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Volunteer Visions <VolunteerVisions>


Looking to take a Gap Year? Want to take a vacation and at the same time make a real difference in the world? Then there are the adventure travelers, cultural explorers... The list can go on, but the basic reason remains. If you want to volunteer abroad and don't know where to start, visit:
www.volunteervisions.org

We offer projects in:
* Costa Rica
* Bolivia
* Ecuador
* Vietnam
* Ghana
* Kenya
* India
* China
* Peru

Gender  
Male
Hometown
Playa Samara, Guanacaste, Costa Rica
Volunteer Visions's URL
http://www.bebo.com/VolunteerVisions
Member Since
May 2007

Music
The Beatles, Reggaeton, Jack Johnson, Jazz (Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker), Salsa, Juanes, Ryan Adams, Johnny Cash, Classical (Dvorak, Yo Yo Ma, Mozart)... Pretty Much anything and everything.
Films
Good Will Hunting, Gwoemul, Sin City, Blow, Requiem for a Dream, Memento, Leon, Cidade de Deus, V for Vendetta, Brick, Bourne, Zombie movies, Gladiator, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Goodbye Lenin, Lola rennt, Se7en
What Comes with the Package?
* Food (Eat locally, whether thats casados in Costa Rica or rice noodles in China) * Home stay or dorm accommodation * Pre-departure Information (which includes visa info, vaccinations, packing list, etc.) * Arrival pick up * Skilled and knowledgeable onsite coordinator * 24/7 emergency assistance and onsite support * Safety and Health tips * On-site orientation * Social and cultural activities and excursions
Fears
Being stuck in one place forever
Happiest When
Traveling, meeting new people, walking on the beach, surfing, running, flying kites
Why You Should Take Part in a Program?
We care about you and your experience. In addition to making trips financially reasonable, extensive amounts of time and research have gone into assuring the quality and safety of our destinations, housing, and projects.
Contact
Feel free to find us on any of our social networking profiles. Join the Facebook group Volunteer Visions or me personally (the intern updating the site) at and get connected with other prospective volunteers, make travel plans, share experiences and find new friends. Just give a search for Volunteer Visions on any of the other major social networking sites and the odds are good that you will find us. Check us out at www.volunteervisions.org

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Turtle Watch In Costa Rica!
My Friday night began with a call Wednesday night. Roy, who runs the Sea Turtle Project in Buenavista, Costa Rica, had a single volunteer in the Sea Turtle project and it was the middle of nesting season. Erin, the volunteer coordinator in Costa Rica, had convinced the whole Volunteer Visions Costa Rican office to help dig up hundreds of turtle eggs laid by Hawksbills, Olive-Ridleys, Leatherbacks, and Green Sea Turtles. We were joined by four volunteers (Brianna, Katie, Laura, Amanda) who were working in teaching and construction projects and wanted to help as well.
We caught a ten minute ride in the back of a truck down a long, muddy and bumpy road to the river crossing. Even though it was only an hour after low-tide the river was about 100 yards wide and upon first inspection a bit intimidating. Although it ended up being only waist high, carrying anything other than a backpack over your head would be difficult and risk soaking your possessions. On the other side of the river the first thing you see is a mile long expanse of beach, ocean and waves. There are no houses and signs of civilization. We walked a half mile down the beach in the growing darkness to a tiny compound composed of a main building, dorm on top and kitchen below, a bathroom and shower and a small informational hut that is little more than a roof and table. Two fenced in squares about 100 feet by 100 ft housed thousands of developing sea turtles.
The turtle project is run by Roy, a middle-aged Costa Rican who is almost completely responsible its creation, upkeep and funding. Roy gave us dozens of very exact and detailed directions as we walked the grounds between the kitchen and the nesting site. We were to divide into groups of two and take two hour shifts and check the eggs for hatchlings every ten minutes. In the event that we found any, a large green bucket would be half filled with sand and the baby turtles would be placed inside it. When they finished hatching, the bucket was to be carried to the beach 15 feet from the water and the babies watched till the made it to the water.
When not working throughout the night, we played card games like spoons, BS, Gin Rummy and interactive games like Mafia (http://www.princeton.edu/~mafia/oldm.... Teaching everyone the rules of such games for the first time is hard enough, but when you add the fact that we were playing with local Ticos who help with the project and don’t speak any English, it made for both a surreal and incredibly enjoyable experience.
Three nests hatched that night, one at around 9:30 and the other two between one and four (I was sound asleep by that point) and four other turtles laid their eggs. I woke up the next morning to a typical Tico breakfast of eggs, fruit, rice, beans and coffee, only slightly bitten by bugs (others were not so lucky, a mosquito net is a necessity).
The Buenavista turtle project is the perfect place for people who don’t mind feeling separated from civilization for 5 days at a time, are interested in wildlife conservation and don’t mind wearing a ton of bugspray and having rotating sleep schedules. For more information on how you can participate visit our website at www.volunteervisions.org or email me personally at socialnet@volunteervisions.org
-Travis Taylor
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Earn Cash Or A 4 Week Volunteer Vacation!
All you need to do is get other people involved in our projects! We will supply you with strategies, posters and all the required information!

If you are interested even a little bit about this, send me an email: socialnet@volunteervisions.org

Yes this is legitimate and not a scam, we can become Facebook friends, you can talk on the phone with someone from our office, be put into contact with pass volunteers, see photos, read testimonials.

www.volunteervisions.org
0 Comments 300 days ago
New Footbal Uniforms in Samara
Today we handed out the football uniforms to the women's team of Samara Primary School in our headquarters of Samara, Costa Rica.

The primary school of Samara participates in the national primary school tournament and last year wasnumber one in the Guanacaste province, beating out 450 other primary schools! Unfortunately, till today they had to play in their own clothes because there was no money for football uniforms.

That is the reason why Volunteer Visions started a sponsor program, to be sure that the team not only makes good plays, but also looks good .


Sunday is the start of the first round of the finals. If you want to find out more about volunteering give me an email at socialnet@volunteervisions.org.

www.volunteervisions.org
0 Comments 301 days ago
 

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O.T.Sean
I'm good thanks. Sorry but I have just settled into my new job in the oil industry and I really enjoing it. I also have a long term relationship and many friends that I would hate to leave behind.

Does sound like good fun though and maybe will look to it in the future, who knows!!!

Thanks
Sean
47 weeks ago
 
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