Volunteer Opportunity: One Week Volunteerships + $5,000 Grant
Lets see, what can you do in a week? Get a great tan laying on the beach, organize your closet, maybe build a tree house? OR-you can change your life (and the lives of countless needy others) forever.
Cross Cultural Solutions, a well-established volunteer network, is currently offering week-long volunteer programs in the following locations (from October to December): Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Peru, Morocco and Russia. These short programs are perfect for commitment-phobes. All of these countries have struggling economies which have lead to widespread unemployment. Unfortunately, when money gets tight, children and seniors are seen as baggage and are often neglected. Volunteers are assigned care-taking and educational duties aimed to aide this left out demographic. The obvious benefit of volunteering is helping others but have you seen Costa Rica or Brazil? The natural beauty of these places alone grabs us by the balls.
Although this program is not free (currently, $1,853 plus airfare), CCS is partnered with travelocity.com and they offer up to $5,000 in grants for volunteers interested in this program. Apply for the grant here. Also, check out their website for other ways to finance your trip.
What’s a week? Tanning will give you cancer and the tree house can wait.
Written By: Anna Starostinetskaya
Head Writer/Editor-in-Chief of Off Track Planet. Pescatarians are not just cheating vegetarians; we're our own breed and the extra protein makes us more feisty! Rawr
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