NSers Where Should I volunteer?

Why would you even ask this, Peru.

Large cats? as in TIGERS?

Peru walking large cats sounds like a winner to me.

More along the lines of Jaguars, but I ask because is walking cats really rewarding?  I could help the lives of other humans....but then again jaguars are pretty cool cats.....

And they've named cars after them..

^^ (its not letting me quote you)

yeah, I was leaning towards Peru for cats, or Bolivia for teaching kids (it's in a city where I know a girl,she was a foreign exchange last year when I was in high school, so it would be cool to hang out with her again)
just wanted some other opinions

auschwitz

Bolivia would be my second choice.

dude.... that's a tough one

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I actually went to India to teach children and it was probably the coolest thing I've ever done, but I think if I had the choice I would have played with snow leopards instead.

The big kitties!!!

agreed, you dont often get the chance to work with rare/dangerous animals like jags, if you want to help children, volunteer in an inner city area by you and help your local community, even though it is very respectable to donate your time helping people in another country.

it depends on what your goals are honestly. are you going to have a cool experience or have a meaningful time in a place that needs help?
either way, youre going to a different culture which will be awesome. i would go help people though. teach some kids. i mean the whole basis of volunteering is to HELP not party in a different country.

walking jaguars is badass though!

The Bolivia option sounds quite pleasant and rewarding.

bolivia
my little big brother did that in the dominican and it was a great experience

Thanks for all your support guys, (besides the fact I got Karma raped for asking this, idc)

I'm not looking to do it as a vacation, however I can't go to certain places such as Haiti, Africa, or other areas in really bad situations because they are looking for people for long term (as mentioned above, 4 months, or more).  I don't have 4 months between college breaks, I have about a month, so these programs were each 2 weeks.  As for the cultural shock, I am well aware of that, and I am hoping that it won't play a major effect in my work.

As for which I have chosen, still haven't.  Yes, not many people get to walk large cats, and that is pretty sick.  However, if I can teach lots of children how to speak english and play basketball, and also build homes for those in poverty, I think that it will be more rewarding in the long run.  Still a toss up, and I've pretty much ruled out the the other option, as no one on here even mentioned it, so it's really down to large cats and Bolivia.  I'll decide in the next few weeks, then be off in July to wherever.

the jaguars, but you'll probably just end up on food prep and poop duty

Actually, they need people to help with the monkeys and jaguars, and if I helped with monkeys, it would be a lot of poop duty, with some hands on obviously, however the jaguars, I would have to take one for a walk each day in the woods until it became tired.  This on average takes about 3 hours, but can take up to 7-8 hours.  (All the jaguars are injured, that is why they need to be walked)

teach kids. the jaguars would be cool, but helping the kids would be rewarding and a much better experience. 

Go with the cats. Not because it's cool, but because it would be really rewarding, and you'd be helping an endangered species.
I would much rather go with the cats, but you might not love animals as much as I do.

WALKING CATS! are you honestly debating this?!?!!?

Yea, because helping children in poverty can be rewarding, but then again so can cats....i'm leaning more and more towards cats though from NS opinions

yo. you gotta walk those cats. somebody has to do it! kids get helped all the time. think about the cats.

Touche! 

As of now i'm prolly 80 percent towards cats, 20 percent towards Bolivia......

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my friends dad has a house in bolivia for some reason and he did a burnout on a sloth. i hope that visual makes you go for peru!

Fuck walking cats. Human lives are so much more important.

you gotta think though man, those kids would be so stoked to see you every day when you went to help them and teach them shit, think about it, these kids probably dont have a lot in their lives to look forward to, but for two weeks of the kids lives this weird foreign dude would come and chill with the kids. it would be pretty awesome to get away from the shitty daily grind like that, so good and healthy for those kids to see you and be with you.



P.S. if you replace "kids" with "fucking jaguars" every time the word comes up, that post still works.

Cats. I have some friends that did the thing where they rescue sea turtles. They loved it.

This is the thought in the back of my mind.......Jaguars are ballin as can be, and they need people to walk them, but then again, these kids literally have nothing.  When I go there, 6-7 Bolivian dollars gets me a good meal for dinner, and 8 Bolivian dollars equals one american.  Thats how poor there are.  I would also teach them basketball, and me being well over six foot tall would probably be cool to them, at least thats what i have noticed in the past when i worked with younger kids at basketball camps.....

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BUMP BECAUSE IM VOLUNTEERING!

After much research, planning and thinking, I am going to ECUADOR! I'm going over my winter break from college, for about two weeks. It was just recently finalized. I'm going with other students, we are hoping to have 25 students go total, that is our goal. Realistically we will have between 15-20. The students are from my college in upstate NY, a few other colleges in NY and Berkley. We are going for roughly two weeks, and planting trees, restoring a mangrove and working on the garden at a local school. We have cut costs by changing where we will stay. We are sleeping in hammocks on the beach, basically for free. So any money that would have gone to an apartment or hotel will go into more trees. We planning on planting over a 1000 trees a day (the group of us) for like I said about two weeks. Our goal I think right now is 10000 trees, restoring the mangrove (and this mangrove has multiple kinds of life growing in it, it's sort of rare and you bet pictures will come up after I go) and the garden.

Now all I have left is fundraising! Any ideas? I might make a new trip for fundraising ideas unless this one gets some attention. I've already told all my family members to not get me anything for the holidays, rather sponsor something about the trip. My friends and I are also planning a bake sale. Any other ideas?