PRETOMA: Looking after turtles in Costa Rica

The Programa Restauracion de Tortugas Marinas (PRETOMA) has been looking after turtles in Costa Rica for over a decade. The organisation was setup in 1996 to assist with the yearly nesting of turtles on some of Costa Rica’s beaches. The turtles are diminishing in numbers and PRETOMA offers placements where volunteers look after and care [...]

Inspire Kenya: Animal conservation and community work

Inspire Kenya is an organisation that as Matthew Muckle, who founded and owns the company states: “Offers volunteering breaks for people to go and do worthwhile things in Kenya.” These worthwhile projects include working with orphans, wildlife conservation and Inspire Kenya now offers media placements at the Kenyan Times.
The company has been going since 2006 [...]

Quest underseas: responsible and sustainable dive ecotourism

Chris Williams
Operations Manager, Quest Underseas
http://www.questoverseas.com/underseas/
What does your organisation offer?
Offers people a chance to research marine conservation and get diving experience at the same time, in an ethical way because they are giving something back to the community.
Where do you run trips?
We have two destinations, Honduras and Mozambique.
We try to run trips that allow our volunteers [...]

Andean Outreach Programme: profile

Shona Kay
UK Director
Andean Outreach Programme
Been involved with helping setup the UK branch of Andean Outreach, I volunteered in South America and got really involved with my placement.
Our main aim is to source funds for volunteers who plan to go to Peru, Ecuador, Chile etc and undertake projects to help the local people. Volunteers apply to [...]

Habitat for Humanity: profile

Some information on Habitat for Humanity. Read the interview with Nathaniel Rogers who went with HFH to Alaska.
What is Habitat for Humanity?
Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit, non-denominational Christian housing charity. Our goal is to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action. We [...]

The Leap: gap year placements

Guy Whitehead
The Leap
1. What does The Leap do?
Check out our website
2. What sort of age profile The Leap caters for?
18 – 60
3. Why has taking a ‘career gap’ become so popular?
People like it, employers are more interested in helping staff, it keeps
people fresh and is a good tool for retaining key staff
4. Do you have [...]

CAS Nepal

1. What does your organization do?
CAS-Nepal is a non-profit making, non-political community based organization. It was registered with Nepal Government-Chitwan in 2000 & with Social Welfare Council-Nepal in 2001 by highly enthusiastic board members. The primary goal of CAS-Nepal is to make community self -dependent & developed through utilization of local, national and international resources [...]

i-to-i profile

Jo Little
i-to-I press officer
Organisation profile
1. What does i-to-i do?
i-to-i is the world leader in ethical volunteer travel and TEFL
(teaching English as a foreign language) training. We send 5,000 people
a year to work with 500 community, teaching, sports, media and
conservation projects in 32 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America
and Australasia. We offer the most widely recognised [...]

Andante travel: meaningful archaelogical holidays

Joanna Lawson
Marketing manager
Andante travels
“We’re an archaeological travel company, set up in 1985, and owned and run by archaeologists. We run tours all over the world to ancient monuments, and each tour has a guide who is a respect archaeologist.
“The company was started by Dr Annabell Lawson, who started showing people around Stonehenge and sights in [...]

VSO: Leona Daly

Leona Daly
Press Officer
VSO

What does VSO do?

We’ve been in operation for 50 years and we’ve developed as we’ve gone along. We send workers to 34 countries, and we’ve sent 30,000 skilled volunteers overseas since we started.

There are six key areas we send volunteers into:

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