VOLUNTOURISM
servetheworldtoday.com/world-citizens-travel-guide/what-is-voluntourism/
www.tourcert.org/en/voluntourism/
See samples:
https://www.volunteerworld.com/en
interesting example: https://www.volunteerworld.com/en/volunteer-program/hostel-helper-in-cape-verde-mindelo
TASK: PRESENT THE WEBSITE AND VOLUNTEERWORLD PROPOSALS
https://www.gvi.co.uk/volunteer-abroad/
https://www.lunaria.org/
https://www.workaway.info/
see also: https://bbclasses.weebly.com/quel-paese.html
Discussion:
What is Voluntourism?
"Voluntourism means volunteering your time, skills, and energy with an organization, issue, or causes to help make a difference in communities around the world as part of your vacation package. “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Gandhi
"Voluntourism means volunteering your time, skills, and energy with an organization, issue, or causes to help make a difference in communities around the world as part of your vacation package."
"Voluntourism is a new way of traveling that is becoming increasing popular around the world. Voluntourism is when people volunteer overseas while they travel. It is similar to “eco-tourism” in a way, because the objective of improving lives is still present. But unlike eco-tourism, voluntourism is aimed at helping the others".
Discuss these definitions and try to answer the following questions:
In which way(s) are Eco-tourism and Voluntourism connected? What are the similarities and differences? (think about duration, destinations, types of activities, connection to local people, budget...) Find examples of Volutourism experiences: what do they offer? do you have to pay? why and what for? are there ways you could pay less?
TASK: Present options in a 1-min speech: you can start from one of the websites listed above (or any other you want) and give an overview of what is presented.
www.tourcert.org/en/voluntourism/
See samples:
https://www.volunteerworld.com/en
interesting example: https://www.volunteerworld.com/en/volunteer-program/hostel-helper-in-cape-verde-mindelo
TASK: PRESENT THE WEBSITE AND VOLUNTEERWORLD PROPOSALS
https://www.gvi.co.uk/volunteer-abroad/
https://www.lunaria.org/
https://www.workaway.info/
see also: https://bbclasses.weebly.com/quel-paese.html
Discussion:
What is Voluntourism?
"Voluntourism means volunteering your time, skills, and energy with an organization, issue, or causes to help make a difference in communities around the world as part of your vacation package. “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Gandhi
"Voluntourism means volunteering your time, skills, and energy with an organization, issue, or causes to help make a difference in communities around the world as part of your vacation package."
"Voluntourism is a new way of traveling that is becoming increasing popular around the world. Voluntourism is when people volunteer overseas while they travel. It is similar to “eco-tourism” in a way, because the objective of improving lives is still present. But unlike eco-tourism, voluntourism is aimed at helping the others".
Discuss these definitions and try to answer the following questions:
In which way(s) are Eco-tourism and Voluntourism connected? What are the similarities and differences? (think about duration, destinations, types of activities, connection to local people, budget...) Find examples of Volutourism experiences: what do they offer? do you have to pay? why and what for? are there ways you could pay less?
TASK: Present options in a 1-min speech: you can start from one of the websites listed above (or any other you want) and give an overview of what is presented.
MAKE YOUR PROPOSALS
Find on the Internet a proposal for a volunteering experience for ONE of the following persons:
Jackson – 20 years old; he will graduate from High School next June and does not know whether he wants to take Engineering or IT at University. He wishes to spend between 5 to 8 weeks volunteering in South America or Asia. He loves music and sports; he trains a
team of 7-year-old footballers. He speaks English and Spanish.
Mary – 22 years old. Mary studies Biology at the University of Edinburgh and she is looking for a volunteering program in Conservation, better in Africa. She has a passion for nature and wildlife and, if possible, she would like to stay away for about 6 months.
Laura – 17 years old. She is a student at a vocational school for Hospitality in Amsterdam and she would like to find a short-term volunteering program (between 2 to 5 weeks long) in order to improve her English but also to do something useful. She is a fan of Greta Thunberg and she would love to be involved in some project meant to protect the Environment.
BROWSE THE INTERNET
FIND THE RIGHT PROPOSAL(S)
1. WRITE AN EMAIL TO THE PERSON(S) IN WHICH YOU DESCRIBE THE MOST SUITABLE VOLUNTOURISM EXPERIENCE
2. With the help of your notes record an AUDIO file in which you report all the useful information. Where, what, when, how long, how much, who … with, why.
Find on the Internet a proposal for a volunteering experience for ONE of the following persons:
Jackson – 20 years old; he will graduate from High School next June and does not know whether he wants to take Engineering or IT at University. He wishes to spend between 5 to 8 weeks volunteering in South America or Asia. He loves music and sports; he trains a
team of 7-year-old footballers. He speaks English and Spanish.
Mary – 22 years old. Mary studies Biology at the University of Edinburgh and she is looking for a volunteering program in Conservation, better in Africa. She has a passion for nature and wildlife and, if possible, she would like to stay away for about 6 months.
Laura – 17 years old. She is a student at a vocational school for Hospitality in Amsterdam and she would like to find a short-term volunteering program (between 2 to 5 weeks long) in order to improve her English but also to do something useful. She is a fan of Greta Thunberg and she would love to be involved in some project meant to protect the Environment.
BROWSE THE INTERNET
FIND THE RIGHT PROPOSAL(S)
1. WRITE AN EMAIL TO THE PERSON(S) IN WHICH YOU DESCRIBE THE MOST SUITABLE VOLUNTOURISM EXPERIENCE
2. With the help of your notes record an AUDIO file in which you report all the useful information. Where, what, when, how long, how much, who … with, why.