Volunteering in Honduras

Our Volunteer work in Honduras offers it all, worthwhile environmental voluntary work, guaranteed sun, island location, azure sea and white sand beaches in a little visited corner of the Caribbean.

The project where you will be volunteering is located on the Bay Islands just off the Honduran Caribbean coast and offers a variety of volunteer experiences. Voluntary Projects in Honduras could involve showing visitors around the centre, environmental education with small groups of local children, animal care, gardening, station maintenance to trekking in the mangrove swamps monitoring the indigenous iguana population. Voluntary work in Honduras is flexible and the pace of island life is reassuringly slow.

Away from your volunteer work, this small island also offers cafes and bars to relax in and recreational sports such as deep sea fishing, kayaking, snorkelling and diving are popular pastimes and can be easily organised.

Everyone is welcome here and our voluntary work does not require any experience just a willingness to have a go and help protect the iguana's natural habitat. Come and take part in some volunteer work in Honduras away from the hustle and bustle on this tiny tropical island. Spaces are limited on this ever popular project so early booking is essential to reserve your bed in paradise!

What's included in this programme

Comfortable volunteer accommodation. Materials and resources.
Support and orientation 24/7 on site

At A Glance

 

Honduras is a country of contrasts, from the mountain ranges that cover over 80% of the country to the flat coastal areas, the military presence to the friendly, tranquil people.

The Bay Islands where this placement is located are made up of Roatan, Guanaja, Utila and smaller cays which for over 300 years were witness to slave raids and piracy before trade in bananas and other fruit was established.

Today most of the islanders are mostly fishermen and merchant seamen who can spend long periods away from their families and paradise home.

The dominant language of the Bay Islands is still English and many locals tend to see themselves as English or American rather than Honduran.

Roatan the biggest island has a substantial town, airport, fishing villages, a cinema, hotels and excellent beaches popular with tourists.

Utila is a sleepy little island surrounded by beautiful beaches and was the original site of the first banana and fruit plantations in the Bay Islands. The main town is East Harbour and accommodation is limited. This is the location of the conservation centre and where volunteers will be living and working.

Guanaja, covered in pine-covered mountains, waterfalls, beautiful beaches and numerous reefs is the most easterly island and measures only 21 square miles.

Climate: Year round average : 25 degrees Celcius, wet season and highest temperatures May-September. Currency: Lempira. Getting there: flight to San Pedro Sula in Honduras (via Miami) followed by connecting internal flight to Utila (placement location).