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Why Overcoming Frontiers?

 

Great Reasons To  be Volunteer With US

 

Affordability

 

One of the main motivations behind the formation of Overcoming Frontiers was to provide volunteers with high quality, safe and yet extremely affordable volunteering opportunities in Colombia South America. Many people associate low cost with low quality - not us. Our volunteer programs are the best there are.  We want to provide you with the best volunteer experience possible at the cheapest price, so you have money to spend on other things while you are abroad. Why spend thousands on volunteering abroad when the best programs and prices are with Overcoming Frontiers? Programs start from just $200! Check out our affordable volunteer program prices . 

 

Flexibility

 

Every volunteer is different, and everybody has different expectations from their volunteer placement. Therefore, Overcoming Frontiers has partnered with local organizations who are flexible and can help tailor volunteering placements for each specific volunteer.  Some volunteers may want to work huge hours at their project while others may only want to spend a few hours each day working. Some volunteers may want to work in rural areas, others the city and some may even want a combination of the two. Our partner organization will work with you and do their utmost to ensure your volunteer experience is what you want, not simply what you are given.

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Quality

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While we are prepared to sacrifice charging high fees, we will not sacrifice quality. We are not prepared to send volunteers to a placement that is unsafe or of low quality, and to this end all the volunteer placements and accommodation options we offer, have been inspected and experienced by Overcoming Frontiers staff. 

 

Support

 

From the moment you pay your registration fee at Overcoming Frontiers you will have support 24/7 until the day you finish your volunteer project. You will receive an informative online booklet detailing everything you need to know about your imminent volunteer placement specific to your country while you will also be assigned an Overcoming Frontiers staff member who will be your point of call until you go and also throughout your project. During your volunteer placement you will always have support close at hand through our partner organization in the host country, while Overcoming Frontiers will be in regular contact to ensure your volunteer experience is everything you expect it to be.

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Safety

 

Travelling to a different country and experiencing a different culture can be a scary experience at the best of times, but when you are immersing yourself right into the culture through volunteering and living amongst the local community, this apprehension can often be compounded. While safety can never be totally guaranteed wherever we are in the world, Overcoming Frontiers do all it can to ensure your volunteering project is as safe as humanly possible. You are placed in trustworthy institutions and reliable accommodation situations all of which have been inspected and experienced by Overcoming Frontiers staff.

 

Friendship

 

Volunteers on Overcoming Frontiers programs often form lifelong friendships with their host families and the people they assist on the volunteer programs. However, they also form strong bonds with the other volunteers they meet, work, and live with on their placements. Despite many volunteers coming from extremely dissimilar backgrounds, the experiences that these volunteers share forge strong ties that can last a lifetime, despite their vastly different home cultures. 

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Need

 

There is nothing worse than investing your time and money into volunteer travel, then flying halfway around the world simply to find that your presence is not really required. Overcoming Frontiers actively seeks partner organizations that have a legitimate need for volunteers. Whether your stay is a short or a long one, our partner organizations will do their utmost to ensure you DO make a difference.

 

Loyalty

 

Loyalty is a crucial element to the foundations that Overcoming Frontiers has been built on. Making the decision to invest your time and money to volunteer abroad is a difficult one and to this end we try to make it as easy for you as possible. We make the registration fee refundable so if you change your mind closer to the time (no closer than 2 months to your start date) you will receive your money back. We also show strong loyalty to the communities and people with which we work, setting up sustainable long-term partnerships with local organizations and institutions which allow long term prosperity for the people in the communities in which volunteers are placed.

 

Enjoyment

 

There is much more to a top-quality volunteer travel experience than simply volunteering day in, day out. Volunteering with Overcoming Frontiers you get additional bonuses such as photo and video competitions. Furthermore, most volunteers are first time travelers to their host country and often wish to look around and explore. To accommodate this our in-country partner organizations have partner tourism companies or contacts that allow you to ‘escape’ from the rigors of day-to-day volunteer work, to spend a weekend or extended break, experiencing more of the country you are working in. Often the prices for these tours and trips are much better than you’ll find anywhere else in that country as the trips are discounted for volunteers