Volunteering is about giving of ourselves for the common good in the certain knowledge that such activity leads to personal growth and satisfaction.
The Fair Earth Foundation can provide various platforms to volunteer:
See below
The Fair Earth Foundation can provide various platforms to volunteer:
- In the UK: You can help the foundation in many ways in the UK. You can help fundraise for the Global Village Programme or for social, environmental, nature projects around the world OR you could help us deliver and manage our programmes in the UK and Globally. All UK volunteers get priority for International Placements and participation in Global Projects. For further information please contact [email protected]. More information below.
- In Tenerife, Islas Canarias, where we run the volunteer programme on the whale watching boats with the Atlantic Whale & Dolphin Foundation CIO, a member of the Fair Earth Foundation family of charity and not for profit organisations. More information below.
- Fair Earth Asia - 2024/25: We successfully launched our Fair Earth Asia Programme this Summer (2024) with student projects in Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, we have operational hubs now in Vietnam, Thailand and Sri Lanka and from each of these hubs we can send volunteers on projects work across the region. See our view photo gallery for 2024 check it on Flickr and for further information please [email protected]. We are not interested in providing cheap holidays and only want serious people who will show absolute respect to the people and communities we are working with. If interested in the first instance please send your CV and a covering motivation letter to Ed. More information below. Project areas of most relevance: Business; Interior Design; Fashion; Pottery/ Ceramics; Photography; Film Making; Conservation; Marine Studies; Anthropology; Tourism.
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More on the above programmes:
1. In the UK: Join one or more of our teams in the UK, developing and managing our core programmes. Apart from a great opportunity to work with dedicated teams making real differences, you will also have opportunity to travel, getting involved in our projects in the UK and around the world AND the possibility of generating personal income
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Key Teams:
To learn more about these teams and the work involved send an email to [email protected]
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Key Teams:
- Global Citizenship: working with school and community groups encouraging altruistic behaviour and supporting global grassroots projects through various programmes: Art and Nature; Plant a Tree, Fund a Dream; Global Village and FundRaising London Eco Film Festival (TheLEFF):working with the team developing this important event, encouraging film makers and photographers around the world raising awareness of critically important social, environmental and conservation issues.
- Global Village: help to create markets for, and sell, artisan products, including Powered by Women produce. Earn an income AND have a say in products and artisans supported with micro finance funding.
- Wellness: join our teams reaching out to young people amongst others with our Art of Living programmes- make real changes to people’s lives and earn income in the process. Join us in planning, promoting and running our retreats and festivals around the world.
- Earth Week: this annual event brings an extraordinary group of healers, therapists, spiritualists and conservationists - the Community of Ancients, together for a week of conversation, sharing and thinking. The goal is to develop our programmes going forward. At the same time the Ancients contribute to the EarthWeek Festival which is also held in Tenerife with the goal of raising awareness and inspiring action aimed at helping to make a better world.
To learn more about these teams and the work involved send an email to [email protected]
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2. In Tenerife:
Whale & Dolphin’ research-guiding volunteer programme. The AWdF has run the volunteer programme on the whale watching boats in Tenerife (the third largest whale watching operation in the world with 28 different cetacean species either resident in or migrating through the area) for some 35 years. It gives opportunity to young people, tens of thousands over the years, from all over the world to contribute through working as ‘research guides’ on the whale watching boats. The programme is low cost so as to make it accessible to everyone.
We are restricting the volunteer numbers to a maximum 15 at any one time going forward. We only want serious people on the programme; people who are committed to cetaceans whether through research, education or conservation- see below for range of opportunities available. (throughout Covid we opened the programme to other organisations unable to place their volunteers elsewhere and the consequence over the past couple of years has been pretty awful) The only way onto the programme now will be direct through us. We only want serious, committed individuals. In the first instance, send a CV and Letter of Motivation explaining why you want to be considered for a position. [email protected] There will be an informal interview process to ensure we only take in committed individuals.
The Project:
Our goal is to get back to where we were before Covid and build a dedicated cetacean team to grow with us as we re-open our global projects
Interested? Send your CV and Letter of Motivation to [email protected] Explain where your main interest lies, and when you will be available.
Discounts and scholarships are available. (normal cost £200pw to cover accommodation, board and all project logistics and resourcing)
Whale & Dolphin’ research-guiding volunteer programme. The AWdF has run the volunteer programme on the whale watching boats in Tenerife (the third largest whale watching operation in the world with 28 different cetacean species either resident in or migrating through the area) for some 35 years. It gives opportunity to young people, tens of thousands over the years, from all over the world to contribute through working as ‘research guides’ on the whale watching boats. The programme is low cost so as to make it accessible to everyone.
We are restricting the volunteer numbers to a maximum 15 at any one time going forward. We only want serious people on the programme; people who are committed to cetaceans whether through research, education or conservation- see below for range of opportunities available. (throughout Covid we opened the programme to other organisations unable to place their volunteers elsewhere and the consequence over the past couple of years has been pretty awful) The only way onto the programme now will be direct through us. We only want serious, committed individuals. In the first instance, send a CV and Letter of Motivation explaining why you want to be considered for a position. [email protected] There will be an informal interview process to ensure we only take in committed individuals.
The Project:
- A small dedicated cetacean team (15 max) working on the whale watching boats and on a small RIB (acoustics work)
- Three local project supervisors coordinating all activities including our dedicated and experienced research director.
- Three days (+) each week on the whale watching boats (as part of the crew- no prima donnas please!!) plus acoustics sessions on the rib:
- Roles within one or more of the following areas:
- Research: Acoustics; Photo identification- resident pilot whales and bottlenose dolphins; Migratory species; Research into inter-species communication with short-finned pilot whales and humans (particularly autistic children)
- Conservation: Raising awareness of conservation issues; Petitions; Citizen Science,
- Education: On the boats, the web, and in schools; Preparing didactics- posters and other educational resources. Developing our resources on the TES teacher resource website.
- Individual Projects contributing to our overall knowledge. Individuals on the programme are expected to contribute to our knowledge base in an area of particular interest - a research poster, educational resource, campaigning etc. We are looking for individuals with drive, commitment and passion.
- Priority access to our cetacean (and other) projects around the world
- Free time to enjoy Tenerife
Our goal is to get back to where we were before Covid and build a dedicated cetacean team to grow with us as we re-open our global projects
Interested? Send your CV and Letter of Motivation to [email protected] Explain where your main interest lies, and when you will be available.
Discounts and scholarships are available. (normal cost £200pw to cover accommodation, board and all project logistics and resourcing)
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1. Global volunteering. We have a range of volunteer opportunities across Asia, accessible from our project bases in Hanoi (Vietnam) and Kandy (Sri Lanka). Bangkok (Thailand) is our main travel hub- a fabulous city . Our main work in Asia since 2020 (Covid) has been in our fair trade operations, supporting local communities through helping them create their own wealth. Re-opening our volunteer programmes is another way of further supporting these communities.
Our key volunteer opportunities throughout the region are:
Additionally, our local project teams will ensure a complete immersion in the local culture to ensure your experience has maximum benefit to you. This will include trips of historic and cultural interest, all led by locals with great cultural insight and interest.
And, additionally, your programme will include stays with conservation organisations - Elephants, Leopards, Birds, Bears, Pangolin, Forests, Whales & Dolphins, Turtles and much more. The idea will be for you to build your personalised itinerary around the possibilities on offer with the view to determining where you would want to devote more time (should you want to). So, for example, you cold overnight at an elephant sanctuary to taste the volunteer experience and love it so much that you want to go back for a further week! In Vietnam, part of the programme allows you to spend time living with the various Hill Tribes that we work with. Great fun.
If you are interested in exploring the various Global Volunteering opportunities on offer please email [email protected] stating what your interests are and when you would be interested in participating. Our goal is to help you build a LOW COST volunteer programme that supports the local communities we work
with.
Our key volunteer opportunities throughout the region are:
- Supporting our Art & Nature programme working in communities, schools and temples with children on various art projects
- Supporting our Global Village project working with local artisans, mainly women, in developing their craft work to be more successful in finding sales in the West (we import containers of their crafts, paying fair prices and repatriating profits to their communities). This could develop into an income generator for you! Volunteers can learn craft skills in the process and we can run dedicated craft workshops (contributing more income to local women.) Fashion students would find this very useful and, if entrepreneurial, it could be the start of their own business in collaboration with local women. The same is true in other areas of product design be it toys, jewellery, bags, household or garden products etc.
- Supporting our Education programme helping teach language, conservation and business modules.
- Supporting Film (documentaries) & Photographic activities
- Supporting our important Story Telling work, capturing local myths and legends
- Supporting our Plant a Tree, Fund a Dream programme by helping plant trees.
Additionally, our local project teams will ensure a complete immersion in the local culture to ensure your experience has maximum benefit to you. This will include trips of historic and cultural interest, all led by locals with great cultural insight and interest.
And, additionally, your programme will include stays with conservation organisations - Elephants, Leopards, Birds, Bears, Pangolin, Forests, Whales & Dolphins, Turtles and much more. The idea will be for you to build your personalised itinerary around the possibilities on offer with the view to determining where you would want to devote more time (should you want to). So, for example, you cold overnight at an elephant sanctuary to taste the volunteer experience and love it so much that you want to go back for a further week! In Vietnam, part of the programme allows you to spend time living with the various Hill Tribes that we work with. Great fun.
If you are interested in exploring the various Global Volunteering opportunities on offer please email [email protected] stating what your interests are and when you would be interested in participating. Our goal is to help you build a LOW COST volunteer programme that supports the local communities we work
with.
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