Win a volunteer vacation to South Africa from Keen

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I've been taking voluntourism vacations for the lasts 5 years including one solid year of world travel as a volunteer. Now I even teach classes on global volunteering. i do wonder if i-to-i has improved their program as there were many problems in South Africa: food, projects, organization and very little of the money for these costly vacations was actually used to help the projects. I dont' think anyone of the 10 volunteers who went with them would ever use them again. It would be great to have some publicity for all of the grassroots sanctuaries and projects that are not expensive and yet provide opportunities to volunteer.

7-23-2009 @ 10:23PM

Matthew Falk said...

Joyce do you have any recommendations for finding volunteer opportunities in South-East Asia, specifically Cambodia and Laos? I've been looking for something I can do for a week or so as it want to work it into a larger trip. My preference is working with kids but anything worthwhile would work. I can't find anything that I don't have to pay an absurd amount of money for. I don't think I should have to pay for the opportunity to volunteer. Of course I don't expect room and board either.

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