Make a REAL difference in Cameroon with Love Volunteers!
- Cameroon
About Program
Cameroon has experienced very rapid urbanization has left casualties in its wake with HIV/Aids leaving large numbers of children orphaned and extreme poverty forcing children to survive without family from an early age. Cameroon schools, orphanages and medical services rely heavily on volunteers.
Our NGO partner offers many unique and innovative child and youth-centred programs that range from one time school construction projects to long term livelihood projects and from computer classes to vocational training for underprivileged youth. Love Volunteers shares their commitment to build a strong, stable and positive community in which members are valued.
Volunteers in Cameroon can enjoy a wonderful African experience in a country that has lots to offer yet has not really been discovered by the large tour groups and its easy to get around with the official languages being English and French.
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Location
Cameroon, a country at the crossroads between West and Central Africa, is often referred to as "Africa in miniature" for its geological and cultural diversity. Natural features include beaches, deserts, mountains, rainforests, and savannas. Interestingly, it's also home to over 250 native languages spoken by nearly 20 million people.
Response from Love Volunteers
Kevin,
Thank you for taking the time to leave a review for our program in Cameroon.
We’re surprised and sorry to hear you were disappointed with the role we played in securing your placement.
As you know we liaised with you in the two months leading up to your placement and provided all of the necessary information regarding your trip, answering all of your questions and ensuring you were well prepared so it’s a shame to hear you felt our service wasn’t worthwhile.
We take our role of placing volunteers with trusted partners seriously and spend a lot of time and effort finding, vetting and reviewing our partners and programs to ensure our volunteers have the best possible experience. We carry out program audits on a regular basis so we’re happy to hear that overall you had a good experience and were well cared for throughout your stay.
We work with our local partners to keep the fees to a minimum (they are some of the lowest available) and are set by our partners to cover the cost of hosting you as a volunteer. It is part of our ethos at Love Volunteers that we do not profit from the program fee – 100% goes to the local partners.
To clarify the situation in your case, our partner in Cameroon lists fees in Euro, but, converting to US Dollars, the program fee for 2 weeks ranges from US$160 - $190 (depending on the exchange rate). So for your 8 week stay it works out at US$640 – US$760. We’re not sure how you calculated a cost of US$200.
Our only source of income is the US$249 registration fee which covers the work we do with partners mentioned above and supporting volunteers like yourself.
We encourage volunteers to stay in touch with us throughout their stay and raise any concerns they may have so we can help to resolve them wherever possible. We’re sorry you felt you weren’t able to work with us to clarify this situation whilst you were in Cameroon.
Thank you again for taking the time to leave a review. We are pleased that you enjoyed the program and we hope that you gained a lot from the experience.
The Team @ Love Volunteers