Volunteering Vagabond

Links for Change is a new enterprise that links volunteers and charities worldwide. There can be time, energy and stress involved in trying to find a suitable volunteering placement and thats why they formed Links for Change. Links for Change provide a low, fixed fee service to potential volunteers regardless of location, length or type [...]

I came across Illuminatedmind.net somewhere on the web one day and I am so glad that I have.  Jonathan is just 23 and so incredibly inspirational in so many ways.  He’s a real thinker, observer and crusader.  He will shake up your thinking and get you moving. One of his free e-books is about how [...]

My next volunteer project I want to do is in Costa Rica, while researching the options for free and low-fee volunteer opportunities in South America, I came across this fantastic resource online. http://www.volunteersouthamerica.net/ It lists many free and low-cost volunteer project in South America as well as other great volunteering resources online. Definitely in my [...]

[This is a comment I wrote in reply to Todd's post about "real life", travel and work" and I wanted to share it with you] I was in my mid 20′s, having been working since I was 15, when I realized that being desk bound and having someone telling me what to do everyday inside [...]

Ive just spent six weeks in Southern Thailand namely Phuket, Ko Phi Phi, Ko Lanta and Krabi.  Thailand is an incredible country and this is what I learned from my time there.  I came with a decent amount of money and didnt scrimp and save or stay in dodgy places to save money.  We always [...]

My first foreign volunteering holiday was at the Gibbon Rehabilitation Project in Phuket, Thailand.  I booked for 4 weeks, got my (expensive) jabs, packed the bare minimum of clothes and set off nervous and excited. I got to the airport a day late…  Then my flight was delayed from Singapore…  When I was picked up [...]

After the hectic four days on Phi Phi, we found ourselves one traveller less and on Koh Lanta at the Kantiang Bay View Resort which is on the lower left side of the island.  The Resort is on the beach and I mean, there are about 10mtrs from the bungalow to the sand.  Its a [...]

The last time I experienced humidity like this was when I spent a week in Indonesia which is similar but not like Thailand (“same same but different”). If that make’s sense. Im stationed in northern Phuket about 30mins in traffic to Phuket Town. Im living on the Gibbon Rehabilitation Project‘s compound where they also have [...]