travel with purpose

[lyndylou]

Hi My sister and I plan to do a spot of holidaying together without the husbands. Now here's the thing we have enough money to book a hoilday say one or two weeks per year but no more ( money that is )
we would like to use this time to do some good somewhere - we are not beach bums - we would like to help people with our skills but don't want to get into raising charity money or sending loads of stuff to places and we don't particularly want to work for a large faceless charity - so what can we do? - is there and organisation that could help us place our skills somewhere - I imagine us going to teach kids somewhere or young mums but we would consider most things - dig a well of plant crops or - I don't know we just want to help X so please help us get going

[sitges]

Contact Habitat for Humanity. They can always use help building houses. There is always some type of work most people can due. Carry lumber, paint, help with planting yards, the list is endless. These people are now all over the world so you would probably have unlimited number of areas you could go to. Most of their work is in 3rd world countries however, so you may be in some poor areas of these countries. You can contact them at habitatfor humanity.com It is always something you could try once and then if you like it you can get on their help list and can be notified when and where they need people.

[sitges]

Sorry, I gave you the wrong site. It should be :
habitat.org Then click on habitat International and that takes you to a site that should give you all of the information you are looking for.

[lyndylou]

thanks stiges I'll check it out