Love Volunteers

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4.8

Excellent

138

Reviews

14

Years in business

Love Volunteers has been placing volunteers around the world for over seven years. We're passionate about making a difference in developing communities.

About Us

Love Volunteers has been placing volunteers around the world for over seven years. We're passionate about making a difference in developing communities.

Our History

  • June 2009: Julian and Kelly (a brother and sister team from New Zealand) were shocked by the huge fees charged for volunteering ...

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About Us

Love Volunteers has been placing volunteers around the world for over seven years. We're passionate about making a difference in developing communities.

Our History

  • June 2009: Julian and Kelly (a brother and sister team from New Zealand) were shocked by the huge fees charged for volunteering abroad. They knew there must be a better way!
  • July 2009: Eager to provide transparent and cost effective volunteering, work began on what would become Love Volunteer.
  • August 2009: Visting worthy projects and developing relationshsips with local charities begins. A voyage that would see the duo cover half the globe in six months.
  • January 2010: The Love Volunteers website is launched with just 20 projects across 12 countries.
  • March 2010: Our first volunteer, Daniel, joins us on a project in Ethiopia! The first of many thousands to follow!
  • May 2010: Within months, Love Volunteers is placing over 50 volunteers a month
  • January 2011: We work with our first student group, sending Tim and 30 of his medical students from Columbia University to Guatemala.
  • May 2011: Our 1,000th volunteer, Emily, joins the team in Vietnam
  • February 2012: We begin working with our partner in Zambia - country number 30.
  • May 2013: We're recognized as one of the top volunteering organizations in the world.
  • July 2014: We add our 100th project - in Costa Rica.
  • October 2015: Kelly and Mike spend 18 months visiting projects throughout Central & South America, Europe and Asia.
  • February 2016: Nicole joins the team as our volunteer support manager. Later, Karen also comes on board.
  • June 2017: We undertake a huge rebrand of Love Volunteers to better reflect our mission of serving local communities in developing countries.

Contact Person

Karen Stead

Spoken languages: English
  Very high response rate

Love Volunteers reviews

Jess Gustafson rating5.0

2023 at Environmental Conservation Worker

This was a great experience volunteering for CVNZ and I learned a lot about nature conservation in Aotearoa New Zealand as well as about the culture. The staff were very helpful for suggesting places to visit on the weekends and I had a great time with the other volunteers. I would definitely do ...
Philine Dekkers rating4.8

2023 at Great Barrier Reef Conservation Experience

This was an amazing experience! I would highly recommend learning to dive in the Great Barrier Reef! Also the marine conservation week was great, learned a lot. The information provided and using that on the Great Barrier Reef gives a feeling of really helping. Everything was organised very good! ...
Tomas Heijnen rating4.6

2023 at Great Barrier Reef Conservation Experience

Erg leuk programma, snorkelen op de eilanden was erg leuk. Erg goed verzorgd door de coordinatoren. Wel jammer dat het water erg koud was (juli), dus het snorkelen kon je niet lang volhouden. ..
Dawn Harrage rating4.0

2023 at Community Initiatives

Made very welcome by the community programme that I worked with. It was about a 20 minute bus journey away but the buses are very regular and inexpensive. The hostel was great and being in New Orleans for Mardi Gras was amazing. Beware, though, food and drinks can be expensive (compared to what I'm ...
Jasmijn Doorgeest rating2.8

2023 at Empowering local women

I did one week of volunteering at the women's empowerment project. The women were amazing, just as the managers of the project. The overall experience was very rewarding. However, I have two things I liked less: there is no structure in the curriculum. This means that I thought several lessons, but ...
Victoria Schmettow rating1.4

2023 at Marine Conservation Supporter

I applied for the Marine Conservation program and wanted to stay for two weeks - I left early as this whole thing was more or less a scam. The location is not a "short journey from the beach" and not where the map shows but way further inland. We had bad/no wifi, our showers were not working ...