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At a glance
Accommodation Inc.
Airport Pick-
Food Self-
Honduras at a glance :
£25 per week
Your experience
Located on the Bay Islands off the north coast of Honduras, volunteers
help in a variety of ways at this iguana conservation centre and could choose between: showing visitors around the centre, environmental education with small groups of local children, animal care, gardening, station maintenance and monitoring the iguana population.
Everyone is welcome here, you do not need experience just a willingness
to have a go and help protect the iguana’s natural habitat.
18yrs+ on arrival
Rural, island location
Volunteer accommodation
Self catering /eat cheaply in town
6-
All year round
4 weeks (longer stays possible and warmly appreciated)
Only 2 spaces left 10th June -
November onwards
£25 per week
Allow £25 per week extra to cover food.
Volunteers usually fly to Utila (or take the ferry from the mainland) with stopovers in San Pedro Sula and La Ceiba.
Please contact Original Volunteers to check availability before buying flights as space on this project is limited
What’s included in this programme
Comfortable volunteer accommodation
Materials and resources
Support and orientation 24/7 on site
We consider this project ideal if you
Want to experience living and working on a tropical island location
Want to gain an insight into conservation within a safe, supportive, friendly environment
Want to work alongside other committed volunteers
Enjoy the outdoors
Placement overview
This placement is sure to tick all your boxes: worthwhile environmental voluntary work, guaranteed sun, island location, azure sea and white sand beaches in a little visited corner of the
Caribbean.
Honduras Conservation on a tiny unspoilt Caribbean island
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“Everyone is friendly
and accommodating
and the coordinators
are fantastic. I never
felt any uneasiness
whilst at either of the two orphanages I spent time at or whilst
visiting local attractions. I would definitely
consider returning for
a second visit."
Hannah Law volunteered in Ghana April 2007.
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4 weeks
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Honduras 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-
Climate: Year round average : 25 degrees Celcius, wet season and highest temperatures
May-
Currency: Lempira
Getting there: flight to San Pedro Sula in Honduras (via Miami) followed by connecting internal flight to Utila (placement location).