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Volunteer News from around the world. Here we feature news about interesting volunteering projects, alternative travel initiatives, and slow lifestyles. Feel free to write your own article. Ask us how.

This section can include articles about:

  • Alternative living and long-term travel
  • Hitchhiking
  • Volunteering and nomadic stories
  • Project reviews
  • Interviews

And more. If you want to write an article for our magazine, send us an email. In the blog section, you can also share your volunteer or travel project, get featured for an interview, or publish a job announcement.


Volunteer news 🌐


Need volunteers? Add your listing ✍ðŸŧ

Stonehenge at sunrise on Salisbury Plain, with the low sun aligned through the stone circle, showing the link between Stonehenge and the solstice sky in England.

Ecovillages winter solstice December 2025: where people gather to welcome the light 🌀🌅

Slow travel news image of a backpacker on a mountain trail holding a small snail in her hand.

Slow travel news December 2025 | night trains, sleeper buses and volunteering signals 🚞

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Free hospitality platforms: TrustRoots and Couchers.org ask the community for support

Wall mounted Christmas tree made from recycled driftwood and reclaimed wood, decorated with handmade paper ornaments and warm yellow fairy lights on a white plaster wall.

Recycled wood Christmas tree on the wall: a DIY idea for eco volunteers 🎄🎁

Sandy Hazelip and Ellie Hamby, the TikTok traveling grannies, smiling together during their slow travel journey around the world

TikTok traveling grannies: around the world at 80

Christmas gifts for slow travellers: three international volunteers with backpacks standing in front of Christmas presents.

Christmas gifts for slow travellers and international volunteers

Christmas volunteers decorating an outdoor community space and preparing hot drinks and blankets on a winter day, diverse group of young people in “VOLUNTEER” shirts getting ready for a festive charity event.

Christmas volunteer opportunities: where and how to help during the holidays ðŸ§‘ðŸ―â€ðŸŽ„

Backpacker on a mountain trail showing the Strava app on her phone, using GPS maps to plan a slow travel hike

Strava, the social app for athletes that also loves slow travellers

young travelers planning a trip on a cozy couch, pointing at a world map, representing the couch surfing community on Couchers

Couchers news: the free rival of Couchsurfing 🛋ïļ

Watercolor illustration of Jane Goodall sitting with a chimpanzee in Gombe, symbolizing her pioneering work in primatology and wildlife conservation.

Jane Goodall (1934–2025): a legacy of listening and action

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 ðŸ›ŸðŸ’ŠðŸ―

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

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