Meaningful Volunteer - RYE School

  Philippines

Durations of Program: 2-4 weeks, 5-8 weeks, 9-12 weeks, 3-6 months and 7-12 months
Typical Duration of Program: 5-8 weeks

Description: Come help us build our dream: An solar-powered, garbage-funded school to provide world class education to a community in need.

What is a RYE School? We have designed our RYE (Recycle Your Education) Schools to be radical education environments. They are funded - in part - by volunteers such as yourself, and partly by the students who pay their school fees in garbage.

By volunteering with us you will:
* Have a meaningful impact on a developing community.
* Have a meaningful and life-changing experience
* Help to teach Filipino children English skills in a world class environment
* Help to teach Filipino children about the Internet and open up a whole new world for them
* Provide you with training before you go
* Help to teach Filipino children computer skills in our Internet enabled computer labs.
* Live with a Filipino family
* Know exactly where your money is going.

Highlights:
* You'll be volunteering with a 100% non-profit company
* You'll be a volunteer doing meaningful work and not a just a volunteer tourist.
* Live on an idyllic tropical island

Qualifications: Be over the age of 18

Minimum Education: High School

Cost in US$: 852

Experience Required: no

Typical Volunteer: A typical volunteer with Meaningful Volunteer is a North American student. All demographics are welcomed.

Age Range: 18+

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants. This Program is also open to Families, Couples and Individuals

Participants Travel to Philippines Independently

Typically Participants Work in Groups of 2-3

Application Process Involves:

• Online Application plus Application Assessment

Post-Program Services Include:

• Alumni Network

Meaningful Volunteer's Mission Statement: Meaningfulness: Every project that Meaningful Volunteer undertakes must be meaningful. Accurate records must be kept to ensure that a project continues to be meaningful. Financial: Meaningful Volunteer is first and foremost an organization that enables volunteers to have a meaningful impact on developing communities. It is not a charity and will not be run as such. MeaningfulVolunteer will be run like a for-profit business. However, any profits that Meaningful Volunteer does make will be reinvested back into the communities it is trying to help in the forms of educational supplies, medical supplies and so on. Meaningful Volunteer finances will be 100% transparent. All financial statements and a breakdown of volunteer fees will be available on-line. Local Investment: Meaningful Volunteer believes that people in developing countries are an untapped goldmine of talent! As a result, Meaningful Volunteer will only employ local staff and pay them 200% of market rate. Local folk must also invest in some way to the projects they are participants in. Nothing in Meaningful Volunteer is free! An investment in a project means a project is much more likely to succeed. Sustainable Solutions: Any income generating projects that Meaningful Volunteer engages in must be self-sustaining. Meaningful Volunteer may provide some start-up capital, but the project must self-sustain without financial input from additional financial input. All projects must submit budgets and a business plan as a minimum. Corruption: Corruption is a large problem in developing communities. Meaningful Volunteer has a policy of: * No corruption means no corruption no corruption. * We will not deal with any corrupt organization and any staff member found to be accepting bribes will be summarily dismissed

Year Founded: 2008