In this series:

1. How to Volunteer Abroad for Less
2. How to Save Thousands by Organizing your Volunteer Trip on your own
3. 6 Steps to Organizing your own Volunteer Trip

Volunteering abroad is becoming a very popular way to travel the world. It gives you a great opportunity to get to know the people on a more personal level, while also giving something back to the country that so graciously hosts you. By volunteering, you work face to face with the people, and are given the opportunity to learn, first-hand, about the problems that they face. As a result you end your trip with real hands-on knowledge of what life is like in that small region of the world. It’s a kind of enlightenment that just doesn’t come from a 2 week vacation spent rushing around a country seeing all the “sites”.

Volunteering abroad is a relatively new idea that’s become more popular as tourists become more interesting in responsible tourism alternatives. Unfortunately, however, many first time volunteers are under the impression that volunteer work abroad is expensive. If you look up “volunteering abroad” or “volunteer in country X” on the internet, you come across a number of 3rd party booking organizations that set interested travelers up with different volunteer projects around the globe. They offer a service that basically does all the work for you, finding a volunteer project, setting you up with somewhere to live, providing you with language lessons if you desire, etc. The problem is that they also charge you 2-5 times what you would pay if you just organized the trip on your own. Read part 2 of this series for more information on How to Save Thousands by Organizing your Volunteer Trip on your own.

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