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YCI depends on the fundraising efforts of its Canadian youth volunteers to achieve its aims and objectives. The Canadian International Development Agency and other donors cover more than half of our costs. But the remainder comes from Canadian volunteer fundraising. In order to ensure that the organization has sufficient funds to operate and to achieve its development objectives, we set a fundraising target for each project. For a project to take place, each volunteer in a team needs to hit the fundraising target to ensure that there are sufficient funds to resource the overseas project.
| Fundraising Targets: |
| 5-weeks: |
$3,000 + Airfare |
| 6-weeks: |
$3,400 + Airfare |
| 8-weeks: |
$3,700 + Airfare |
| 10-weeks: |
$3,900 + Airfare |
Got a question? Find an answer on our FAQ list.
Although this may seem daunting at first, we help you to fundraise in your home communities with staff support and with online fundraising tools - check out our Volunteer Fundraising tools here. It is amazing what you can raise when you tell people about the great work that you will be doing with youth in developing countries. And because YCI is a registered Canadian charity, all donors are eligible for a tax receipt.
What's Provided:
You will be provided with all in-country food, accommodation and transportation costs. Although don't forget, we often work in remote areas and live very simply. Sometimes we have very nice accommodations. It all depends on local circumstances and every project is different. YCI also supplies excess medical and evacuation insurance for each volunteer. And don't forget that we are a charitable organization and we are devoted to helping disadvantaged youth in developing countries - this means there is a lot of behind the scenes work going on to achieve development objectives that you may never see.
What's Not Provided:
- The airfare is not provided - many volunteers like to combine the program with further travel and therefore, purchase their own tickets.
- We also don't cover any medical preparations, personal equipment or specialty items that you might need.
- In addition, some countries require the purchase of an entry visa or work permit – we’ll help to organize this for you.
- You can, of course, fundraise to cover these costs, although we cannot issue tax receipts for them.
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Program Overview
