Volunteer Work in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia Recommendations to find Volunteer work If you look on the internet you can see that ‘volunteer work’ is growing fast in popularity and many tour agencies have noticed this. Even big tour operators now offer 3 weeks Peru, during which their customers can see the highlights of the country and do a few days of volunteer work… You can argue that even a few days of help is better than no help, but our experience with sustainable volunteer work is that you already need several days to actually get to know the job. Our biggest complain however is that several travel agencies offer volunteer work to earn more money. Volunteer work is becoming big business; unfortunately partly used to earn more money, reduce paying taxes and even gain more study points... Unfortunately we found out that many people have trouble finding reliable, well organized and sustainable volunteer projects. And when they do find small project, they often don’t dare to sign up for this project without the ‘support’ of a much bigger well known volunteer project, or even travel agency. This is where the big international companies gain their clients and money with. They offer and airport transfer and confidence (sometimes even false) that they would take care of these volunteers while they are abroad. Many volunteers easily pay 1000 US$ a month for this, while there’s often no need to do so. Usually about half of your payment actually even goes to the right volunteer project… With Fairtravel4u we want to offer an alternative. We want to use our experience in travelling and experience as a volunteer, to inform future volunteers about doing volunteer work in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. We are also in process of setting up a small network of
Volunteer Work in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia Recommendations to find Volunteer work If you look on the internet you can see that ‘volunteer work’ is growing fast in popularity and many tour agencies have noticed this. Even big tour operators now offer 3 weeks Peru, during which their customers can see the highlights of the country and do a few days of volunteer work… You can argue that even a few days of help is better than no help, but our experience with sustainable volunteer work is that you already need several days to actually get to know the job. Our biggest complain however is that several travel agencies offer volunteer work to earn more money. Volunteer work is becoming
