8 New Volunteer Vacations Worthy of the Name
Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, August, 2003 by Theresa Russell
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Your heart is big but your wallet isn't. Can you nevertheless, by exchanging your labors for room and board, live for free (or, at worst, for a nominal sum) as you devote your vacation time to a socially beneficial cause?
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In the March/April 2002 issue of Budget Travel, we discussed the unsettling fact that a great many so-called volunteer vacations actually cost more than commercial tour programs involving no work at all. And in that disturbing context, we nevertheless ferreted out some ten programs or organizations operating volunteer vacations that were "worthy of the name"-that is, dirt-cheap vacations on which you received free or nominally priced room and board and thus spent hardly anything. For this issue we have once again surveyed the field and found eight more volunteer vacations that cost either nothing or a maximum of $150 a week for housing and food. In other words, ...
