Basecamp International Centers believe international volunteering promotes cross-cultural learning that helps create global awareness, understanding between cultures and provides the platform for positive change. Our volunteers have taught in schools, provided disaster relief support for the International Red Cross, conducted essential research to improve the management strategies of threatened environments, built homes for impoverished people, provided vocational training and programs for street kids and have worked in co-operation with hundreds of local organizations to distribute aid and improve the quality of life for people throughout Asia, Africa and Latin AmericaWe have volunteer placement on Social, Heath and Medical, Environment, Children and Building Projects in Nepal, Peru, Ghana, Nicaragua, Tanzania, Costa Rica and Ecuador.Basecamp International Centers welcomes all the interested volunteers from around the world to volunteer and make a difference.
ASVO is a non-profit NGO which places volunteers in Costa Rica's national parks and protected areas. ASVO's objective is to improve the conditions and amount of volunteer work performed at a national and international level. Volunteers must be of age 18 or above with minimum education of high school.
Volunteers with the following special skills are preferred for the placement:-
Forestry Environmental Science Biology Data Collection Statistics Rock Climbing Hiking Volunteers can assist by doing following tasks:
1. Working in important sites within the park which present a high risk of erosion, creating barriers to help limit the amount of erosion.
2. Working in the parts of the park with areas that are unsafe for tourists, building barriers to improve access to the different areas of the park.
3. General repairs to the park's trails.
4. Environmental education for local communities Communal work: help with social activities, infrastructure and others.
Volunteers are needed to help protect the many different types of habitats found within the park - the park is home to four different types of forest as well as many different species of plants and animals.
The tasks would require the maintainence of the facilities, trials,tending to public and patrolling with the park rangers, protectig the species and the forests, environmental edcation and promoting ecotourism,maintaining buildings and the administrative tasks.
Basecamp International welcomes all the interested volunteers from around the world to volunteer and make a difference. If you are interested in this placement then please contact us for the details:
Email: info@basecampcenters.com
Website: www.basecampcenters.com
Mailing Address 298 Bagot Street, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7K 3B4 Phone: 613.541.7862
Toll Free : 866.646.4693
Fax: 613.541.1604
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