Volunteer in Bali with IVI from $410 - Affordable, Safe, & Impactful

I liked the project. We learned the children a lot about nutrition and healthcare. The kids are very sweet. Everything was good.

I volunteered in Indonesia. I did their turtle conservation project in Nusa Penida. I loved how friendly the people were who also volunteered. Comments on local team, food, and accommodation, everything was very neat. The rooms were good, the food was fine, and the local team was really kind.

We collected waste on the streets, cared for the baby turtles (fed them, cleaned them, cleaned their tank), and on my last day, I was participating in letting them free :)

Comments on local team, food, and accommodation, the local team was sooo nice, helpful, and very openhearted! And even played live music for us daily, and organized a bonfire! Loved it!

The trip was good. Meet people and the turtles are so cute. Nusa Penida it's a beautiful island. And volunteering was a really great experience because you know you're helping and giving time to make a difference. The accommodations are really nice and also the food lot of vegetarian food. Maybe having more local food would be better I think.

The local team is great :)

Volunteering in Bali, Indonesia has been a WONDERFUL and BEAUTIFUL experience. I had the opportunity to volunteer for 3 weeks to a sixth grade group and I learned much more than I imagined. Bali and its people stay in my heart forever.

The whole team and people are WONDERFUL people and very professional, they always made me feel at home. My room and spaces always clean and everything very green and beautiful. The food was perfect for me, a lot of fruits and veggies. THANK YOU for so much.

The trip was incredible!! I learned so much about myself and was able to do so much more than I anticipated I could. I enjoyed meeting people from other countries and forming friendships. I honestly could have stayed longer !!!

The food was amazing, I really enjoyed the food, the meal times for lunch and dinner were a bit too early but otherwise exceptional. Accommodation was fine, I didn't expect anything great, so it was exactly as expected.

Personally, I really enjoyed the volunteer work. The coordinators at the camp were all friendly. I was able to learn a lot about turtles during this time and I also had a lot of fun working with them. It was also nice to go beyond my own limits (for me it was snorkeling with the manta rays at Manta Point). I was very scared as it was the second time I had snorkeled in my life (the first time was a week earlier at the Gili Islands). In hindsight, however, I am very glad I did it and would love to do it again. I got to know people from all over the world, even though most of them also came from Germany.

I spent the weekends on Gili Island and in Ubud and was able to take a lot with me.
Culturally, I learned a lot of new things, but I was also able to develop a lot personally on this trip.

The coordinators were all very friendly and helpful at all times. The food was very varied and diverse. There was something for everyone (including vegetarian and vegan).
There is also a small, reasonably priced kiosk directly between the old and new houses which is always open until 9 in the evening. I was in the new house. We had a small pool, which was great for cooling off, as well as some seating and an area for sunbathing.

In the six-person room I was in, there were 3 of us for the first 2 weeks and just the two of us for the last week. So it was very relaxed. The rooms were also cleaned daily, which I found very positive. As it is still quite new, there were unfortunately no storage facilities or cupboards to lock up important things when you left the room. As there is only one key, it is unfortunately not possible to lock the rooms.

We got to experience all the work they have to do at this great project to increase the population of the sea turtles. They are also trying to better the environment of this small island and change the mind of the locals there to get rid of the big trash problem they have there. Everyday was something special. We helped cleaning the turtle tanks, cutting fish for the turtles, Cleaned the turtles, get to feed them, went to clean the beach and the street.
The only negative thing I can tell about our volunteering experience was that there were to much volunteers which didn't really care about the volunteering work. There were just there to make party and not for the truly good thing the team is trying to do there.
But that was the fault of the other volunteers.

This project is such a good thing and I really hope that future volunteers will take it more serious! Because only than there will be a real progress soon :)
I really hope for more volunteers with the same intentions than we had, because it is an awesome project!! The Team was soooo great!! They are people with such a good heart and they really want the world to be a better place for animals and humans. The Coordinators really have a passion for this project. Additional to that they are always here for everyone if there is any problem and they always trying to keep you in a good mood. The whole team there is amazing! Everything is clean and the accommodation is really comfy. The food is delicious and there is something for everyone.

Maybe not to much participants. Because we had way to much participant and like at least one half of them didn't really care for what they are trying to do.
And maybe longer working hours. Real volunteers would love to spend more time a day helping the people there so save the turtles and keeping Nusa Penida clean ;)