{"id":7451,"date":"2025-04-01T03:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/?p=7451"},"modified":"2025-03-28T07:48:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T14:48:47","slug":"volunteering-abroad-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2025\/04\/volunteering-abroad-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Updating my resource on volunteering abroad: your help needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/travel_do_good.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"210\" height=\"206\" src=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/travel_do_good.jpg\" alt=\"Images, in the style of petroglyphs, of people doing various activities, like writing or construction.\" class=\"wp-image-5012\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>For many years, I&#8217;ve maintained <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coyotebroad.com\/volunteer\/international.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a resource to help people understand the various types of volunteering abroad programs and to evaluate a program they might be interested in<\/a>. I&#8217;ve also included two lists on that page:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>one is a list of volunteering abroad programs where participants do NOT have to pay (these are all long-term volunteering gigs, like the Peace Corps, UNV, etc.), and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the other is a list of where participants DO pay but the programs also meet the criteria for an ethical volunTOURism company (they don&#8217;t take absolutely anyone so long as they can pay, they vet participants, the activities are designed by local people, no &#8220;white saviorism&#8221; type activities, no working with orphans or wildlife, etc.).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coyotebroad.com\/volunteer\/international.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>That resource is here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I&#8217;m sorry to say that COVID seems to have taken away a lot of programs, particularly on that second list. I just updated the page, removing those now defunct programs. But I&#8217;d like to add to the page, if there are additions out there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you know of a volunteering abroad program that you think meets the requirements to be listed on my page, either DM me or <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSdiZvpI3kzxd3Ipb1nypxOtUM2s_TLMnFNgytOaELxu0qS8_g\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">use this form to contact me<\/a>. Please FIRST view my page and see if I already have it listed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do NOT use the comments to recommend a company &#8211; I&#8217;ll delete it as soon as I see it. I will accept ONLY DMs or recommendations on the contact form. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many years, I&#8217;ve maintained a resource to help people understand the various types of volunteering abroad programs and to evaluate a program they might be interested in. I&#8217;ve also included two lists on that page: That resource is here. But I&#8217;m sorry to say that COVID seems to have taken away a lot of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,1560],"tags":[216,496,530,532,533,2308],"class_list":["post-7451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-volunteer-engagement","category-humanitarian-action","tag-global","tag-travel","tag-volunteering","tag-volunteers","tag-voluntourism","tag-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fFJB-1Wb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7451"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7473,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7451\/revisions\/7473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}