How about volunteers traveling abroad? Are you comfortable traveling abroad?

How to travel abroad as a volunteer? Is it comfortable to travel abroad as a volunteer? Nowadays, many friends are not limited to traveling at home, and many of them go abroad to play, but we all know that if you go abroad to play, you must bring enough money. What if I have no money? Let's take a look at Bian Xiao.

How about volunteers traveling abroad? Are you comfortable traveling abroad?

In fact, volunteering may not be as beautiful as everyone thinks. The living conditions may be poor, the expected projects will continue to have problems, and it may even be difficult to accept some local cultures. ...

Volunteers can really bring people many things different from travel, and it is these imperfections that make such a journey particularly meaningful. Unlike punching in, volunteer life allows you to stop and experience life in a place. Instead of just hearing about this country from the news and other people's mouths, you can experience it yourself, explore it yourself, jump out of your comfort zone, and finally even have a place called the hometown on earth.

I thought young people nowadays should know about volunteer travel, but it seems not. Basically, young people in the west know backpacking, and volunteer travel is a way of backpacking.

Fit: Want to stay in one place.

Not suitable: you want to move.

Youth travel volunteers are also a kind of volunteer travel. There are many volunteer websites in the world, one of which is called helpx, which has an all-English interface and a two-year membership fee of $20. Volunteers are divided into different types according to countries and places. The ways of volunteering are: youth travel, farm, organic farm, bread workshop, family nanny, zoo, racetrack and so on. There are only things you can't imagine, and there is nothing that doesn't exist.

Rules:

1 No registration fee is required.

When you were in Latin America, some volunteers asked you to pay or charge a daily fee of 10 in the name of looking for volunteers, which changed the nature. Volunteers are your time and labor. He provides you with accommodation and doesn't pay you. There is no need to go out and spend any extra money.

Generally, I work 4-5 hours a day, and I can take two days off a week.

The boss doesn't pay you, only provides accommodation. You are not legally employed and employed, and he has no right to ask you to work 7 hours a day and 6 days a week.

The advantage of Helpx website is that volunteers can leave comments, so if your English is good, you'd better choose a good opportunity to comment. If he asks you to work overtime, unless you are Lei Feng, you'd better consider the rationality.

You need to promise a deadline.

A week is usually too short. It depends on the boss's request, half a month, one month, two months, six months, it depends. You'd better ask your boss before you go, and do it as soon as you accept the conditions and make a promise. Although you don't get paid, you should keep your promise.

Personally, if you want to rest in a place after a period of fatigue, you can choose youth travel volunteers. Some places in China, such as Lhasa and Yunnan, are good choices. These local hotels have a lot of youth tourism, many needs and volunteer culture.

In foreign countries, you can contact me in advance on the volunteer exchange website I mentioned. Ask what needs to be asked, such as:

How many rooms are there? Work content? Working hours? How to eat? Do you have wifi? Time and so on

You ask me if I have ever been traveled by young volunteers? I often move when traveling, and seldom stay in one place for a long time. But I have stayed in hotels in China and the United States, one is Honduras, the other is El Salvador, which is the least dangerous country in the world. I didn't find an opportunity on the volunteer network, but there were all kinds of coincidences. One of them is a second-generation immigrant from Hong Kong who has opened a restaurant and hotel. I teach his children Mandarin and exchange accommodation. It happened that I stayed there for a week, waiting for the plane to Colombia.

Someone asked, I am old, can I volunteer to travel? When I was in Belize, I met a 55-year-old Englishman who worked in a factory. When traveling, he went to some farms in Latin America to guide crop-related matters and exchange opportunities to eat and live on farms. The inn sometimes needs volunteers to cook. At McDonald's in China, I saw aunts selling ice cream, which is in line with the American practice of employing people without discriminating against age. This is also the regulation and culture of McDonald's, and employment does not discriminate against age. So age is not a problem, communicate more, open your mind and train of thought, think about what value you can provide, what benefits your value can bring to others, exchange what you want and try more. In fact, this is the same as looking for a job to talk about salary.

Open your mind and improve your English, and you will find that travel has nothing to do with money, but with time. Of course, time is also money. When I was traveling abroad, I had a volunteer experience, such as my loving home in India, my family in the jungle in Amazon (I especially wanted to find volunteer opportunities in the Amazon rainforest at that time), and any interesting place you can think of, not limited to youth trips and farms (I worked as a volunteer teacher in Maya school in Guatemala). There are many interesting organizations in the world. Go find one. Such an in-depth experience of dealing with local people will bring you a regular tour different from seeing the scenery. Walk through the youth and life you want, long live youth, and people who toss will never get old.

Channels to find volunteer travel in China: most of them are classified channels of "volunteer travel" in Douban and Post Bar. Unfortunately, it is impossible to conduct special search according to regional time. Fortunately, the volume is large, which meets the urgent needs.