Application

To be able to apply for your Internship Placement please register(Login) on the homepage and Complete the application form as fully as possible. While it is useful for us to have your passport number and referee details they are not immediately crucial to start processing your application.

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• Volunteers must be at least 18 years old
• If you are below 18 a parental permission will be required for the placement
• Volunteers must cover their own travel costs to/from the project site
• Volunteers are responsible for passports / visas, etc.
• Volunteers with disabilities are asked to tell the office when they apply for a project
• Volunteers with a focus on children work require a motivation letter from every volunteer, who wants to participate

Placement is not guaranteed since most projects will not accept more than two citizens from the same country, reserving the remaining spaces for other nationalities in an effort to maintain intercultural diversity, which is a key feature of the projects. We prefer that you give us several additional choices of projects that you are willing to accept. We will always try to place you in your first choice, but if that is not possible, we will try your second or third options if provided on your form. For this reason, you should never buy a plane ticket before being officially accepted to a project.

We will try to place you in any project which you have selected, in order of your preference, so please don't list something you don't really want!

Note that ARA updates the availability in the projects frequently, but we may only get a status report on a weekly or bi-weekly basis about how many places are left in a particular project. Therefore, projects we have listed as available in our Open Online Project Directory may have already been filled by the time a volunteer applies. That is one of the reasons why we encourage volunteers to consider alternative choices in case they are not placed in their first choice project.

Motivation!

We depend on your genuine desire to be part of a working group. The vast majority of our volunteers are committed to working for the common goals of the project. If you are only interested in tourism or a cheap vacation, please do not register for a project.

Deadlines

REGISTER AS SOON AS POSSIBLE for best selection. There is no specific deadline, but early registration ensures a much greater chance of placement in your preferred workcamp or Internship. The majority of placements for the summer months are made before mid-May, but we place volunteers year-round. Some projects fill very quickly.

Unfortunately, we can't tell you if a space is available in any particular project until we receive your form & fee and can actually request your placement. The enrollment situation in any particular project changes by the minute since volunteers are registering also from many other countries and organizations. Please don't call to ask if any camps or Internships are full, we will not know until we try to place you. If a project appears on our website, then it was still open on the day the database was uploaded.