Glad it was helpful!

I’m dying 🤣

So sweet! Glad you enjoyed it. 😃

Congratulations! That’s super exciting! Lots of adventures ahead for you.

Hey @tiantian7725 your Plan Sounds greate! I wanna do something quiet simular, also as a Single woman. What are you up to? Do you have a Tour-plan yet?

Hey!!!I am on the road now hahh, surfing in Bali right now and connecting with digital nomads, it's been amazing!!!Wish i have done it earlier!!@@evafuhrmann3211

Nice! Yea doing a work exchange in South America has the bonus that it costs very little money to travel versus many other parts of the world so many people come here so they can travel for longer.

How exciting! You’re already on the most rewarding path by having intention. Many blessings on preparing for your upcoming adventures!

@@_theplantkiller thank you! I'm guessing you'd recommend Bolivia as a possible destination?!

@@smegheadish let’s just say that I thought I’d spend the least amount of time in this country of all the South American countries and it’s now my home. So yes!

@@_theplantkiller I see :) I have in my mind that I want to visit Peru, Argentina, and Chile.. And I've recently watched a series of videos from some travel vloggers I follow about thier adventures in Ecuador.. what a gorgeous looking country! I feel like there's no wrong choices.. just be open to what "speaks" to you..

How exciting!

Congratulations!

I’m 33 and in the same boat. Best of luck to you ❤

Amazing!

Thank you so much for the kind reply to the video. You’re welcome to come learn permaculture with us if you’re able to come to Bolivia!

@@_theplantkiller To be honest, I wasn't expecting that :)) As of now, coming to Bolivia was not in my plans but I appreciate your offer. I'm definitely going to consider the option, if I had a chance I'd like to see your garden and learn from your experience. Thanks for your kind offer. Best wishes!!!

@@msinaanc Think about it and get back to me if it calls to you 😁 permacultureretreatcenter@gmail.com

She's totally a chill girl...love it. And super pretty too!

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It might be difficult to understand if you haven’t been a host before. It gets expensive to feed and host people even in a cheaper country when you don’t have another side gig of charging people or making strong income. I mean, I’ve heard of some hosts over working and under feeding their “volunteers,” but just because they charge them definitely doesn’t mean they are exploiting them. Volunteers break items/tools weekly for us. If we didn’t offer tours and courses, we would have to go back to charging a little bit for food each week to the volunteers. Otherwise we’d be broke and starving ourselves. And if places charge $5-$10 a night and feed the volunteers well and provide a well-managed work environment where they have really invested time and money to better their homestead/hostel experience, then that’s a great deal.

@@_theplantkillerit just needs to be communicated and agreed upon beforehand, and not the hosts not saying anything until the volunteers arrive

@@chonntonwonton104 💯 which is why I emphasize in this video being very clear about the exchange before committing on both ends.

I used to be a militant vegan! 😄

Yea, it’s an incredible growing opportunity for sure. The only thing lacking in your advice is to genuinely want to be a help. If it’s all about you then it’s very obvious to hosts that you have a take take take mentality. We experience this a lot with our volunteers. There’s an entitlement from them that they want to learn and travel for as long as possible spending as little money as possible, therefore often willing to break things and not replace them, receive free services and treatments, etc and end up being a cost and burden. When coming in humbly to a place that you genuinely find interest in but also willing to do hard work and offer up a good energy exchange, the graciousness and effort from the hosts to teach and give good learning opportunities naturally flows.

I used Cigna and paid a lot bc I wanted full coverage after having experienced a serious medical accident 8 years ago. But there’s many short term cheap travel health insurances out there. You just need to do some digging.

You’ll need money for the transportation but after that you can stay at places in exchange for accommodation and meals.

Nice. You must be an awesome volunteer then! I’ve been living in Bolivia for two years now and have a small permaculture farm. Let me know if you end up here!

@@_theplantkiller aww that’s amazing ❤️

Hi, i have plans to travel to Latina and Central America but i have difficulties having a volunteer program. I really want to travel the world and give a helping to local communities. please is there anyway you can assist me?

@@NjukangRoosevelt there are million positions i Latin America, how come you have trouble finding one

@@NjukangRooseveltyeah Can you specify on that please

There’s no visa requirements to join Worldpackers.

They provide an exchange-work for food and a bed. And if you need a letter for travel reasons they can give that to you as well.

Thank you so much.

Im sure Worldpackers has lots of hosts listed in Japan! Should def check it out.

Yep. This is very true. That’s why I specifically listed that the $2500 included 7 flights, food outside of the exchange, and touristy tours that I did. Obviously traveling by foot can save a lot more money. I’ve met people who survived off of $1k easily in 6 months in South America even with crossing borders. But that included a lot of camping too.

Absolutely. We are in personal contact with their “Head of Growth” and they are now at 60% of volunteers from Europe where it used to be much lower and like you said more for the South American travel. WorkAway has been around longer so they have more hosts to choose from but Worldpackers still has many and if quality, and they treat their users so much better than WorkAway.

@@_theplantkiller thanks for the quick answer

Hmm. Good question. You’d have to reach out to the hosts to ask, but I’ve seen just 2 hours a day of work 5 days a week but only 1 meal a day was included with lodging.

I believe no. With Worldpackers, you use your skills and experience for an exchange.

I saved money before I went and just did exchanges to make my money last longer. In the video, I say how much I spent in 6.5 months. Less than $3k. But the amount of money you need completely depends on which countries you want to travel to and through and from where. You have to do some research on flights, public transportation, hostels, tours and incorporate some meals in between traveling from one volunteer place to another.

There’s many cheap travel health insurance companies out there. I paid a lot for mine because I’ve gotten in a crazy accident before and wanted to be totally covered. Also if you have credit cards check to see if they cover your trips. I had a Chase Reserve that cover up to $10k I think but that was in belongings.

@@_theplantkiller great thanks so much for the info!

Some hosts receive last minute volunteers. So it just depends on the host. For me, I tried to at least a month in advance, but I planned ahead more than most.

@@_theplantkiller Okay great to hear! That would be my plan too. Just wasn't sure if there was a such a thing as /too/ far in advance lol. Also congratulations on welcoming a little one! :-)

Not typically. The volunteers are usually responsible for their own transport to the host.

You can always do Worldpackers in your own country too! Depending where you’re from, the cost of receiving a passport or paying border costs in other countries varies.

Hey cuz. $1800 for my 250cc

@@_theplantkiller dang cheap!

Dang! Yea I bought one way flights each time and it was during 2020 and 2021 when flights were decent prices.

Worldpackers is great for this. Can you not make a profile with them?

@@_theplantkiller I can but I really having difficulties getting through. Let me try again. I think my debit card has a problem but let me try again

How much does it cost?

I don’t know myself but there’s definitely a lot of opportunities on volunteer exchange websites like WP.

Hi! What an awesome idea. There’s a link that you can click in the description of this video directly to sign up for WorldPackers. 👍🤩

@@_theplantkiller woaa thank u so much💗 i really want to join :)

@@chimonnac2975 Youll have so much fun! What an awesome experience to do fresh out of high school. Go for it!

@@_theplantkiller thank u💗 im so excited!!!!!🤧 i'll join later, now i'll prepare myself first :)

@@chimonnac2975 nice. And remember that you can get $10 off the annual membership when you use our link in the description. Best of luck on your journey ahead!

The volunteers are getting paid by food and accommodation and to stay at locations that have been built and established through years of hard work, vision, sacrifice, and passion by the owners. I don’t see it as using “labor for profit” in an unfair way. Though some hosts can abuse and take advantage, it’s not the case of most and that’s what volunteers need to realize. You aren’t working “for free.” There is a valuable exchange. And all the work will somehow move towards making the hosts a profit in some way. Hopefully. We hope to go further from having unpaid volunteers with our program. We prefer volunteers who have paid to take our permaculture course, and then stay extra time to practice what they’ve learned and get a feel for the community. Though it’s very difficult to find dependable, local workers around here, we hope to find some that we can pay and provide jobs for during our course weeks. But, this idea sounds a lot easier than it actually is. Most campesinos are very busy with their own families, homes, projects, and farms. So it will take time to find a good worker. We like the balance between hiring locally and having tourists visit to learn and contribute spending towards our small town.

Although I am just exploring these sites, I'm not sure that having 1 or 3 people working for someone...let's say, at a local farm in Portugal is "denying" people the right to work..The host advertises for specific skill sets, such as "farming, masonry, carpentry, etc." and wishes to save $ whilst interacting with people from other cultures... It's really a quid-pro-quo. NOW...if we want to talk about the 7,000,000 illegals streaming across the U.S. border, taking up space, setting up homeless encampment, taking jobs, and living off MY tax dollars...causing me to review moving out of MY home country? I'll be happy to agree with you there!!😉

people become these weird monsters as soon as the subject of "immigration" pops in

for example, on the other side of the coin, there's this situation now where "rich and cultured" UK citizens cannot fulfill the visa requirements to go work in Germany tech companies, not because of lack of savings or lack of qualifications, purely for post-Brexit EU ego fights bureaucracy... it is not only affecting the poor, but also the "rich"

and at the end, everyone loses with the restrictions... because they don't make the problems go away

If you watch the video, I say that I reached out to them for the discount. Whether they gave me the discount for viewers or not I was making the video. Especially because I strongly dislike their competition. I do that now for brands that I believe in and enjoy.