Volunteering Opens up All These Opportunities, and This Book Has All the Advice You Need to Get You There
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Are you looking for a more meaningful travel experience? Do you want to give back to the communities you visit, make a genuine connection with locals, meet like-minded travellers and build your skills? International volunteering opens up all these opportunities, and this book has all the advice you need to get you there. Much more than just a resource directory, Volunteer is packed with invaluable information and full-colour inspiration to get you planning your perfect short- or long-term volunteer A Traveller’s Guide to Making a Difference Around the World experience anywhere in the world – whether it’s monitoring sea turtles in Greece, helping set up handicraft businesses in Ghana or building community centres in Guatemala! Features: ~ Unique, user-friendly structure arranged by type of volunteering programme World the Around a Difference A Traveller’s Guide to Making ~ Over 170 organisations listed and reviewed ~ Dozens of seasoned volunteers share their experiences and top tips ~ Written by passionate, well-travelled Lonely Planet authors advised by a team of experts in the field ~ Fully illustrated with colour photographs of volunteers in action www.lonelyplanet.com US $19.99 UK £12.99 2nd Edition A Traveller’s Guide to Making a Difference Around the World Contents 01: INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEERING: Taxation & National Insurance 83 06: STRUCTURED & SELF-FUNDING Choosing a Mutually Beneficial AN OvERviEW 8 House 83 VOLUNTEER PROGRAMMES 148 Placement 224 Why Volunteer? 9 Vehicle 86 How Do They Work? 149 Further Preparation 224 Kinds of International Volunteering 11 Partner & Children 87 Pros & Cons 153 Maximising Your Contribution 225 ORGANISATION LISTINGS 157 Directories & Useful Organisations 225 02: CHOOSING YOUR VOLUNTEER Power of Attorney 88 Grass-roots Charities & Non-profits 228 EXPERIENCE 23 Voting 88 Development Placements 157 Useful Websites 231 Arranging a Worthwhile Placement 23 Technology & Communications 88 Volunteering Unwrapped 164 From Mongolia to Laos on a Summary of Questions 40 Useful Websites 88 Conservation & Wildlife Placements 171 Volunteering Adventure 232 Painted Lines 173 Do You Have What it Takes? 41 05: ORGANISED VOLUNTEER 09: COMING HOME 233 More Information 45 PROGRAMMES 90 Skilled Volunteering 182 Options for the Under 30s 187 Leaving 234 03: THE PRACTicALITIES 46 How Do They Work? 91 Twelve Months in Uganda 190 Reverse Culture Shock 234 Application & Selection 46 Pros & Cons 92 Settling Back In 235 Raising the Money 48 Major International Placement 07: RELIGIOUS ORGANISATIONS 194 Programmes 94 Next Steps 240 Preparation 52 How Do They Work? 195 ORGANISATION LISTINGS 98 Airline Tickets 54 Pros & Cons 197 10: START YOUR OWN Options for the Under 30s 98 Passports, Visas & Travel Insurance 57 Building Bridges 198 CHARITABLE PROJECT 243 Volunteering Plus 113 What to Pack 60 ORGANISATION LISTINGS 199 The Idea 244 An AYAD Tells Her Story 116 Health & Hygiene 64 Development Placements 199 Go For It! 248 Volunteering Holidays 120 Money 69 The Mother of Volunteering 202 Getting It Rolling 251 Volunteering as a Staff Member 125 Keeping in Touch 73 A Healthy Dose 254 Development Placements 126 08: DO-IT-YOURSELF VOLUNTEER If It All Goes Wrong 75 Acknowledgements 259 Conservation & Wildlife Placements 131 PLACEMENTS 215 Useful Websites 76 Index 261 Memories of Maqui 135 Is Do-It-Yourself Volunteering Right for You? 216 Destinations Index 266 04: TyiNG UP LOOSE ENDS 78 Skilled Volunteering 139 Pros & Cons of Going It Alone 217 Organisations Index 269 Job 78 Emergency & Relief 143 The Search Begins 219 Finances 80 An Emergency Relief Experience 146 2 3 Lonely Planet Authors Why is our travel information the best in the world? It’s simple: our authors are passionate, dedicated travellers. They take pride in getting all the details right, and in telling it how it is. They don’t take payment or freebies in exchange for positive coverage so you can be sure the advice you’re given is impartial. Authors CHARLOTTE HiNDLE NATE CAVALIERI RACHEL COLLINSON KORINA MiLLER MikE RicHARD Charlotte Hindle was coordi- When Charlotte helped Nate Cavalieri wrote the Rachel Collinson wrote the Korina wrote ‘Structured Mike Richard wrote the sec- nating author for this book, update the first edition ofT he ‘Organised Volunteer Pro- ‘Do-it-Yourself Volunteer & Self-Funding Volunteer tions of all chapters contain- and also wrote the following Gap Year Book she re-wrote grammes’ chapter. Placements’ chapter. Programmes’, ‘Religious ing information for American chapters: ‘International the ‘Volunteering & Conser- Nate’s entrée into the world While studying at univer- Organisations’ and ‘Start Your volunteers. Volunteering – An Overview’, vation’ chapter. Since then, of international volunteering sity, Rachel taught English Own Charitable Project’. Born and raised in the wilds ‘Choosing Your Volunteer Charlotte has been fasci- happened in 2002 when in Vienna, worked as a Korina grew up on of northern New England, Experience’, ‘The Practicali- nated by this sector and has he was a student at the counsellor on a children’s Vancouver Island. She Mike scribed his way through ties’ and ‘Coming Home’. written newspaper and travel Pop Wuj School in Quezal- summer camp in the packed her bags at 18 and two university history depart- During her gap year articles on it and organised tenango, Guatemala and he USA and volunteered hasn’t stopped travelling ments before succumbing Charlotte travelled overland debates and talks on the recently volunteered crack on outdoor residentials. the world since. En route to global wanderlust. He from England to Australia. In subject. Charlotte is waiting data entry skills to assist the So, when she embarked on she volunteered in India, in has worked and played in Melbourne, she temped as a for her two young daughters deployment of American a career break after seven rural Uttar Pradesh and with Honolulu, studied Japanese remote tribal communities in foot courier before landing a to be old enough to volunteer Red Cross volunteers to the years in international market- in Hakodate, and taught Jharkhand. She also worked job at Lonely Planet (LP). She with her: they plan to work Gulf Coast in 2005. Nate has ing, it was a natural choice English in Shanghai. Most with minorities in southwest worked at LP’s Head Office with street children in Latin volunteered and travelled ex- for her to spend a period recently, he served as a TEFL China on a sustainable for three years. In 1991 she America. tensively throughout Europe, doing volunteer work with Volunteer with the US Peace tourism development project; Charlotte is a freelance returned to England to set up Central and North America, children. In Ecuador she took ran an Asian arts charity in Corps in Romania. When he’s LP’s UK office which she ran travel journalist and photog- sometimes working as a on various roles in a home Vancouver; and managed not writing for Lonely Planet until June 2002. She then rapher. Over the years she musician and correspond- for street children and looked an intercultural arts charity or toiling away in a Federal took a mini-career break has written for the following ent to various publications after special-needs babies in in London. Korina studied Government cubicle, he can to spend the summer with LP guides: Australia, Mediter- including the Village Voice, an orphanage. Other volun- intercultural communica- be found sampling the cul- her growing family and to ranean Europe, Walking in Metro Times and Spin. This teering stints included visiting tions and development at ture of Washington, DC. consider more flexible, child- Britain, England and Britain is his first title with Lonely foreign nationals imprisoned Vancouver’s Simon Fraser friendly work options. Lonely and her photographs ap- Planet. He currently resides for drug trafficking and writ- University and has an MA in Planet then approached her pear in many others. She in Sacramento, California, ing a marketing plan for the migration studies from Sus- to contribute to the following also writes for Wanderlust where he works as a free- director of a remote national sex University. She’s been an books: The Gap Year Book; magazine, the Independent lance writer. park in Bolivia. Rachel’s side- author with Lonely Planet for The Career Break Book; and newspaper and The Family line in travel writing began in the past eight years, writing The Travel Writing Book. Travel Website. Australia during her career on everything from bears break. in the Canadian Rockies to street snacks in Beijing and beachcombing in Fiji. 4 5 Expert Advisors SARAH WiNTLE KATHERINE TUBB ANTHONY LUNCH DR KATE SiMPSON PAUL GOODYER Sarah Wintle wrote the ‘Tying Katherine is the founder Anthony taught in The Dr Kate Simpson has spent Paul Goodyer, CEO of Up Loose Ends’ chapter and of 2Way Development Gambia as a volunteer with over six years research- Nomad Travel Stores the sections of all chapters (www.2waydevelopment VSO in the 1960s. He went ing and working in the and Travel Clinics (www containing information for .com), an international to Oxford University and international volunteering .nomadtravel.co.uk), started Australasian volunteers. volunteer agency that places then joined Unilever, where industry. She has written travelling when he was 17. Sarah traded her backpack individual volunteers into he worked as a market- extensively about gap years Following a few bouts of ill for a suitcase marked development NGOs in Africa, ing manager in Belgium and international volunteer- health and disasters with ‘Bangkok’ as an Austral- Latin America and Asia. and UK. ing and has completed a dodgy travel equipment, he ian Youth Ambassador for Katherine was a volunteer Later he became MD of PhD on these subjects at set up Nomad in 1990. With Development (AYAD) in 2005 herself with VSO in Nepal the French multinational, the University of Newcastle five outlets combining and returned one year later where she worked for an Phildar UK, and then held upon Tyne.