Volunteer Projects
Globalteer is a UK Charity providing volunteer placements overseas in community and conservation projects
At this time, Globalteer has overseas volunteer opportunities at the following projects:
Peru Kids Project
The Peru Kids volunteer project is based in the magnificent city of Cusco, the oldest continually inhabited city in South America and the staging post for Machu Picchu. The project includes orphanages, centre for trafficked children and a community library.
Volunteer duties: Assist the local staff to teach Spanish or English. Play sports, arts, teach the children vocational skills. Carry out manual work to improve the orphanages, painting, decorating, building a play area or gardening. Organise games and fun activities to occupy the children, help with homework, help with feeding the children.
Colombia Kids Project
The Colombia Kids volunteer project is based in the Andes mountain range in the vibrant city of Medellin. The project includes an outreach programme for the street children, free education programme and day centres. The project focuses on the young and vulnerable to assist them in finding a way out of the trap of poverty and to train them in vocational skills so that they can become contributing members to their families and society.
Volunteer duties: The children are provided with English classes, lessons in Spanish, arts, music, sports and various vocational training. Most of the children at this project would otherwise spend their days on the streets so all skills to keep the children entertained and happy are welcome.
Cambodia Kids Project
The Cambodia Kids volunteer project is located in Siem Reap near the UNESCO designated site of the Angkor Temples. The project is dedicated to the care and education of the poorest and most vulnerable children of Cambodia. The project supports a free education programme for the children, homes for orphans and vulnerable children, vocational training, day centres for street kids, community support, sports and arts.
Volunteer duties: Teach English and help out in the day centre or orphanages. Assist the local staff, play games, sing songs, art projects and become a mentor to the children.
Thailand Wildlife Rescue
The Thailand Wild Animal Rescue Centre is dedicated to the rescue and re-habilitation of Thailand's wildlife. Many of Thailand's animals are illegally traded, abused in the tourist industry or maltreated. The rescue centre was established to provide these animals with a safe home as close to their natural environment as possible.
Volunteer duties: Preparing food for the bears, moving them inside and then scattering and hiding the food in their enclosure to provide a environment close to natural as possible where they would need to forage for food. Preparing food and feeding the primates. Creating the special diets for the other animals. Enrichment for the animals to provide stimulation, thought and fun. Including making puzzle feeders and watching as the primates work out how to get to the food inside, freezing their food on hot days, or smearing honey in hard to reach areas in the bears enclosure. Cleaning the cages and enclosures. Providing the animals with water. Walking in the forest to collect the best leaves for the primates. Maintaining the centre.
Thailand Elephant Project
The Thailand Elephant volunteer project gives a safe sanctuary to Thailand's domesticated elephants. These animals would otherwise be roaming the streets of big cities, be kept in bad conditions at working elephant camps or be otherwise exploited in the tourist industry.
Volunteer duties: Early morning walk to collect the elephants from their night location in the forest. Bathing and swimming with the elephants in the lake or river. Walking the elephants into the forest to forage. Collecting fruits for their big appetites. Cleaning their enclosure at the centre. Washing the elephants with hose pipes. Learning all about these gentle giants.
Cambodia Elephant Forest
The Elephant Forest Conservation project is located in Mondulkiri province, Cambodia. The project is dedicated to helping the domestic elephant population and conserving their habitat. The project primarily works with the tribal Bunong peoples to help them, help their elephants.
Volunteer duties: Learning about the project and the elephants. Learning how to control the elephant. Early morning walk to collect the elephants from their overnight location in the forest. Walking the elephants into the forest to forage and ensure that nobody encroaches on the protected land to illegally log the trees. Bathing and cleaning the elephants. Collecting rare orchids from recently logged areas before the land is burnt and the orchids are lost. Working with the local Bunong staff to improve the living conditions of the elephants.
Cambodia Bunong Hill Tribe
The Bunong Community project is located in the remote Mondulkiri province. The project focuses on supporting the Bunong people through education and income generation also providing healthcare, decent living conditions and additional activities such as sports, arts and field trips.
Volunteer duties: Volunteers will assist with English classes at the craft shop and assist with the conversational English and recreational activities at the Bunong centre. The mornings may be spent preparing for lessons, assisting with the cataloguing of the resource centre, accompanying a guide on their tour or simply enjoying the tranquillity of Sen Monoron. This is a very varied and dynamic project and volunteer's skills will be used to the best of their abilities to support the project. Sometimes the dormitory may need a lick of paint or it may be time to plant the student's vegetable garden.
Cambodia Forest Steward
The Cambodia Forest Steward Programme is based in Mondulkiri Province, Cambodia and works in conjunction with the Cambodia Elephant Forest Conservation Project. Volunteers support the projects efforts to protect the forest in which the elephants live.
Volunteer duties: Walking in the forest to document illegal activities such as hunting, logging and land grabbing. Walking in the forest to map wildlife signs, footpaths, rivers and streams, key geographic locations and valuable and rare trees. Walking with the elephants into the forest to forage and ensure that nobody encroaches on the protected land to illegally log the trees. Collecting rare orchids from recently logged areas before the land is burnt and the orchids are lost. Working with the local Bunong staff to improve the living conditions of the elephants through seed planting and the development of a tree nursery.
Indonesia Wildlife Rescue
Volunteer to help save the wildlife of Asia. The Indonesian Wildlife Rescue Centre is located in exotic Sulawesi Island. The project is a rescue, rehabilitation and release centre for animals saved from the illegal wildlife trade.
Volunteer duties: Volunteers prepare and give food to the animals, clean a variety of enclosures and refill water containers. Volunteers also collect local grasses, seeds or leaves for the animals and provide life enrichment to stimulate animals in the form of new challenges for food or novel items in the enclosure. Upgrading enclosures, maintenance of enclosures and special assignments at the direction of the project manager.