| ocation : |
Honduras |
| Activity : |
Volunteer Vacations, Ecotourism |
| Price : |
From $1015 |
| Departures : |
Year-Round
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| Duration : |
7 - 84 days |
| Lodging : |
Home Stays, Cabins/Huts |
| Ability Level : |
Moderate |
| Minimum Age : |
18 |
| Group Size : |
1 - 10 |
| Interest : |
Solo Travelers, Couples |
Volunteer Vacations in Honduras Located near Tela and other beach towns on the Caribbean coast, Lancetilla is the worlds second largest botanical garden. Slowly recovering from the devastation of Hurricane Mitch in 1998, you could provide valuable help to put the district back on track. Working alongside park rangers and researchers, you might replant saplings, clear trails, or help with general maintenance work. When not working, you can laze on the beaches or explore and enjoy Honduran culture.
Why the project needs volunteers: Lancetilla only receives twelve percent of its budget from the Honduran Government and although it is very productive as a research center it has become mostly self-sufficient and to a large extent dependent on help from volunteers. Also, with the effects of global warming and also deforestation becoming a bigger threat, extra effort is needed to preserve what remains.
About i-to-i
i-to-i specialise in providing meaningful travel experiences and short course TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) training. We send over 5,000 people a year to work with important volunteer projects on 5 continents, we've trained more than 50,000 people to teach English as a foreign language and in the last 12 months we have helped more than 1,000 people find well paid teaching jobs overseas. We believe that travel should be beneficial to everyone involved, which is why we work closely with locally run projects and travel partners. All of our travel experiences involve an element of volunteering. Travel with i-to-i and you'll spend time with local people, work with locally run volunteer projects and live in locally run accommodation. You'll have a truly unique travel experience and return home knowing that you have made a real and lasting difference to the lives and futures of the friends you've made along the way.
