If you like the idea of visiting India, not just as a passive onlooker but an active participant, helping to provide health care facilities, Relief Workers International would be pleased to hear from you.
RWI are offering 2 voluntourist trips to India in the early part of 2009. The first runs from January 29 through February 9 and the second from February 27 through March 10. The cost of the trip is $5,950 per person, with a single supplement of $1,200 if you are traveling alone. This covers not just your accommodation and meals but also entertainment and a contribution towards delivering the humanitarian relief carried out by RWI, who are mainly concerned with providing free cataract eye surgery. It does not cover air fares, but does include travel to and from the airport in India.
If you are interested, full details are on the Relief Workers International site.
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These do sound like fabulous trips!
If you are interested in volunteering and visiting other parts of India, Hands Up Holidays (www.handsupholidays.com) has trips that enable you to help teach in a Delhi slum and then explore the Taj Mahal, a tiger reserve, and Jaipur in Rajasthan.
Or, you can travel east to Kolkata, tour that buzzing city, and travel to the remote Sunderbans and a community-based tourism project where you can immerse yourself in village life, and help build a conservation centre, or help plant mangroves.
Come and join us!