Looking for cheap/affordable volunteer opportunities abroad?
October 13th, 2006 by choim
For the last few weeks, I’ve been doing research on various humanitarian organizations to look for some cheap/affordable volunteer opportunities overseas. As I am planning to take a break from my company BoomYEAH (an online yellow page), I wanted to see whether I can do some service while taking a break at the same time.
There were a few sites that cost anywhere from $2000-$3500 for volunteering. Usually, regardless of where you go (Peru, Ecuador, China, India, Thailand, Australia, Italy, etc), the price is about the same. After much research, I finally found an organization that cost only $200-$500! The website is vfp.org (vfp stands for Volunteer for Peace).
If you want to do some humanitarian work, you should definitely check out Volunteer for Peace. They have hundreds of workcamps/projects that you can participate anytime of the year. The one I am thinking about doing is one in China, teaching some students and working at a village called Xinjing.