Honduras

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.

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 include: 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. Spaces are limited on this ever popular project so early booking is essential to reserve your bed in paradise!

Placement at a Glance

Age

18yrs+ on arrival

Project location

Island location

Accommodation

Volunteer accommodation. Meals: Self catering /eat cheaply in town

Working hours

Full time, usually 5 or 6 days a week

Language

English spoken by on site staff and volunteers

Getting to project

Usual route is flight to San Pedro followed by bus to La Ceiba and ferry to island.

Minimum stay

4 weeks

Project operates

All year round

When to apply

As soon as possible. This project is usually full 6 months in advance. Call us to check for availability if travelling sooner

Costs

£47 per week Allow £25 per week extra to cover food. Volunteers have use of communal kitchen or can eat in town.

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).