Jamaica
Youth & Sustainability Volunteer Projects in Jamaica
Volunteers For Peace is excited to announce our 2nd annual environmentally-focused projects in Jamaica for 2012! See below for details, contact us with questions, or fill out the VFP registration form to start the volunteer experience of a lifetime! Click here to pay the registration fee.
Recycling Education and Community Clean-up
VFP JA02-12: October 13 - 27, 2012
Recycling education poster from Oct 2011 project
WORK: Volunteers will teach recycling, organic composting, and being green to third through sixth graders at Esher Primary School, and two high schools in Lucea. We will clean up trash from the Lucea Harbor, and a local neighborhood. We will paint murals and signs focusing on community recycling and being green. If you are creative, outdoorsy, appreciate nature, and love to paint murals or work with kids, then you will be well suited for this project.
ACCOMODATION AND FOOD: To begin the project, volunteers will stay in a simple cabin by the sea for two nights. Then you will share a home with a local Jamaican family of four for the remainder of the project. Volunteers will share responsibility for cooking meals.Open-minded and eager to learn about and interact with a new culture. Flexible to eat local foods and stay/live in simple conditions.
LOCATION & LEISURE ACTIVITY: Lucea is located 30 minutes from popular tourist destinations Montego Bay and Negril. It is about $10 roundtrip to visit either city. Negril boasts seven miles of beach and five miles of cliffs. During free time, volunteers can take a private chartered taxi ride to the Bob Marley Museum in Kingston, waterfalls, Windsor Research Center, Appleton Rum Factory, or the Black River Safari. Side trips start at $50. Also popular is bird watching, hiking, snorkeling, cliff diving, sunbathing, and interacting with locals.
REQUIREMENTS: Volunteers must be 21 or older. Note to Asthmatics, air quality can be a challenge at times, especially around traffic exhaust and burning piles of trash. Fast acting inhalers and asthma meds are crucial to have on hand at all times. Total cost = $580 ($200 Extra fee payable to VFP by 9 May). Volunteers should be open-minded and eager to learn about and interact with a new culture!
"Jamaica was an incredible experience; I was amazed with the people I met there. I was really exited with Jamaican culture, the music, the food the incredible beaches and the mood everybody has during the day. I am grateful with life because I had this experience that helped me to know more about myself and my world." ~ M. Achirick, Volunteer 2011
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