The best two weeks in my life with IVHQ!

International Volunteer HQ gave me an unforgettable, life-changing and mind-blowing experience in Wildlife Conservation (Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe)! Everything was well-organized, I felt their support and willingness to help on every stage of the journey. The programme itself was well-structured and diverse, and I had an opportunity to take part in something meaningful and impactful for myself and our Planet. The variety of activities was great, including but not limited to collecting litter, helping local farmers with eradicating weed and tare, and raking the soil for further planting, cutting detrimental ‘Lantana’ bush, cleaning the area around electric fence, etc. The work wasn’t so hard, however it was physically challenging and as a result I gained some muscles.

In our spare time we used to hang out at the hotel nearby - we drank coffee/beer/fizzy drinks and played cool card games, such as Switch (also known as Crazy Eight, very similar to Uno), Kings and As*holes (my fav!!), and Skan*y Queen.

On Friday evening we went to the town to drink beer at the brewery (The River), play pool and dance at backpackers’ hostel (called Shoestrings), whereas in the weekend we partook in some wild activities, such as white water rafting.

So far nothing’s been said about people - the most important and memorable part of my journey. The volunteers who partook in this programme with me were just incredible, and I made some great friends and acquaintances from different parts of the world! I hope we’ll keep chit-chatting and perhaps one day we’ll go volunteering together.

To draw a conclusion I’d like to say that for me the best indicator of ‘coolness’ of a certain experience is emotional spectrum, i.e. the variety of emotions felt. My emotions and feelings varied from literally laughing my a*s off to breaking down in tears. Guys, I’m not trying to say that I’m emotionally unstable :) The only thing I’m trying to convey is IVHQ may evoke polar emotions, but they won’t leave you indifferent!

IVHQ one love!!!