Mission Statement

Volunteer Latin America’s mission is to help protect Latin America’s flora and fauna, its biodiversity, and to offer the most cost effective way to become an environmental or humanitarian volunteer in Central or South America

Our Objectives

To endorse and advance the conservation of wild habitats and their flora and fauna

To connect individuals and groups with affordable environmental and humanitarian volunteer work opportunities.

To provide a diverse and regularly updated range of environmental and humanitarian projects

To increase the number of people who can afford to become volunteers

To promote locally run organisations and grassroots projects

To encourage people to consider a career in conservation, or at a minimum, take a keen interest in environmental issues

To encourage people to meet new people, and accumulate life and career enhancing experiences and skills.

To ensure that volunteering through Volunteer Latin America is a rewarding and productive experience

To ensure that we treat our customers in a honest and cooperative manner

To ensure our ethical policies and concerns for the environment remain an integral part of our organisation

Our Ethical Policy

This is the Ethical Policy of Volunteer Latin America. We operate according to ethical and sustainable principles and have been screened by the Ethical Junction Network. We operate in ways to help fight pollution and preserve our natural resources. This includes the use a laptop rather than a desktop PC to save energy and this (our laptop) complies with the advanced Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ENERGY STAR requirements.

We take the threat of climate change seriously and our website has been carbon neutral since 2003 following the purchase of a small parcel of tropical forest in Ecuador. To ensure our website remains at the top of the 'environmentally friendly' league we have also offset 5 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions as part of Climate Care's (pdf 449K) CO2 reduction project.

	We are carbon neutral
	We run a low energy office
	We use no paper or other office products
	We use a wind powered web hosting company
	We aim to be as environmentally friendly as possible
	We aim to treat our customers honestly and competently
	We use the only bank in the UK which has an ethical policy
	We support a large number of organisations in Latin America
	We use our proceeds to fund our own environmental initiatives