Can you move abroad for cheap or free?

Question

Next summer I want to go away from the UK for a few month. I've looked at the volunteering opportunities but you have to pay a total fortune.

Any suggestions on what I can do?... anything considered.!

Also a website/book/magazine that can point me in the right direction.

By then I will (hopefully) have graduated BSc Community Health.

Answer 1

Possibly joining an army or such, they'll ship you abroad for free. Also, a less dangerous route would be checking out your local voluteering scene and often they have options for helping out people in less developed countries, they usually get  the funding from vaious donations and fundraisers.

Hope I helped ^^'

Answer 2

I went to work in the US with Camp America about 10 years ago. I had to pay a bunch of fees but with the money I got working for 3 months it equalled out.

Most volunteering opportunities are a tad expensive, since they cover the costs the agency has plus your own food and accomodation whereever you go. Another share goes to cover potential excursions for you and your mates at the volunteer project. There are a number of volunteer organisations that are run just like travel agencies, you pay money and apart from volunteering you get to see something of the countryside in return.

What people do who do not want to go through the volunteer agencies is to pick a country they are interested in, look up the amount of money they need to stay in this country for a certain period of time, save this amount up and then look for a project that might be worth their time and effort. I've spoken to some who got of the plane in India, Nepal or Egypt and no clue where they would volunteer, but ended up teaching English to school children or helping sick animals within 2 weeks.

With your degree however maybe you could look for real job working abroad. NGO's and government agencies specialising in development work would be the ones to ask.

Answer 3

I'm becoming an Au Pair for practically nothing. All I have to do is pay for my plane ticket, my visa and my luggage and my au pair family is paying for my apartment and car (not typical of au pair families) and I watch their 6 and 15 year old daughters for a total of 5 hours a day and I have Saturdays off plus two weeks vacation.

You might also want to try it out.