Thailand, Nepal, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and India.
Globe Aware expeditions provide volunteers the opportunity to live and work side by side with a host community. The hosts provide a safe and interesting setting in which to learn, help, and have fun. The volunteers help to empower the host communities in creating renewable, self-sufficient programs. While Globe Aware's financial assistance benefits the community economically, it is actually the involvement and collaboration between the volunteers and community that is the greatest mutual benefit. The work is varied (public health, education, hygiene, light infrastructure projects) and can encompass everything from helping a rural Samba School in Brazil prepare their floats and costumes for Carnival, playing English word games with Peruvian children, planting trees in India, to painting a community center in Costa Rica, amongst many other activities. Work projects are chosen based on meeting 3 criteria: safe, interesting, and of genuine benefit to the community. No special skills are required of the volunteers, other than a willingness to help. The weekly itinerary is a highly organized balance of work and recreation activities, all designed to promote cross-cultural awareness.
Highlights:
Immersing yourself in a new culture in a unique way, learning how to cook local cuisine, exploring the natural environmental wonders of the host community, and most especially befriending the wonderful people and fellow volunteers.
Qualifications / Skills Needed:
Willingness to learn and to teach.
Travel Types:
BackPacking Abroad,
Birdwatching,
Camping,
Canoeing,
Climbing,
Cooking,
Cycling (Mountain),
Eco Tours,
Ecology,
Environmental Studies,
Heritage Tourism,
Homestay,
Native Culture Studies,
Nature Tours,
Off Road / 4X4 Driving,
Overland Tours,
Photography,
RainForest Tours,
Snorkeling,
Student Tours,
Tours
and Trekking
Language:
English
Cost in US$: about 1,000
Cost Includes:
Excursions,
Food,
Housing,
In-country staff support,
Medical insurance,
Registration fees
and Travel while in host country
The fee for your program covers the cost of your meals, accommodation, on-site travel (but not airfare), emergency medical evacuation, medical insurance, donations to the various community projects, your orientation package, volunteer coordination, program development, country manager expenses, community team recruitment, logistical support and project consultants.
Experience Required: no
Typical Volunteer Projects:
AIDS,
childcare/children,
community centers,
community development,
community health,
community organizing,
computer training,
consciousness-raising,
conservation,
cooking,
culture,
eco-tourism,
economic development,
education,
elderly,
English teaching,
family planning,
festivals,
fixing fences,
food,
gardening,
grassroots organization,
health,
health care,
health education,
historic preservation,
home visit,
homelessness,
hospital,
housing,
human rights,
income-generation,
indigenous issues,
infrastructure planning,
medicine,
natural resources,
nutrition,
organizational development,
orphans,
painting,
peace,
playgrounds,
primary education,
public education,
recreation,
reforestation,
relief,
renovation,
repairs,
research,
restoration,
self help,
seniors,
small business development,
solar & hydro projects,
strategic planning,
street kids,
teaching,
technical assistance,
tourism,
trail building,
translation,
tree planting,
volunteer management,
volunteering,
women
and youth development
Typical Volunteer: The typical Globe Aware volunteer is a busy, working professional between the ages of 25 and 45, who has very limited vacation time throughout the year, but has a real desire to contribute, give back, and make a positive difference in the world. Typically they have no particular specialised skills, nor do they usually speak other languages, but they have a willingness to learn and to teach, and are open to the culture around them.
Age Range: 10 and above
This Program is open to
Worldwide
Participants.
This Program is also open to
Families, Couples and Individuals.
Typical Living Arrangement:
Group living
Participants Travel to - Multi-Country
Independently
Typically Participants Work
in Groups of 10
Application Process Involves:
- Other
- Phone Interview
- Written Application
Typically The Application Process Time Is 2 to 7 days
Post Services Include:
Globe Aware's Mission Statement: Globe Aware seeks to promote lifelong advocates for a better world and to sustain the world's cultural and natural resources. The organization, together with the local community hosts, develops effective local solutions to global problems in non-religious, non-political, multi-international environments. The aim is to expand and foster cross-cultural peace and understanding between Americans and the rest of the world, to preserve culture and promote sustainability. Globe Aware expeditions provide volunteers the opportunity to live and work side by side with a host community. The hosts provide a safe and interesting setting in which to learn, help, and have fun. The volunteers help to empower the host communities in creating renewable, self-sufficient programs. While Globe Aware's financial assistance benefits the community economically, it is actually the involvement and collaboration between the volunteers and community that is the greatest mutual benefit.
Year Founded: 2001