Volunteering Abroad | Our Approach to Volunteering

At MondoChallenge, we are committed to promoting ethical and responsible volunteering overseas and building a sustainable development model that can continue to provide the best possible service to our partners abroad as well as to our current, future and past career break volunteers.

The MondoChallenge programme was set up in 2001. The experience of building close partnerships with the local communities has been a hallmark of the way we have tried to develop our programme to build an organisation that is committed to international development.

The sustainability of local rural communities is a top priority for us, and for our career break volunteers, and we are proud of the fact that we are now working with over 100 individual local projects. This has a direct impact on well over 50000 people, many of them at the poorest level.

Our approach has always been "People first, money second". We are NOT a funding organisation, but we know from experience that the small amounts we do provide go much further than many international aid programmes! Although the volunteer’s financial contribution must inevitably go to covering the costs of setting up and delivering our voluntary programmes, the FutureSense Foundation, our sister charity fundraises and supports our development projects financially in the countries where our volunteers are working. This funding together with the work of career break volunteers has a huge impact on many schools, orphanages, and small businesses and ultimately the lives of many thousands of people that we works with.

Our volunteers share our vision and put it into practice daily.