The Doggy Day Out Program allows volunteers to spoil a pet looking for a forever home with individualized attention, help them work on their social skills, and give them a little peace and quiet. Our volunteers took their Lollypop Farms residents out for long walks, played fetch, and helped ...
When you’re giving your time rather than working for pay, you’re making the choice to donate time and provide help where it’s needed. That kind of attitude is essential at many charities and other nonprofit organizations, where volunteers make it possible to complete work that mig...
In order to do that we extended our travel budget by participating in work exchange programs such asWWOOF(World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms),Workaway, andTrusted House Sitters. These sites made it possible to enjoy traveling and volunteering in Italy for free or cheap. Bountiful grapes in...
She loves wool in all its forms and her parents also raise sheep, so she bridges the divide, but I am always a little amazed at knitters who don’t quite know how sheep work and farmers who don’t quite know how yarn works. One thing my super amazing wife therefore really appreciated...
Choosing the right program for volunteer work overseas is as important as choosing the right country or region. If you have an organization in mind, look at their website carefully. Does it sound like the kind of volunteer program you’d feel comfortable with? Does it share your philosophy ...
January 7, 2024 at 12:54 am What a moving and vivid account of this experience. Thank you for sharing. I will share this with my sister, who is going to Israel with her husband in February as part of a JNF group to work on farms or kibbutzim or wherever they are sent. This wil...