THE VOLUNTEER PROJECT IN ASIA - IN THE PHILIPPINES
As a volunteer you can take part in the activities of a Catholic mission that aims to support the community and create a link between the street, families and existing local structures (hospitals, schools, town halls…) by taking part in the following areas of intervention:
LOCATION
After a couple of days in the capital, you will transfer by bus to San Carlos City, a quiet town in the Pangasinan region five hours away from Manila.
Your accommodation is located in the suburb of Libas, surrounded by a majestic landscape of unspoilt nature.
ARRIVAL AND TRAINING
You will arrive at MANILA International Airport.
The partner will pick you up and take you to the volunteer house, located in the Marikina residential neighbourhood in Manila. The house hosts the volunteers for the first few days of your stay, providing some rest after the long journey.
BOARD AND LODGING
The male volunteers stay in a bamboo hut surrounded by banana trees, maize fields, a vegetable garden, all kinds of animals and insects. The girls stay with a local family. Meals are taken in the missionaries’ house The food is very varied from chicken cooked with coconut and dipped in soup, to vegetables to Bitter with beef, all of course seasoned with Rice.
In turn, volunteers are involved in preparing the meals.
A TYPICAL DAY
The following is an outline of a typical day for a volunteer
- 8.30 a.m. breakfast (with the possibility of participating in prayers with the missionaries)
- 9. 30 – 12 noon activities: visits, vegetable garden, farm, helping families, sports
- 12 – 14 lunch break and rest
- 14. 30 – 17.00 activities: visits, vegetable garden, farm, family help, sport
- 17. 00 – 18.30 leisure time
- 19. 00 Dinner
- 20-21.30 games with children and young people in the centre
REQUIREMENTS TO PARTICIPATE
Be at least 18 years old and have a good knowledge of English.
MINIMUM LENGTH OF STAY
The minimum stay is 3 weeks. Volunteers can leave throughout the year and freely decide whether to stay at the project for a longer period. The advice of the YearOut staff is to stay at the project for a period of 4 weeks in order to make the volunteers’ intervention useful for both the community and themselves.
DONATION
The donation varies depending on the number of weeks you stay and the project you choose.
Your donation includes: food, accommodation, transport costs to/from the airport, transport costs for the project during the volunteering period, 24-hour staff support, financing of materials needed for the activities.
For more details about the donation please see the page DONATION.
FREE TIME
You will find one of the warmest and most welcoming populations in the world and many natural spectacles such as volcanoes, coral reefs, rocky mountains and heavenly beaches to welcome you.
VOLUNTEER QUOTES
“Today I am celebrating my second month since arriving in the Philippines, a country that smells of humanity, but unfortunately also of tremendous inequality, and which, in its chaotic nature, exudes a hint of profound loneliness. Living as a missionary is certainly stimulating, sometimes nerve-wracking, because you would like to solve all the problems you encounter, and certainly tiring, but in the end, when you stop to think, things are perhaps much simpler than that, and often a glance is enough to explain them. ”
Luca
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