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GAP Adventures website: GAP Adventures
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Responsibletravel website: Responsibletravel
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Aruba Specialized Vacations
based: Aruba
website: www.aruba.com/SpecializedVacations/Weddings_and_Honeymoons.aspx
Specialized vacations in Aruba, a magical island with a rich multi-cultural heritage, European charm and Latin flavour. Its alabaster beaches, turquoise Caribbean waters and sun-kissed days are world-renowned. Aruba is the perfect place for weddings and honeymoons, family breaks and volunteer vacations and a range of water and land activities and island tours.
| working/volunteer holidays | weddings/honeymoons | romantic | family/child friendly | festivals/carnivals | diving/snorkelling | waterskiing | windsurfing | Aruba |

Bison Quest on Wild Echo Bison Reserve
based: Montana, USA
website: www.bisonquest.com
Experience a very private vacation in a log cabin and Sioux tipis surrounded by a bison herd in the Montana wilderness. Ride horses, learn Native American history, use a sweatlodge, join eco projects and participate in bison and wildlife studies as the only guests of internationally known biologists.
| ethical/ecotourism | bird watching | family/child friendly | working/volunteer holidays | ecological tours | native peoples | groups | tailor made | women only | animals/safari | riding | USA |

G.A.P Adventures Featured Site
based: Canada, London & Worldwide
website: GAP Adventures
Global volunteer holidays and vacations with something for everyone, from teaching in local schools, to community projects, to volunteering in orphanages, to animal conservation projects. Enjoy adventure and travel as well as spending time on worthwhile projects in destinations as diverse as Vietnam and Costa Rica, Peru and Zambia.
| ethical/ecotourism | animals/safari | expeditions | walking/trekking/hiking | mountain biking | canoeing/kayaking | camping safaris | ecological tours | overlanding | multi-activity | working/volunteer holidays | Worldwide |

Global Vision International
based: Hertfordshire, UK
website: www.gvi.co.uk
GVI expeditions offer the adventurous individual the chance to work as part of a structured team on pioneering international projects. With projects all over the world you can join expeditions as diverse as Rainforest Expeditions in the Amazon, Wildlife Research Expeditions in Africa and Marine Research Expeditions in Mexico.
| gap year | expeditions | survival courses | marine safaris | ecological tours | ethical/ecotourism | working/volunteer holidays | Africa | Asia | South America | Mexico | South Africa |

Hope and Home – Nepal Volunteer Organization
based: Kathmandu, Nepal
website: www.hopenhome.org
Hope and Home is a Nepal volunteer organization that has been formed to address the health and educational needs of the Nepalese people. The organization's activities include fundraising, upgrading medical and educational capabilities and creating opportunities for volunteerism.
| working/volunteer holidays | Nepal |

INFO Nepal – Global Volunteers for Nepal
based: Kathmandu, Bagmati, Nepal
website: www.infonepal.org
Customised programs that make an important contribution to the people of Nepal, while providing an in-depth experience of the Nepali language and culture. INFO provides training and then places volunteers in communities and schools across Nepal where they may be involved with teaching English, environmental awareness, income generating programmes, health care education or assisting in orphanages, children's homes etc.
| working/volunteer holidays | gap year | Nepal |

International Academy Ski Instructor Courses
based: Cardiff, Wales, UK
website: www.international-academy.com
International Academy was one of the first companies based in the UK to offer ski and snowboard instructor training courses, and the first in the Canadian Rockies. Quality ski instructor training programmes in Canada, USA or New Zealand.
| skiing (off-piste) | skiing (piste) | snowboarding | working/volunteer holidays | gap year | extreme snow sports | Australasia | North America |

International Volunteer HQ
based: Taranaki, New Zealand
website: www.volunteerhq.org
International Volunteer HQ (IVHQ) provides safe, quality and extremely affordable volunteering placements in developing countries all over the world. At present they have a wide range of volunteering opportunities in Tanzania, Kenya, Kenya-Maasai, Nepal, Vietnam, Peru, Ecuador and Thailand.
| working/volunteer holidays | gap year | ethical/ecotourism | native peoples | groups | South America | Asia | Africa |

John Muir Trust
based: Hampshire, UK
website: www.jmt.org
The 'Activities Programme' offers adventurous activities and exploration in beautiful wild areas, canoeing and sea kayaking trips, conservation work, story telling, music, wilderness skills, medicinal plants. Also see their 'Conservation Work Parties' where you can volunteer to help carry out conservation work. The John Muir Trust is a registered Scottish charity with the aim of protecting and conserving wild places and increasing awareness and understanding of such places.
| charity expeditions/holidays | working/volunteer holidays | gap year | ethical/eco tourism | survival courses | canoeing/kayaking | sea canoeing/sea kayaking | herbalism | storytelling | UK |

Jubilee Sailing Trust
based: Hampshire, UK
website: www.jst.org.uk
Adventure sailing holidays for able-bodied and disabled people. The JST is a UK based charity that aims to promote the integration of able bodied and disabled people through adventure sailing holidays. The JST welcomes people from all over the world onto its two specially designed tall ships, the Lord Nelson and Tenacious.
| for people with a disability | sailing (large boat/sail ship) | charity expeditions/holidays | working/volunteer holidays | UK | Ireland | USA | Europe | Canaries | Worldwide |

Kalikalos Holidays
based: Magnesia, Greece
website: www.kalikalos.com
Kalikalos Summer School offers a full summer programme of holistic community-based workshops, retreats and workcamps. Offerings include tai chi, yoga, monviolent communication, meditation, advaita, mediation and eco-village trainings. The centre is unique in that it is run as a community.
| holistic holidays | tai chi | yoga | self development | meditation | painting/drawing | ethical/ecotourism | vegetarian | family/child friendly | summer schools | working/volunteer holidays | Greece |

Madhyamaka Buddhist Centre
based: East Yorkshire, UK
website: www.workingholidaysintheuk.org.uk
Working holidays at Madhyamaka Buddhist Centre. Accommodation and meals provided in exchange for 35hrs work. Guests are welcome to enjoy any of the facilities which include 42 acres of parkland, a cafe, a gift shop and regular public meditation courses. Varied work with no skills required.
| working/volunteer holidays | gardening | meditation | retreats | England |

National Trust (The)
based: London, UK
website: www.nationaltrust.org.uk
Working holidays in National Trust locations in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. These include historic buildings as well as countryside, coastal, woodland and farm locations. Many different types of holiday aimed at a wide variety of interests and age groups.
| working/volunteer holidays | archaeological digs | country crafts | botanical | youth/teen | weekends/short breaks | UK |

Nest Trust (The) – Nicaragua English and Sustainable Tourism
based: Nicaragua and Birmingham. UK
website: www.thenesttrust.org.uk
Voluntary project offering unique opportunities to live and work with rural communities in the coffee growing mountains of Nicaragua. Teach English to young guides and make a valuable contribution to the region's rural tourism programmes, which are vital for environmental conservation and the livelihoods of the small producers.
| working/volunteer holidays | ethical and ecotourism | Nicaragua |

Pattaya Orphanage Trust
based: London, UK
website: www.pattayaorphanage.co.uk
The Pattaya Orphanage in Pattaya, Thailand, provides a loving home, residential care and education for 180 orphans, up to 100 street children, 220 deaf or blind children and 200 disabled young people. Opportunities for gap year/working holidays teaching English and jungle trekking charity expeditions.

| charity expeditions/holidays | gap year | working/volunteer holidays | Thailand |

Raleigh
based: London, UK
website: raleighinternational.org
Raleigh is a charity with over 24 years experience of providing adventurous and challenging expeditions that develop skills and confidence in young people. Explore Borneo, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and India for 4 to 10 weeks where you can volunteer on sustainable community and environmental projects, plus enjoy an adventure challenge.
| gap year | expeditions | charity expeditions/holidays | multi-activity | expedition training | groups | working/volunteer holidays | walking/trekking/hiking | youth/teen | tailor made | team building/management courses | Worldwide |

Responsibletravel.com Featured Site
based: East Sussex, UK
website: Responsibletravel
Very wide selection of ethical volunteer travel and holidays to destinations worldwide. Select from community projects; animal, wildlife and marine conservation; teaching projects; TEFL courses; archaeology projects; business mentoring; charity treks; sports coaching, family volunteering; homestays; volunteering with children; healthcare volunteer projects ...
| working/volunteer holidays | charity expeditions/holidays | ethical/ecotourism | Europe | Africa | Asia | UK | South America |

Saint Basil Olive Grove
based: Crete, Greece
website: www.saintbasilolivegrove.com/olive_picking_holidays.html
Unique olive picking holiday on the Greek island of Crete. Join the harvest, learn to collect and bag olives and prune the trees. See your olives pressed into extra virgin olive oil and take some home. Stay among the trees in the Olive Grove's private villas. Activity options include walking, holistic therapies and clay-shooting.
| olive picking/harvest | working/volunteer holidays | gastronomic | Crete | Greece |

VentureCo Worldwide Limited
based: Warwickshire, UK
website: www.ventureco-worldwide.com
VentureCo's multi-phase travel programmes incorporate development projects, expeditions and adventure travel in Asia, Africa, South America and Central America. If you're taking a gap year, considering a career break, running a school expedition, organising a charity trek or just fancy a working holiday with a difference VentureCo can help you.
| working/volunteer holidays | gap year | school tours | charity expeditions/holidays | overlanding | backpacking | walking/trekking/hiking | walking/trekking safaris | white water rafting | South America | Africa | Asia |

Volunteer Latin America
based: London, UK
website: www.volunteerlatinamerica.com
Providing free and low-cost volunteer work in Central and South America for independent volunteers; offering a wide variety of projects including opportunities to volunteer and learn Spanish abroad.
| working/volunteer holidays | gap year | Spanish language | South America |

Voluntourists Without Borders
based: Chiang Mai Provence, Thailand
website: www.voluntourists-without-borders.com
An initiative aimed at using volunteer tourist (voluntourist) labour and donor funding to alleviate rural poverty, protect forests, and promote sustainable eco-tourism. The initiative puts volunteer labour, and the funding they secure, to work alongside ethnic minority and rural Thai village groups under a programme to establish a world class eco-tourism industry.
| working/volunteer holidays | groups | gap year | ethical/ecotourism | native peoples | school tours | seniors/silver surfers | singles holidays | team building/management courses | Thailand |

Blue Ventures Conservation
based: London, UK
website: www.blueventures.org
Dynamic marine volunteering positions available in Madagascar, researching threatened coral reefs ecosystems.
| working/volunteer holidays | charity expeditions/holidays | gap year | diving/snorkelling | Madagascar |

Creative Corners – The Global Arts Project
based: London, UK
website: www.creative-corners.com
Not for profit volunteer organisation offering 'Grandparent Getaways' – volunteering for seniors.
| working/volunteer holidays | seniors/silver surfers | South America |

Holiday Volunteers
based: London, UK
website: www.holidayvolunteers.com
Volunteer activity placements in Thailand; help to save the Asian elephant from extinction.
| working/volunteer holidays | Thailand |

Languages Abroad
based: Toronto, Canada
website: www.languagesabroad.com
30 different languages in over 50 countries, study abroad in a language school of your choice.
| multi language | children's courses/holidays | youth/teen | working/volunteer holidays | Worldwide |

Volunteering in Peru
based: Cusco, Peru
website: www.volunteeringinperu.org
Volunteer work in Peru; includes work in hospitals, prisons and agriculture and with children, the elderly and the mentally handicapped.
| working/volunteer holidays | Peru |

Worldwide Language Study LLC
based: London, UK
website: www.worldwidelanguagestudy.com
Language programs, volunteer programs and cultural tours in Thailand, China, Argentina and Vietnam.
| Spanish language | Vietnamese language | Chinese languages | working/volunteer holidays | Asia | South America |