Outreach International

Outreach International offers volunteer placements in small, carefully-chosen projects where your skills match local needs.

The placements

On an Outreach International project, you can make a valuable contribution while living with local people. Volunteers are placed where they are genuinely needed and where skills and energies will be fully utilised.

Projects include:

Orphanages and street children (including working with victims of human trafficking)
Teaching English in coastal villages
Teaching sports, art and computer studies
Helping at medical centres
Physiotherapy
Centres for disabled children (including working with young landmine and polio victims)
Conservation and environmental work (including Amazon rainforest and giant sea turtles)
Humanitarian development work

Outreach International meets all potential volunteers to discuss the opportunities in detail. Every project is regularly visited and assessed by the Outreach International director. Volunteer groups are small and a language course is included, so you can really be part of the local community.

Countries

Costa Rica – Caribbean coast and the rainforest
Ecuador – Quito, the cloud forest, Pacific ocean and the Galapagos Islands
Cambodia – Phnom Penh
Sri Lanka – south coast near Galle
Mexico – Pacific coast around the Bay of Banderas

How long?

Placements are normally for three months. However there are one-month programmes and you are welcome to stay for up to six months.

Pricing

£2,700 for three months. £475 for additional months. Price includes:

Generous food allowance
Accommodation – your own private room in an Outreach International house or host family
Visas for up to six months
All local transport
Intensive in-country language course
Unlimited health, public liability, baggage insurance
Full in-country support
Airport pick up
Weekend trip
UK training, briefing and support with fund raising.

About Outreach International

Outreach International was established in 1998 and is a member of The Year Out Group. They are a small, specialist organisation where the director meets all applicants to discuss the proposed project so you can make an informed decision about whether it is right for you. Outreach sends approximately 100 volunteers overseas every year.

The director visits every project at least once a year and has a clear idea about the needs of each one.

Outreach International is a carbon neutral company which plants three oak trees for every volunteer that travels with them.