Ready for the long-awaited vacation? It would be nice that when you return, in this post under "comments" raccontaste your impressions of the places we visited ... account? I wait.
For me, I had opted for something educational, attracted by advertising on a working holiday with the WWF in the form of volunteering. This was to assist and protect the eggs of sea turtles, to encourage breeding. But not only. Days and nights of work of various kinds, including beach cleaning, fire-fighting and a real awareness campaign directed to the fishermen. A fascinating program, which makes the summer more difficult and less holiday, but that can give us the opportunity to do something concrete for nature, and that was my intention to join. Tab information, it was stated that the accommodation provides the organization depending on time of year (bungalows, tents, etc.).
When I volunteered, I got the work program in detail: days intense course, and leisure were also provided interesting guided tours. By August, we would be housed in a camp reserved for the WWF. Then, line by line, I get nothing from the words "COSTS". And I discover that in addition to mandatory membership (which I consider correct), there was a strange voice that spoke of almost € 300 for miscellaneous expenses including the overhead costs of field management, expenditure on activities turtle project (electricity, fuel, and "etc." unspecified). The tours then, are paid separately. And, please, all the camping gear you carry it you, including torches to spend nights to monitor the eggs. Have you ever had to volunteer with the ambulance? We have applied for ... pay for the petrol?
I read, reread, and still over again, because I think it was easier to have misunderstood that they have misunderstood something. Then, I got a great sadness. Great, yes. If they had sought financing partners, I would have understood, is not easy to take care of others or of nature without a lira. But there are many ways to have others share the difficulties and to get support. This "way" instead, separates us, makes us even feel a huge sense of disappointment, regret.
So prepare your suitcase with you to achieve other goals, in the hope that sooner or later encounter a sea turtle Caretta caretta (high risk of extinction, it seems) and explain how things work here, including humans.
With a little bit 'of melancholy I wish you a happy holiday, write,
your
Susanna
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