GiveGetGo adventures pair volunteer building and travel, making for unforgettable, life changing vacations. The tangible rewards of GiveGetGo projects set it apart from the competition, as do its travel itineraries, which allow volunteers to get a true sense of the destination they are visiting. The company avoids using the word “voluntourism” because while they do combine volunteer work and touri
sm, these aspects are very separate elements to each trip. Relaxing in comfortable accommodations is central to each itinerary, whether it is during the build portion or travel portion of the trips. Our intentions within the developing world communities we work in are to build, renovate, and refurbish schools and orphanages for recognized Registered Canadian Charities. These projects are already community-identified needs as often established by the local ICA office. GiveGetGo does extensive pre project analysis by visiting, often several times to ensure a learned service experience fully cognoscente of community and project needs. We meet with ICA staff, learn about the entire community, and of course gain a complete understanding of the parameters of our project involvement. In addition all our partnership charities are well established with a long term commitment to these communities. How is the work of the international volunteer sustained after his or her departure? All our build projects are within extreme poverty locations. The buildings that we are helping build will be used for generations to come. We build, and we will return many times with many teams, often for several years. However, the facilities we help create will last for generations. And our chosen partner charities are there forever. It is a requirement of our assistance. Our charities are successful, well funded and will always maintain this new facility and children they serve, for generations. The communities they serve have entirely too many homeless children with little or no hope of perhaps even survival, let alone a decent education. If our charities were not there, these projects would not likely happen.
