Find the Right Activity for your Volunteer Trip

What is the most valuable skill set you think you bring to the project?
A - Physically capable of performing various manual labor tasks
B - Experience working with either sick or injured people
C - I work well in groups and am able to learn quickly
D - I enjoy working with children, and am generally very patient

What is your personal interest in volunteer work?
A - Seeing projects through to completion to benefit communities
B - Providing people with help and resources they otherwise could not find in their community
C - Working with children
D - Helping people develop skill sets to better their own communities (ie, teach a man to fish)

How would you deem your experience a success?
A - I would like to see a project through to completion, and know that when I left, the job was done.
B - Knowing that I helped improve the well-being of someone's life
C - Seeing the smiles on the faces of the community as you leave
D - If I can help lay a foundation for a community to build on, the experience was worth it

Personally, how important is it for you to work with other volunteers?
A - I enjoy working on teams, and believe that more volunteers would bring more resources and I would enjoy my experience more.
B - Working with other volunteers is good, if they are on the project to work first and be social second.
C - I think working in a group would bring a good energy and dynamic to the project
D - It's not important at all.  I am there for the community, not for myself.

Answer Key:

Mostly As - then consider building projects.

Mostly Bs - then maybe health work is for you.

Mostly Cs - try community development.

Mostly Ds - try teaching.

If you answered the same amount of each, then you need to go on several trips!