- http://www.worktravelcompany.co.uk - The Work & Travel Company provides opportunities for people taking time out of working and studying to travel and work around the world
Australia
- Age 18 – 30? You can obtain a working holiday visa for up to 12 months. Click here for a great choice of programmes to help you work and travel in Australia .
- Age 31+? Never mind! We can still help with a tourist visa, insurance and other great stuff. How about joining Conservation Volunteers for a few weeks?.
USA
New Zealand
- Age 18 – 30? Like Australia, you can obtain a working holiday visa for up to 12 months. We can find you work and get you set up with all you need.
- Age 31+? Not to worry, we can still offer some great options on a tourist visa.
Southern Africa: Wild at Heart
- Anyone over 18 can join our amazing volunteer programme. How about helping a sick or orphaned cheetah at Noah's Ark, teaching local children, or helping build community projects.
- Join a safari or tour, combine this with a volunteer project.
Central & South America
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru
- Learn Spanish, 3 or 4 weeks.
- Volunteer projects, nature conservation, community help, teaching.
Volunteer projects, learn Spanish, teach English, travel around…
Who can go?
There are very few restrictions on who can join us in South America. You will need to be reasonably fit, but basically anyone 18 – 70 can join.
A Language Course, a Volunteer Project, or both?
Unless you are fluent in Spanish you must join a language course for 3 or 4 weeks, or longer if you choose. There are several levels of instruction according to your ability. Most participants join a pre-arranged volunteer project after the language course, but if you choose you can travel around instead before you join a volunteer project.
Types of Volunteer Projects
Projects fall into three categories: Social/educational, Nature/environmental and Cultural. You choose the type of placement and the country. Examples of placements are:
Social/Teaching/Healthcare
- Guatemala/Brazil: Working with street children, teaching and caring for them.
- Argentina: working with families of political prisoners
- Bolivia: Working to provide aid and care for blind people of all ages.
- Costa Rica: Teacher assistant in primary school.
- Ecuador: Supporting and counseling women with a variety of problems.
- Mexico: Working with a private clinic catering to all types of patients.
Nature/Environmental
- Bolivia: animal rescue centre. Volunteers feed, care for and protect the animals.
- Costa Rica: many projects working with the environment: animals, birds, flowers.
- Ecuador: maintain the forest trails, make signs and do research in the cloud forest.
Cultural
- Argentina: Art Museum Genaro Perez, help with planning and designing shows.
- Bolivia: Museo de los Ninos Tanga, help with art projects for children
- Costa Rica/Guatemala: Habitat for Humanity, helping construct new houses, all types of work involved with building, planning and working with families.
Professional internship placements
- Argentina/Mexico/Peru/Brazil: in travel agencies, govt agencies, hotels, computers, healthcare, engineering, journalism and more.
