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Coronavirus: How to help others when you can’t leave home

March 30, 2020 by Gretta Schifano 4 Comments

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The most important thing for all of us to do now to stop the spread of coronavirus is to stay at home. Here’s the official advice from the NHS explaining that in detail. COVID-19 testing I’ve actually been at home and keeping away from people as much as possible since the start of March, when […]

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Categories: Life in General
Tags: COVID-19, volunteering

How to take part in a beach clean up

February 20, 2019 by Gretta Schifano 1 Comment

Winterton beach, Norfolk. Copyright Gretta Schifano

Have you ever taken part in a beach clean? It’s a really easy way to make a positive impact on the world. Every single piece of litter which you collect from the beach makes a difference – because it’s one less harmful thing to be eaten by sea creatures and to pollute the environment. You […]

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Categories: Coast, UK
Tags: #2minutebeachclean, Great British Beach Clean

10 easy ways to use less plastic and help save the world

March 16, 2018 by Gretta Schifano 1 Comment

Plastic waste in sea. Image from Pixabay.

Plastic is an endlessly versatile and useful product. It’s found all over the place, from supermarket carrier bags and food packaging to contact lenses and clothing. But the cost of our dependence on plastic is huge. Millions of tons of plastic waste end up in our seas every year, and it can be fatal to […]

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Categories: Travel advice
Tags: recycling

10 reasons why orphanage voluntourism must stop

May 12, 2016 by Gretta Schifano 25 Comments

I’ve written about orphanage voluntourism before – in my post Orphanage voluntourism holidays. As an adoptive mother, I’m passionate about this subject, as anyone who’s ever  talked to me about volunteering abroad will know. I’m writing about it again, because The Better Volunteering Better Care Network have asked me to support their #StopOrphanTrips campaign to raise […]

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Categories: Travel advice
Tags: orphanage, orphanage tourism

Family volunteering in Costa Rica

October 2, 2015 by Lorenza Bacino 24 Comments

Monkey at Proyecto Asis, Costa Rica. Copyright Max Rolt Bacino

This is a guest post by Anglo-Italian journalist Lorenza Bacino. In August Lorenza, her husband and their son, aged 12, and daughter, aged 9, went to Costa Rica in Central America for their family holiday and it sounds like they had a brilliant time. Lorenza is writing a series of articles for Mums do travel about what they got up to and this is […]

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Tags: animal rescue centre, family volunteering, wildlife rescue centre

Family volunteering holidays

November 15, 2013 by Gretta Schifano 8 Comments

Beach cleaning by kayak, NT Stackpole, Wales. Copyright Gretta Schifano.

Volunteering holidays are increasingly popular with everyone from gap year students to retired people but family volunteering holidays can also be a great option. The best volunteering trips work to support the local community as well as the volunteers. If you’re planning a volunteering trip it’s important to think carefully about the work you’re going to […]

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Tags: Family volunteering holidays, family working holidays, orphanage tourism

Orphanage voluntourism holidays

July 29, 2013 by Gretta Schifano 2 Comments

Kids at Standen

Would you like a stranger to pay to spend time with your child? A stranger, recently arrived from another country, who doesn’t speak your language, who has no child-related qualifications or experience and who may not have undergone adequate CRB checks? What if something had happened to you and your child was in residential care? […]

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Tags: family volunteering, orphanage tourism

National Trust family working holidays

November 19, 2012 by Gretta Schifano 2 Comments

clearing woodland on a national trust working holiday at stackpole

My husband had a wonderful time yesterday afternoon outside clearing up leaves and attacking shrubs with the hedge trimmer. At Easter we were guests on a National Trust family working holiday to Stackpole in Pembrokeshire which I wrote about for The Independent. The youngest loved the day our group spent chopping down shrubs in the woods […]

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Categories: Elsewhere, Wales
Tags: gardening with kids, kids, National Trust, National Trust working holidays for families, Pembrokeshire, Stackpole, travel, volunteering, Wales

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