Description:
Workcamps typically bring together a temporary community of 10-20 international volunteers from different backgrounds to provide services to local community projects throughout the world. The volunteers carry out unskilled tasks that would not otherwise be possible without paid labour.
Short term projects last for 2-4 weeks with the main season from June to September and a smaller programme the rest of the year. It is also possible to volunteer for longer periods (3-12 months).
All volunteers must pay a placement fee. This fee is main income of YAP UK. It is needed to pay all our costs for running our programme. (Wages, communications, travel to meetings, conferences, office running costs.)
The fee for a project in the standard programme is £120. This placement fee includes your membership of YAP UK and will pay for your food, accommodation and the social programme for the duration of the workcamp. If there is an additional fee to pay this will be indicated in the project description. These occur when there are special projects as with teenagers or study programmes which cannot be funded locally or nationally.
Volunteers going to countries in the North/South Programme will need to pay a fee of £160. This placement fee includes your membership of YAP UK, a place on a North/South Training Course including food, accommodation and materials. The fee does not include travel costs to/from the North-South Training Event.
Volunteers to the South will also need to pay a Hosting Fee as these organisations do not receive any other or insufficient other income. This fee is for your food, accommodation and other hosting costs, and for the essential annual costs of the hosting organisation. This fee is paid to the hosting organisation on arrival in cash in a hard currency unless otherwise stated. Northern volunteers in the South are also expected to support the travel and some other costs of national volunteers.
