How did you find the pre departure booklet given to you and the service of the staff in regards to answering your questions and helping you prepare?
All very Good. The staff were quick to reply to my queries.

Did you enjoy working at your project / placement?
Really enjoyed working at the school a little more direction in the beginning needed. Overall loved it.

Accommodation and meals
All excellent. I was made very comfortable felt very safe and welcomed. My privacy was always maintained. Meals were also really good.

What was the highlight of your volunteering experience and your trip?
The highlight of my trip was seeing the snow capped mountains of the Himalayas on my trek and during the volunteering I would get cheers and applause in every class I would go to.

Would you recommend this program and our organization to others? yes/no
YES. I definitely would.

How did you find the pre departure booklet given to you and the service of the staff in regards to answering your questions and helping you prepare?
Questions were answered promptly. The booklet had most of the answers I needed and loads of useful info.

Did you enjoy working at your project / placement?
Yes. The staff at the school were extremely welcoming and the students were keen to learn.

Accommodation and meals
Great home stay. The host and the children were wonderful.

What was the highlight of your volunteering experience and your trip?
Friendships made with the children and workers of the home stay and those made with other volunteers.

Would you recommend this program and our organization to others? yes/no
YES. Definitely

Any comments and suggestions
Nice work. Great fun.

I like the look of the website especially with all the pictures. The pre departure booklet was very helpful. The staff answered all the questions very fast and very well.

I thoroughly enjoyed working at my placement. The kids are so nice and lovely. Highlight of my volunteer experience was dancing with the kids with German music. The other highlight of my trip was Taj Mahal and Jaipur and dinner with a poor local Indian family.

The accommodation was very comfortable the bed too. The food was good. The coordinators/staff was very professional and every time available whenever needed. I would surely recommend Volunteering Solutions.

Thank you all for great experience!! < 3
Nicole

The website was very nice to get information about everything. The Pre-Departure booklet was very helpful! I felt safe and very organized. The service of the staff was kind and helpful.

I very much enjoyed working at my placement ! It was truly an amazing experience. I will surely remember this for the rest of my life. To meet the children play with them and getting to know them was certainly the highlight of my trip. It was interesting to live as a Nepalese and not just live at a hotel.

Accommodations and Meals both were very nice and enjoyable. Nothing to change here! I would surely recommend Volunteering Solutions to my friends and family. It is something that everyone needs to do.

I loved the reviews from volunteers and the fan page on Facebook. Sahil was very helpful and kind in his emails to me.

I thoroughly enjoyed it. The kids were so kind and always offering us food and hot tea. Also they were so eager to have us and learn. The highlight was meeting the Indian host family and staff and volunteering. The staff was very kind and always asking how our days were. Great staff full of different and great personalities.

I loved when eggs were served and tomato sandwiches. I loved the food and accommodation. I will definitely recommend this program and your organization to others.

I really like the reviews from volunteers in the past. The pre departure booklet did provide quite a lot of useful information .

I very much enjoyed my placement. The kids were pleasure to work with. We learned a lot about managing the kids and providing them with what they need. The highlight would be working one on one with kids and the weekend trip to Jaipur.

Accommodation was perfect and I enjoyed the meals a lot - very delicious. The staff was friendly and professional. It was truly valuable experience so I would recommend this organization to everyone who wants to volunteers.

The website was very helpful easy to access all information. The pre departure booklet was pretty helpful too.

I enjoyed working at my placement. The highlight was working with the children getting to know the staff and culture of India. I loved the Itinerary prepared by Mr. Rajiv for Jaipur it was perfect.

The accommodation was very pleasant and food was good. All the staff was wonderful. I will recommend Volunteering Solutions to others for sure.

The pre departure booklet was very useful. I had a very good time at placement with lot of interesting experiences. Really good to stay at such a rural region and to get closely people living there.

The home stay was very simple but clean with a lot of friendly and helpful people. My host family was very nice. Really took care of me and helped me with each issue. The meals were good during whole day. Especially not so spicy and sweet thing in the morning.

I was stratified how things are going and would recommend Volunteering Solutions to others.

I love my program placement at orphanage and Elephant camp. I enjoyed working there and got a lot out of it. It was good to see a different aspect of Sri Lanka and would recommend to anyone.

House is comfortable and we are well provided for. Family is friendly and helpful with any questions and any health problems. They have all been lovely and friendly. Meals were tasty and freshly cooked. All in all would recommend staying here and have enjoyed my stay.

The coordinator and his family were very helpful. He has ensured everything is good with placement and any other issues. Made all volunteers very welcome and part of family.

I liked the website. The amazing thing was destinations as we can see the programs sorted by destination. The information booklet was very complete. The general service of the staff regarding the answers to my questions was very good and helpful.

I enjoyed working at the project and placement where I had the possibility to work. My experience was very good I would repeat it if I have the possibility to do it.

Regarding the accommodation we had stains falling directly on our beds for 3-4 nights due to the rains. The meals were good in quality and quantity. The coordinator was very helpful I would surely recommend Volunteering Solutions to others.

What areas did you like about our website?
Easy to use and informative.

How did you find the pre departure booklet given to you and the service of the staff in regards to answering your questions and helping you prepare?
Very Helpful. Info regarding Ghana was very helpful.

Did you enjoy working at your project / placement?
Yes. The staff at Zingwangwa Primary School was wonderful. They are so friendly and accommodating and nothing was ever a problem. For some people the class size can be a bit daunting.

Accommodation and meals
Perfect ! Wonderful host mother and family. Would recommend anyone to stay here. We have no complaints whatsoever. Very good location. Right next to the school in which we worked.

What was the highlight of your volunteering experience and your trip?
Living with a host family ensures a true authentic Ghanaian experience. Also the independence that we had. Nobody from the organization was chasing us and making rules. The energy of the children we taught was infectious and I wont ever forget it.

Would you recommend this program and our organization to others? yes/no
YES!

Any comments and suggestions
Just make the potential volunteers aware of the size of classes and age group of children in the class.

What areas did you like about our website?
The way the different types of volunteering countries and different program options were listed.

How did you find the pre departure booklet given to you and the service of the staff in regards to answering your questions and helping you prepare?
Very helpful. Could just include a little part on specifics of culture but his info was provided to us when we got here. Staff at the main office was very helpful.

Did you enjoy working at your project / placement?
Very much so ! All the teachers and other members of the staff were very accommodating and nice to us. The children were very receptive and I thoroughly enjoyed the work.

Accommodation and meals
Great ! The host family was amazing and could not have done more for us. They made us feel very comfortable and at home. They were very kind to us and we felt like part of the family.

What was the highlight of your volunteering experience and your trip?
Teaching the children was such an exhilarating experience. Teaching a class of around 60 children with another 30 looking in from the window and all of them singing the song you have just taught them is something that can never be revealed.

Would you recommend this program and our organization to others? yes/no
Certainly. Everything about the project was fantastic. The organization is great because it sets you up with a local staff who you can contact if you need but otherwise they offer freedom.

How did you find the pre departure booklet given to you and the service of the staff in regards to answering your questions and helping you prepare?
Received email updates about the program and about Cambodia to be prepared for culture and living conditions

Did you enjoy working at your project / placement?
Yes. I worked as a teacher and tutor at the Cambodian Children of Happiness orphanage every Monday-Friday from 8-4. Often times there would be dead time with little to do but I would find ways to get around that. The children were wonderful and the staff was helpful though often time&rsquo s tasks were a little ill-defined and consulting the staff could make things more confusing. The children speak better English than some of the staff.

Accommodation and meals
The best part of Cambodia for me. The family provided breakfast and dinner in the house and packed lunches for us. Their children were also incredible in taking us around Phnom Penh and speaking in English with us.

Coordinator
Sebastian was very helpful and constantly checking to make sure if everything was alright as well as working to make sure that I was having a pleasant experience. Anica who helped coordinate my departure was delightful and very well organized in making sure everything went well.

Would you recommend this program and our organization to others? yes/no
YES!!! This was wonderful! There are many days back home in the United States when I wish I was in Cambodia.

I liked being able to read the individual information on the projects and to read the reviews of past volunteers. The website is very comprehensive. The pre departure booklet was very efficient and helpful.

I very much enjoyed working at my placement. I achieved more than I thought was possible. I really enjoyed the boat trip down a river in Tam Coc. I also enjoyed Halong Bay and the villages in Sapa. Everything about the placement was amazing.

All the local staff and at the school made me feel very welcome safe and supported. Accommodation was nice and comfortable. Food was excellent. Our cook " Nga" provided by Volunteering Solutions was the most amazing cook.

I would surely recommend Volunteering Solutions to friends and family.

The website was very easy to navigate it looked professional with plenty of useful information about the programs.The pre-departure booklet provided me with enough information to answer all my questions. I kept in consistent contact with one of the staff and I felt like I was getting one-on-one special service which I really liked.

I really enjoyed working at my project because it was very flexible and the school choosen for me was perfect because they were close to my age. The highlight was my students treating me so well and even offering to take me around Vietnam with them.

My coordinator was really friendly and quite helpful. The meal was healthy and delicious. I would definitely recommend this program to others because the volunteering aspect was fantastic.

I loved the look of the website especially " My Account" section. I think The pore departure booklet was very good and through. I didn´ t miss anything and nothing was in there what I didn´ t need.

I loved my program placement very much. I loved the kids and it was really hard to say goodbye. I loved my work the teaching in other countries is awesome and playing soccer with them makes the kids feel so important. I got a lot of positive feedbacks from the teachers and the principals and I felt good after working there.

The highlight of my trip was that I climbed Table Mountain a few times and loved it. The South African landscape in general is amazing and another highlight was that I good play soccer in a women league in Cape Town.

Coordinator' s were around all the time and they were really open towards the volunteers. Especially because they were young they fitted very well in their jobs and into the volunteer group. It was all good the accommodation was really nice and the food was also good and all wishes or suggestions were considered by the cook.

YES I would surely recommend Volunteering Solutions to anyone.

I liked everything about the website. Its holds all the information you need and more and it' s also easy to find the information you' re looking for. The information booklet like the website had all the information I needed. I had a lot of questions before coming to India so I sent a lot of e-mails to VS. I was impressed that they always replied my e-mails within just a few hours!! The fact they answered my questions so fast made me a lot more relaxed about choosing VS and going to India.

I Absolutely loved my program placement! I wouldn' t give back my 7 weeks with the street children for anything! I had no problem getting to and from work and I felt comfortable in the center with the children and the people who worked there. I do feel like my time was appreciated maybe because I stayed a little bit longer than just a couple of weeks. I fell completely in love with the children and also grew close friends with local staff at the center. They do such a great job with the kids. One of the saddest things I' ve ever done was leaving them behind and since I come home not a day goes by where I don' t think about them. I will keep them with me in my heart forever. The highlight was All the love the kids were able to give me and every morning when I arrived at the center and the kids shouted " Good morning Anine Diddi!!"

Rajiv for me was a great coordinator and host. Whenever I needed something Rajiv and Priya were happy to help. They would answer all my questions and give me tips on where to go and what to do. Yogen was also very eager to entertain and help out the volunteers. We were offered clean and comfortable accommodation at Rajiv' s. At first I was skeptical to sharing a room with so many other volunteers but it worked out fine and I made some friends for life. Food is good. I think it is good that they serve Indian food.

I would surely Recommend Volunteering Solutions to friends and family.

The description of each program the photos and step by step process of programs is what I liked about website. The pre departure information was excellent.

I loved the program. The kids and the staff at the kids center were very friendly. The highlight was experiencing new culture which is different from my own country. First volunteering experience and first experience of working with children. It gave me the understand that I want to help/teach children in the future and make a change in the world.

The coordinators were very helpful and friendly. Accommodation and meals were nice. No complaints.

Yes I will surely recommend Volunteering Solutions to anyone who wants to volunteer abroad.

Did you enjoy working at your project / placement?
Jeannie: - Yes the people were delightful and I learned a lot out of this program.
Kelly: - Yes it was very valuable. The girls were great and it taught me a lot about myself.
Colleen: - Yes I found teaching to be very rewarding. Teaching taught me about the culture but about myself.
Ryan: - Yes I enjoyed teaching and helping the masses.

Accommodation and meals
Jeannie: - Bucket showers are fabulous. Meals were delicious variety is the key.
Kelly: - The house was great. The meals were delicious.
Colleen: - Everyone was very accommodating with everything that we could need.
Ryan: - The food cooked by the girls was great and the house was very nice. I was very impressed with the great house.


What was the highlight of your volunteering experience and your trip?

Jeannie: - Observing the women their daily tasks as well as working with them.

Kelly: - Seeing the girls understand what I was teaching them. I taught tough materials and most of them could keep up.

Colleen: - When the kids finally understand a concept its a wonderful feeling.

Ryan: - There were too many great moments at the school.

Would you recommend this program and our organization to others? yes/no
Jeannie: - Yes.
Kelly: - Yes it helps people to learn about themselves.
Colleen: - Yes.
Ryan: - Yes this is a life changing trip that everyone should take in their lives.

Any comments and suggestions
Jeannie: - Frederick you are the Godfather and are very accommodating to volunteers.
Kelly: - We will miss you guys! :)
Colleen: - Valuable trip.
Ryan: - You are all doing a great job setting us up. I would say that I should have spent more time teaching.

The programs on the website were classified by country and were easy to find and choose from. The pre-departure booklet was useful and contained all the information which was needed. Staff was also very helpful and prompt in their responses.

I not only enjoyed my program placement a lot but can also say that have learned and understood myself during my volunteer work. The main highlight of my volunteer experience and my trip is work with street children that was very exciting interesting and educational. I realized that there is someone in the world who really need help more than I had thought. The visit to Akshardham temple was fascinating as well.

The coordinator and staff were very helpful knowledgeable and professional. The accommodation was convenient and comfortable. Meals were good tasty and healthy.

Yes I would surely recommend Volunteering Solutions to people.