Fundación Aldeas de Paz    Venezuela - Brazil

Required Minimum Donation

All Money Contributions are referred to as Donation since what you pay is generally 100% tax-deductible. We are a recognized and verifiable Charity and offer financial transparency by practicing a "Open Book Policy" whereby we publish our yearly Financial Reports since 2002. As a nonprofit charity we enjoy Tax Exemption Status in Venezuela.

Many volunteers who contribute to our charity work relinquish the use of funds that would otherwise benefit their own families. The money these people give to Aldeas de Paz mean forgone movies, dinners out, or other personal pleasures. Many people give extensively of their own time and talents to help our beneficiaries. Gifts of this kind often prove far more valuable than money. A struggling child, befriended and nurtured by a caring mentor, receives a gift whose value far exceeds what can be bestowed by money.

Aldeas de Paz works hard to keep operational costs to an absolute minimum and spends maximal 25 percent of your donation for Volunteer recruitment, accommodation, board and supervision and only 5 percent for administration. 70% of your donation benefits directly our young beneficiaries and their families. see Spending Breakdown

 We encourage you to "shop around" before you commit to our placement to ensure your complete satisfaction with the experience. Many people successfully fundraise. see Fundraising tips

Our minimum volunteer donations are set up so that the longer you stay, the lower your monetary donation becomes per week. We do this to encourage longer stays, recognizing the reality that longer stays lead to more significant volunteer work, more long lasting experiences for the volunteers, and more energy contributed in the form of donated time in place of donated money. The cost schedule clearly illustrates the decrease in the per week cost for the total amount of time you plan on staying.

All Donations are indicated in Euro € and are allocated to Fundación Aldeas de Paz. The schedules are valid for bookings before December 31, 2010. Please also read Terms & Conditions. For currency conversion visit http://www.xe.com

 

Required minimum Donation
Cooperative Living on Aldeas de Paz Grounds		Number of weeks	Host Family Chirikayen & Santa Elena
Total in €	per week		Total in €	per week
580	580	1	615	615
670	335	2	740	370
760	253	3	865	288
840	210	4	980	245
995	199	5	1.170	234
1.160	193	6	1.370	228
1.315	188	7	1.560	223
1.470	184	8	1.750	219
1.630	181	9	1.945	216
1.790	179	10	2.140	214
1.945	177	11	2.330	212
2.100	175	12	2.520	210
2.250	173	13	2.705	208
2.395	171	14	2.885	206
2.535	169	15	3.060	204
2.670	167	16	3.230	202
2.805	165	17	3.400	200
2.935	163	18	3.565	198
3.060	161	19	3.725	196
3.180	159	20	3.880	194
3.295	157	21	4.030	192
3.410	155	22	4.180	190
3.520	153	23	4.325	188
3.625	151	24	4.465	186
3.725	149	25	4.600	184
3.820	147	26	4.730	182
3.915	145	27	4.860	180
4.005	143	28	4.985	178
4.090	141	29	5.105	176
4.200	140	30	5.250	175
additional week: € 140			additional week: € 175

What's included:

• Volunteer or Intern placement in the program/s of your choice
• Accommodation & meals
• Financial support for operating costs and program expenses
• Placement introduction and hand-outs, supervision, regular briefings
• Conversational Spanish language opportunities
• Certificate and/or written reference or student credit on request
• Participation with excursions and opportunities for cultural exchange scheduled and organized by volunteers
• Full support from our local staff
• Santa Elena bus terminal pick-up 
• Aldeas de Paz T-shirt

What's not included:

• Airfare to Venezuela, national and local transport and related services
• Personal Expenses or pocket money, travel/medical insurance; costs, and any expenses incurred in preparing for the trip
• Any additional expenses encountered as a result of flight delays, cancellations or missed connections

Terms and Conditions

You send us the application form. Once you receive the written confirmation, your volunteer placement is being held. The written confirmation includes a financial schedule which sets out the details of the calculated volunteer minimum donation and the 50% deposit to fully secure your placement, due within two weeks of receipt of the financial schedule.
The remaining donation should be settled through one of four options:

• Paid at least four weeks before arrival at Aldeas de Paz onto our bank account

• Paid on arrival at Aldeas de Paz in Santa Elena in cash Euro or Dollar

• Paid directly together with the initial booking deposit onto our bank account

• Through monthly installments previous to your arrival

If you wish to make alterations to your placement, accommodation or arrival/departure date, we will endeavor to make the changes, provided we receive your request in writing before the placement start date. In the event of cancellation, Aldeas de Paz will retain the entirety of the calculated volunteer donation or part of it depending on the number of days before the placement start date that you cancel.

• Cancellation until 90 days before start date: Aldeas de Paz retains 50% of the total calculated volunteer donation

• Cancellation 90 days to 60 days before start date: Aldeas de Paz retains 75% of the total calculated volunteer donation

• Cancellation 60 days & under before start date or cancellation during placement: Aldeas de Paz retains the total calculated volunteer donation

(The reason for limited refund: We need to maintain a good working relationship with our program coordinators, beneficiaries and hosts. We will try to find a suitable replacement volunteer to carry out your cancelled placement, and the less time left before the placement is due to start, the more expense and difficulty we will have in recruiting this person. Alternatively we may decide to make a financial or other contribution to the relevant program or host family or contract a paid replacement professional to ensure the projected work will be done and the programs will not suffer).
 

Fundación Aldeas de Paz
Lomas de Piedra Canaima via Sampai, Santa Elena de Uairén,
La Gran Sabana, Estado Bolívar, Venezuela
Phone: 0058 - 289 - 4160718  Email: info@aldeasdepaz.org
We are a registered charity: RIF J-30872287-1 (Vz)    
 

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Fundación Aldeas de Paz
 

last update: 05/08/2010