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Filed Under: 4. Design projects based on local needs and input as well as volunteer sustainability
Are volunteers’ skills appropriately matched to the projects’ needs and activities?
Are there valuable tasks accessible for non-technical or “unskilled” volunteers, especially if the trip is being solicited to unskilled volunteers?
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Guide Outline
I. Partner Organizations and Host Communities
1. Responsibly identify partner organization
2. Build relationships based on collaborative project management and assessment with the partner organization
3. Ensure beneficial relationship for partner organization and host community
II. Volunteer Projects
4. Design projects based on local needs and input as well as volunteer sustainability
5. Provide on-site project management to ensure a safe, educational, and successful volunteering environment
6. Consider the impact of giving ‘things’
7. Prioritize child safety
III. Participants
8. Provide information and clear expectations for participants
IV. Marketing
9. Be honest marketers
V. Resposible Tourism
10. Exemplify, educate about, and promote responsible tourism
VI. Responsible Development
11. Exemplify, educate about, and promote development best practices