Description:
Have fun while helping people! Globe Aware, a nonprofit organization, currently offers volunteer vacations in Peru, Costa Rica,Thailand, Cuba, Nepal, Brazil, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Jamaica, and Romania, Ghana and China. These short-term (one week) adventures in service focus on cultural-awareness and sustainability, and are often compared to a "mini peace corps". All program costs, including the cost of airfare, are tax-deductible. Globe Aware is a 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt charity.
You need no special skills nor do you need to speak any foreign language. Immerse yourself in a new culture. Enjoy befriending people in new and interesting countries and experience the reward of helping them on meaningful community projects.
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.
Language:
English
Cost in US$: about $1000
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,
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,
social services, social work,
solar & hydro projects,
strategic planning,
street kids,
teaching,
technical assistance,
tourism,
trail building,
translation,
tree planting,
volunteer management,
volunteering,
women,
youth
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 to 100
This Program is open to
World Wide
Participants.
This Program is also open to
Families, Couples and Individuals.
Typical Living Arrangement:
Group living
Participants Travel to Brazil
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