Why pay to volunteer?
Most people are surprised to hear that they would have to pay to volunteer abroad. What they often do not realize is that there are significant administrative costs involved to arrange for a worthwhile volunteer abroad placement. Volunteering abroad, envolves incurring of many costs such as food, accommodation, transportation, transfers, project selection etc. The program fee charged by us, goes into providing you all these services. The money that you pay to us is distributed at various stages to provide you a meaningful volunteer abroad experience.
You need to understand that your money makes difference to lives of many people attached in the programs directly or indirectly. NGO's get supported, host families can earn some extra income, local communities get uplifted by our support and donations. Read 'Our Achivements' to know more about how your money helps communities.
Money is also spent on:-
- Advertising Online/Offline
- Salaries for staff
- Communication with volunteers and partners, by phone/email etc.
- International travel done by our staff to monitor projects and attend local meetings with partners
- Website maintenance.
- Government taxes
- Credit Card processing charges
- In country maintenance of offices, vehicles etc
- Staff recruitment
- Volunteer recruitment
- Maintaining office and other expenses
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