Problems and Solutions

What's wrong with other organisations and companies?

(Note: Our solutions are in green)

Many volunteer opportunities in Thailand are too expensive to afford; some costing over $800 or more! The reasons for this range from:

1. High-overhead costs due to a large staff number/You can count the number of staff on one hand.
2. Volunteers are housed in houses built by the organisation(you're paying the rent/cost of construction), houses that are rented, or sometimes even hotels! Our housing is provided voluntarily by families within the community you will be helping. Sorry, no hotels this time, but housing can range from traditional to western-like housing.
3. Fortunately, people care enough to pay a lot of money to volunteer in beautiful Thailand; Unfortunately, people are willing to take volunteer's money to help themselves. By allowing the volunteers to know exactly where their money went, we have made them part of the check and balance system. Sometimes we might need a good kick in the pants and told where you think your money should go. This is what I call "see-through management." If we start to act shady, you'll see through it and call us out on it. 
   

Many Organisations and companies make faulty claims on what they deliver. Others keep very general, "You will be given meals, a room and be volunteering...somewhere..." By keeping this site up to date, writing personal emails, and keeping in contact with volunteers and their site through-out the volunteering period we can deliver on the claims we make, and adjust to yours and the site's preferences. 

Unwillingness to explain what exactly, "Paper Filing" really requires...and why it costs $500...

...We use a blackboard and chalk...

Volunteers often do not feel like they were prepared well before arriving to their sites. We hope to have pictures of various homestays and communities to give volunteers a better idea of where they will be living and who they will be living with. (No one likes being surprised with the fact that they have to share a bed...)

Many of the free or cheap volunteer sites are in Thai! I cannot read Thai, either... But any I find I will put up here.