Introduction
Vacations volunteer for seniors are vacations for the elderly who are retired and want to make them useful. These vacations are good in a way that they enhance your learning skills and your knowledge including your experiences and also the work you do will help many people. The volunteer work is done while travelling and you do not get paid instead you present yourself for helping humanity. There are many national and international institutes that undergo the volunteer work and take trips to places where they think they can help people. The seniors then can also forma a community and work for the humanity till the end of their lives and this way many people who are lonely find good friends to make the best of the time that they have left. The work might be of different nature than that you have done all your life. The activities might also be indoor and outdoor both. Vacations volunteer are a way to spend your leisure and free time usefully.
History
Long ago these trips for volunteer work were short term and meant for special purposes and were projects. They were not meant as vacations. The idea of volunteer vacations was at first not liked and people did not participate in these vacations and the volunteer work but gradually the young people started going for volunteer work and the seniors also followed. People who did not have anything to do at home go on vacations and helped the people who were homeless, sick and needed care and protection and medicine and the people who were needy. Old men and women started going on these trips arranged by some national and international instititutions. Women mostly worked as caretakers for orphans and the men worked as doctors and sometimes gardeners. Vacations volunteer was a new idea for helping the humanity and is gaining popularity nowadays more than ever.
Features
Some institutions that arrange volunteer work and take people on trips and vacations include earth watch institute, cross cultural solutions and habitat for humanity international. The earth watch institute works for research and science and education projects and the volunteers work in the fields with the scientists and the researchers on many projects and assignments. The topics also vary such as marine science, public health and conservation biology. Seniors above the age of 50 have worked for the earth watch institute and offered their skills and services for serving the humanity. People can also find projects that match their field of interest on the website of the earth watch institute. Cross cultural solutions institute is working currently in 12 countries and have trips of varying length. The volunteers for cross culture solutions help the poor and the needy by teaching little children, taking care of very old and very young and the vacations volunteers have to work and live like the locals of the country they are working in. Habitat for humanity international makes houses and residences for homeless people and work in above 90 countries. Apart from doing the work the volunteers will also get a chance for sightseeing the local area. All in all vacations volunteer are a good and effective way to improve the world and make it a better place to live.
Tips and comments
Before deciding on the work that you are volunteering for you should keep in mind that you will have to live like all the other people and you will not be treated differently. You will be just like the other volunteer workers and are only meant to help the people. There is no leisure and your only motive of volunteering should be helping the poor and not travelling or vacation.
