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Quora vs Facebook content creator earnings comparison – woman and man facing each other with laptops, question mark and euro symbol between them.

Quora or Facebook: who pays creators better for content?

Young participants at sunset with yurts and cabins at Manas Garden ecovillage, Hungary, during the Ecovillage Gathering (GEN Europe Gathering 2025).

The 30th Gathering of GEN Ecovillages took place in Hungary

A convoy of boats from the Sumud Flotilla sails across the Mediterranean at sunset, with activists waving Palestinian flags and banners reading “Freedom” and “Solidarity.”

How to Join the Sumud Flotilla, the Civil Mission to Gaza

Volunteers in orange life vests unload aid boxes and tarps from a small blue inflatable boat onto a Mediterranean beach, with a coastal city in the background.

Gaza, 2025: what is happening and how we can help 🛟💪🏽

Young digital nomad using a laptop to browse Facebook groups, with a large backpack and rolled sleeping pad beside her in a neutral wooden room.

The best Facebook groups (2025–2026) for slow & alternative travelers

Group photo with text “ESC volunteer vacancies” for a Mediterranean forest project in Órgiva, Granada; apply by Sept 22.

Plant life, learn ecology: 12 fully funded ESC places in Spain 🌿

Poster recruiting experienced TNR volunteers for Kos, Greece: photos show humane traps, carriers, and volunteers handling cats. Text notes requirements (experience with traps/nets, patience, team spirit) and explains the work—catch, neuter, and return community cats.

GASAH (Kos, Greece) – experienced TNR volunteers needed in September

Young traveler on a sunny city balcony, reading with a mug in hand; a backpack covered in travel patches rests beside them, binoculars on the table, skyline and park beyond – a calm staycation moment.

Staycation explained: a low-cost, low-impact holiday

A chained elephant in a dusty tourist area being photographed by tourists while a woman with a backpack observes silently, raising awareness about animal exploitation in tourism.

Animals are not attractions: a voluntourist’s perspective 🦁🐘🐪

Stone entrance of Ta Som temple, featuring a face-tower in the Angkor archaeological park, Cambodia

Urgent travel advisory: Thailand–Cambodia border conflict 🛑

UNESCO World Heritage Volunteers smiling and standing together with backs to the camera, wearing WHV t-shirts, looking at the Taj Mahal in India during a heritage conservation project.

Join the UNESCO volunteer projects 2025 – Help protect World Heritage sites 🌍

Two young travelers relaxing on a bed in a minimalist room with large backpacks on the floor, symbolizing budget travel and free stay websites abroad.

How to find free accommodations abroad in 2025 – 2026🌍

Illustrated comparison header showing PolarSteps vs FindPenguins with map icons, penguin footprints, a globe, and a camera, representing two popular travel diary apps.

PolarSteps vs FindPenguins: which app to choose to document your voluntourism journey 🐧🧭❓

Tourists riding and bathing elephants at a tourist attraction posing as a sanctuary, with elephants in water and handlers nearby in an unnatural setting.

How to spot a real animal sanctuary (and avoid scams disguised as rescue)

The Seck family smiling in front of their restored land in Senegal

From desert to forest: the inspiring transformation of the Seck family’s land

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Support local communities in need while traveling

Travel and volunteer in a group with other likeminded volunteers

Receive volunteers for your project by offering hospitality, cultural exchange & meaningful opportunities

Travel, help the locals, share the lifestyle, receive food & accommodation in exchange