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What is a Voluntour?

Building Houses for Tsunami Refugees
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Norm Cowen, a Canadian voluntourer works on a environmentally friendly roof structure in Sri Lanka

A voluntour provides an exciting opportunity for anyone to use their education and life experiences to bring decent, environmentally friendly housing solutions to children affected by civil war, natural disaster or poverty.  During a voluntour participants will be joined together into teams assigned with local workers to build houses, clinics, schools and other structures that will provide one of a child’s most basic needs; shelter.

A voluntour is more than the physical experience that we are to expect when building a home; it is also an emotional experience that will allow you to personally interact bringing much needed support, hope and love to these children.  Building a home for an orphan is a once in a lifetime experience that will not only change your own perceptions about your own being but it will also expose you to the serious crisis that plague children throughout every nation. 

A voluntour is an opportunity where you can bring your enthusiasm, motivation and desire to help children in need under the care and support of our trained team leaders, who will provide the additional support needed to guarantee that you have a meaningful and productive building experience. 

Your voluntour could make the difference in not just one life but many lives.

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Building Nimals New Home
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Donald (left) & Nimal pose for a photo while volunteers raise the first two wall panels.

“Later during the dedication ceremony when it was time for Nimal to ceremoniously unlock the door to his new home, I was surprisingly overcome with emotion; it had been an incredible journey and a strong sense of accomplishment bringing together a small international community of volunteers along with local workers all within 21 days.  Building this home has changed me as a person and I feel that I have a clearer purpose with the talents that I have been blessed with.  I left Sri Lanka several days before Christmas and I knew no gift could be greater than the vision that I had of Nimal smiling as he entered his new home with his family.”

Donald A. Stevens, Balapitiya, Sri Lanka
December 22, 2005