MAKE AN IMPACT

Seattle Works is taking our volunteer programs on the road!

Spend a weekend in the mountains...a week in the Gulf Coast... or ten days in Peru. Our goal is to provide you with more in-depth volunteer opportunities that can accommodate a variety of schedules and budgets.

Overnight

Join Team Not so New to Seattle for one of Team Works’ favorite summer projects and help break down camp for the year. Camp Sealth is an 86 year old tradition on Vashon Island, serving 7,000 youth each year in summer camp programs, leadership and environmental education. With 70 buildings, miles of trails and 14 campsites, there is tons of work to do.

The team will carpool over Saturday evening, stay in camp cabins and work hard on Sunday. Join them!

Dates: August 23-24

Cost: Free

Sign-up today!

For a week

Join us in our efforts to help restore the Gulf Coast. It's been nearly three years since Hurricane Katrina and the amount of work left to do is staggering. Little by little, however, Seattle Works volunteers are making a real difference.

This fall's trip is scheduled for Oct 11-18 and is done in partnership with Katrina Corps. Seattle Works has booked all trip logistics and has a fabulous volunteer leader in place! The team will stay with Katrina Corps in dormitory style housing and work with various community organizations to rebuild homes, open schools, spruce up community centers and help re-landscape New Orleans. For more information, check out our blog to read excerpts from this summer's past team!

Trip Dates: October 11-18

Orientation: September 18, 6-7pm at the Seattle Works office

Cost: $595 (includes flights, transportation to and from the airport and project sites in New Orleans (not to and from the airport in Seattle), light breakfasts and lunches, a couple of dinners, simple dorm-style living accommodations, a Katrina Corps t-shirt, cultural immersion experiences and tour of the lower 9th war)

Sign-up: This trip is full; stay tuned for future dates!
 

With a passport

Seattle Works has teamed up with Crooked Trails to design our first-ever international service trip! We'll be taking a team to the Inca Village of Chinchero, located in the Andes Mountains of Peru, to help put the finishing touches on a new boarding school for orphans.

Volunteers will stay in the homes of Chinchero families, work during the day, and explore in the afternoons. The trip includes four travel days, five work days and the option of an additional two day excursion to Machu Picchu.

Dates: November 8-18

This trip is full, but we will have more international opportunities in 2009!

Questions? Contact Contact Jan Burrell.