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Age:

Project location:

Accommodation:

Meals:

Number of volunteers:

Project operates:

Minimum stay:

Summer places available:

More places available:

Costs:

Getting there:

18yrs+ on arrival

Rural, island location

Volunteer accommodation

Self catering /eat cheaply in town

6-10 (max)

All year round

4 weeks (longer stays possible and warmly appreciated)

Only 2 spaces left 10th June - 13th July 08 call us now to reserve or register on FREEPHONE 0800 345 75 82

November onwards

£25 per week

Allow £25 per week extra to cover food.

Volunteers usually fly to Utila (or take the ferry from the mainland) with stopovers in San Pedro Sula and La Ceiba.

Please contact Original Volunteers to check availability before buying flights as space on this project is limited

What’s included in this programme

Comfortable volunteer accommodation

Materials and resources

Support and orientation 24/7 on site

We consider this project ideal if you

Want to experience living and working on a tropical island location

Want to gain an insight into conservation within a safe, supportive, friendly environment

Want to work alongside other committed volunteers

Enjoy the outdoors

Honduras at a glance

Honduras is a country of contrasts, from the mountain ranges that cover over 80% of the country to the flat coastal areas, the military presence to the friendly, tranquil people.

The Bay Islands where this placement is located are made up of Roatan, Guanaja, Utila and smaller cays which for over 300 years were witness to slave raids and piracy before trade in bananas and other fruit was established. Today most of the islanders are mostly fishermen and merchant seamen who can spend long periods away from their families and paradise home.

The dominant language of the Bay Islands is still English and many locals tend to see themselves as English or American rather than Honduran.

Roatan the biggest island has a substantial town, airport, fishing villages, a cinema, hotels and excellent beaches popular with tourists.

Utila is a sleepy little island surrounded by beautiful beaches and was the original site of the first banana and fruit plantations in the Bay Islands. The main town is East Harbour and accommodation is limited. This is the location of the conservation centre and where volunteers will be living and working.

Guanaja, covered in pine-covered mountains, waterfalls, beautiful beaches and numerous reefs is the most easterly island and measures only 21 square miles.

Climate: Year round average : 25 degrees Celcius, wet season and highest temperatures May-September

Currency: Lempira

Getting there: flight to San Pedro Sula in Honduras (via Miami) followed by connecting internal flight to Utila (placement location).

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At a glance

Accommodation Inc.

Airport Pick-up Service.

Food Self-catering.

Honduras at a glance :

£25 per week

Your experience

Located on the Bay Islands off the north coast of Honduras, volunteers

help in a variety of ways at this iguana conservation centre and could choose between: showing visitors around the centre, environmental education with small groups of local children, animal care, gardening, station maintenance and monitoring the iguana population.

Everyone is welcome here, you do not need experience just a willingness

to have a go and help protect the iguana’s natural habitat.

Placement overview

This placement is sure to tick all your boxes: worthwhile environmental voluntary work, guaranteed sun, island location, azure sea and white sand beaches in a little visited corner of the

Caribbean.

Honduras Conservation on a tiny unspoilt Caribbean island