How about volunteer travel abroad? Is it comfortable to travel abroad?

Nowadays, many friends are not limited to traveling in China, and many of them go abroad to play, but we all know that if we go abroad to play, we must bring enough money. What should we do without money? Let's take a look with Xiaobian. How about volunteering abroad? Is it comfortable to travel abroad?

Being a volunteer may not be as beautiful as everyone imagined. It may be that the living conditions are very 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 traveling, and it is these imperfections that make this trip particularly meaningful. Different from the punch-in spots, volunteer life can make you stop and experience the life of a place in depth. Instead of just hearing about the 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 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.

Suitable: want to stay in one place

Not suitable: you want to move

Youth volunteers are also a kind of volunteer travel. There are many volunteer websites in the world, one of which is called helpx, with an all-English interface, and the membership fee of $2 is managed for two years. According to the country and place, different types of volunteers are classified. Volunteer ways include: youth tours, farms, organic farms, bread workshops, family needs nannies, zoos, racecourses, etc., only you can't think of it, there is nothing that doesn't exist.

Rules:

1 There is no need to pay the registration fee

When I was in Latin America, some volunteers asked you to pay or charge $1 a day in the name of looking for volunteers, which changed the nature. Volunteer is your time and labor, and he provides you with accommodation without paying your salary, so you don't need to go out for any extra expenses

2. Generally, you work 4-5 hours a day, and you can take two days off a week. < P > The boss only provides accommodation without paying you, and you are not legally employed and employed, so he has no right to ask you to work 7 hours a day and 6 days a week.

the advantage of p>Helpx website is that volunteers can leave comments, so if you have good English, you'd better choose the opportunity with good comments. If he asks you to work longer hours than you normally get paid to work, unless you are Lei Feng, you'd better consider the rationality

3. The commitment period needs you

Generally, a week is too short. This depends on the boss's request, half a month, one month, two months, and half a year, depending on the situation. 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 have to keep your promise.

Personally, if you want to rest in a place after traveling for a period of time, you can choose youth travel volunteers. Some places in China, such as Lhasa and Yunnan, are good choices. These local inns have many youth tours, many demands and a volunteer culture.

You can contact me in advance on the volunteer exchange website abroad. Ask clearly what needs to be asked, such as:

How many people are staying? Work content? Working hours? How to eat? Is there wifi? Time, etc

have you asked me if I have ever traveled with youth volunteers? I usually move a lot when traveling, and rarely stay in one place for a long time. But I have stayed in inns in China and America, one is Honduras, and the other is El Salvador, which is the lowest dangerous country in the world. I didn't find the opportunity on the volunteer network, but all kinds of coincidences. One of them was a second-generation immigrant from Hong Kong who opened a restaurant and hotel. I taught his children Mandarin and exchanged accommodation. It happened that I stayed there for a week waiting for a plane to fly to Colombia.

someone asked, I am old, can I volunteer to travel? When I was in Belize, I met a 55-year-old British man who worked in plants. 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. In McDonald's in China, I see that there are also aunts selling ice cream, which is in line with the United States in 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, open your mind and train of thought, think about what value you can provide and 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 is not so related to money, but to time. Of course, time is also money. When traveling abroad, I had a volunteer experience, such as in the love home in India, in the jungle family in Amazon (I was particularly looking for volunteer opportunities in Amazon rainforest at that time), in any meaningful and interesting place you can think of, not limited to youth tours and farms (I worked as a volunteer teacher in Maya school in Guatemala). There are many interesting organizations in the world. Go and find one. Such an in-depth experience of dealing with local people will bring you a different routine tour from seeing the scenery. Experience the youth and life you want. Long live the youth. People who toss about will not always find channels for volunteer travel in China. Most of them are in the classified channels of "Volunteer Travel" in Douban and Post Bar. The bad thing is that they can't conduct special search according to regional time. Fortunately, the volume is large and meets the immediate needs.