How to choose your humanitarian trip?

By searching for information on the Internet to make a humanitarian trip, you have surely seen lots of organization sites touting their own organization trying to convince you to go with them. However, Did you really have the sensation of finding objective information?

Not really!

Assuredly, there are very few "objective" websites so as to help us find the humanitarian trip that suits us best.

Because of my little adventure concerning the humanitarian trip , I therefore decided to list the consistent elements to consider in order to choose your humanitarian trip.

Choosing your humanitarian trip: setting a budget

First of all, know that a humanitarian travel can be expensive by contribution to the body through which we start. But in addition you can find some inexpensive humanitarian travel or even free.

Indeed, you can find a large number of humanitarian trips that can cost you more than € 3 for 000 weeks as well as others that may be worth 500 € for 1 month.

It is therefore essential initially to set a budget range.

We will see in more detail how much humanitarian travel costs below in the article.

Choosing your humanitarian trip: targeting an area of ​​intervention

It is then important to identify the sector of intervention of the project in which you wish to participate. Indeed, there is many areas different in humanitarian work.

This is important to choose because it will help you target the organism you will be starting with.

In the areas of intervention we mainly find the field of education, health, construction, ecology and environment and others.

This choice is made according to your preferences. Rather, turn to the area that is most important to you.

Choosing your humanitarian trip: choosing the organization with which to go

Le choice of organization or association thanks to which making a humanitarian stay turns out to be important.

I urge you to take your time to make the right choice.

With this in mind, I advise you to learn about the various organizations offering the possibility of making a humanitarian trip within the field of intervention that you have selected.

This choice of the organization will be made according to your convictions, the seriousness and the interest which you carry to the association.

Choose an organization with which you share values. Find the organization you trust. Examine the seriousness of the organization. Find out as much as you can about it.

Do not hesitate to call people who have left with the same organization so as to have feedback on the organization.

Choose your humanitarian trip: choose a country

Le choice of country remains important because you do not want to make a humanitarian trip to a country you do not want to go.

Find out about the country, on health, safety and tourism in the state to be able to benefit as much as possible from this adventure.

The choice of the country is in my opinion less important than the selection of the project in which you will participate, however it is still very important.

Choosing your humanitarian trip: choosing the humanitarian project

La project selection in which you will participate is an essential. This project should motivate you, so carefully select this humanitarian project.

Whether or not you are delighted with your humanitarian trip will depend on this project.

Pick a project that agrees with you.

We invite you to contact former volunteers who left on this mission during their humanitarian journey.

Find out about the living conditions on site, the pace of the project, the missions etc.

However, I believe that it is still interesting to keep the element of surprise and not to expect too much before leaving to keep a little surprise and confidentiality until your arrival. In addition, it will save you from being disappointed if everything does not go as it did for the previous volunteer who told you about his experience.

How much does a humanitarian trip cost?

As I developed previously, the cost of a humanitarian trip may change significantly depending on the organization you choose to go through.

Indeed, some private organizations, such as companies, charge exorbitant prices that can approach € 4 for only 000 weeks of humanitarian travel. The price varies according to the country and the missions in particular.

Other organizations allow you to leave for much less than € 1 for 000 weeks to a month.

Please note that with some organizations you can deduct part of the amount of taxes. Indeed, if eligible, it is possible to deduct 66% of the sum of taxes. It is therefore a question of a valuable advantage.

In order to know a little more I advise you to consult my article on the organizations with which to make a humanitarian trip.