Free volunteering abroad - from 4 - 51 weeks

Join us at any point in the year

We’ll meet you at the airport (or at a local hotel depending on your flight arrival time),

and take you to your first home in Sri Lanka

• You’ll be housed with our teachers in their homes

• You will receive 3 meals per day at your base location

• You will be deployed across a variety of locations

• You’ll spend 2, and a maximum of 3 weeks with any one host family

You will be given an orientation session on arrival

Whilst in Sri Lanka, you'll have the option to learn Sinhala, and or Tamil

You’ll enroll on our partner’s government certificated Teaching English as a 2nd language (TE2L) course prior to arrival.

(This course justifies your visa, and gives the legal right to volunteer).

• on the 2nd renewal of your visa, after the first 90 day, you’ll pay $95 for the TE2L

• you’ll begin the part time taught part of the course (see details)

• you’ll join in-person taught days (see details)

You’ll volunteer a consecutive 4 day week, as

• a teacher’s aid,

• language assistant,

• conversation lead

• in local school’s with children learning English

• teacher as your experience and confidence enables

You’ll have the following free days:

• 3 consecutive days each week, taken

  • at your base accommodation

  • or elsewhere at your expense

additional free days include:

• 1-3 days pcm (we plan 28/30-31 days)

• the monthly full moon poya day (if on a volunteer day)

  (should you join the TE2L, some of these days will go towards your in-person taught days.)

You can have extended breaks, as agreed with our partner, of

• 4 - 9 days in each 3 month visa period

• up to 18 days in your final visa period, taken at:

  • our partner’s central campus (to a maximum of 7 days with 5 full, and 2 half board)

  • any other location at your expense

Your visas are issued for 30, 60, 90, 90, and 90 days (360 days / 51 weeks)