Project Costs
The cost for a 2-week placement is £1095 for all environmental community development projects and £1305 for all marine conservation projects. For medical projects, a 3-week placement costs £1720.
Please note these are the minimum available durations for each project type, to request prices for longer durations, please email aaron@workingabroad.com
The above costs include all accommodation and three meals each day, airport pickup and drop off and boat transfers to and from Malé to Naifaru, weekly excursions to nearby islands for picnics and snorkeling (1 per week each Saturday), access to a 24/7 support hotline, organisation of a visa on your behalf if required (If you are coming as a medical volunteer or coming for over 30 days you will need to provide colour scans of certain documents to us upon confirmation of your booking), placement and support from our partner organisation in the Maldives and WorkingAbroad Projects. What is not included is your flights and travel to and from the Maldives, hotel stays in Male if required (approx $50 per night), personal expenses, police check (if required) and your own health and travel insurance.
Volunteers can also participate in a range of pre-arranged activities during their time off, including swimming and snorkeling, fishing, island exploration and surfing and diving trips. These activities may have an additional cost.
Payment Terms
To secure your volunteer placement in the Maldives, please complete and submit the online application form with your application payment of £195. If for some reason, your application is not accepted, we will reimburse this payment fully. However, for those who are accepted, you will be required to pay the final balance 2 months before arrival. Once we have confirmed your place, you will receive an information package on the programme, details on your specific project/position, information on the island, suggested items to bring, how to travel there etc.
Project Dates
Please note that some projects have limited availability during local public and religious holidays and other events, and during certain periods due to the weather. Please see the further information pages in the ‘Project Details’ tab for availability for each specific project.
The dates below are listed just as a guide. You can join this project for 2 weeks or longer all year round, starting on any Thursday. The weekends in the Maldives are Friday and Saturday, making Sunday the first working day of the week. There is boat transportation from the Capital (Malé) to Naifaru island on Thursdays around 9 AM. So we recommend that all volunteers fly into Malé on Wednesday beforehand, spend a night in a hotel (where we can arrange a discount booking for volunteers) and then travel to Naifaru on Thursday morning. Friday will be a day off where you are introduced to the island and where you will have an arrival briefing and on Saturday, you will have an excursion to a nearby uninhabited island and your first working day will be Sunday.
| Start | End | Availability |
|---|---|---|
| September 19th 2019 | October 3rd 2019 | |
| October 3rd 2019 | October 17th 2019 | |
| October 17th 2019 | October 31st 2019 | |
| October 31st 2019 | November 14th 2019 | |
| November 14th 2019 | November 28th 2019 | |
| November 28th 2019 | December 12th 2019 | |
| December 12th 2019 | December 26th 2019 | |
| December 26th 2019 | January 9th 2020 | |
| January 9th 2020 | January 23rd 2020 | |
| January 23rd 2020 | February 6th 2020 | |
| February 6th 2020 | February 20th 2020 | |
| February 20th 2020 | March 5th 2020 | |
| March 5th 2020 | March 19th 2020 | |
| March 19th 2020 | April 2nd 2020 | |
| April 2nd 2020 | April 16th 2020 | |
| April 16th 2020 | April 30th 2020 | |
| April 30th 2020 | May 14th 2020 | |
| May 14th 2020 | May 28th 2020 | |
| May 28th 2020 | June 11th 2020 | |
| June 11th 2020 | June 25th 2020 | |
| June 25th 2020 | July 9th 2020 | |
| July 9th 2020 | July 23rd 2020 | |
| July 23rd 2020 | August 6th 2020 | |
| August 6th 2020 | August 20th 2020 | |
| August 20th 2020 | September 3rd 2020 | |
| September 3rd 2020 | September 17th 2020 | |
| September 17th 2020 | October 1st 2020 | |
| October 1st 2020 | October 15th 2020 | |
| October 15th 2020 | October 29th 2020 | |
| October 29th 2020 | November 12th 2020 | |
| November 12th 2020 | November 26th 2020 | |
| November 26th 2020 | December 10th 2020 | |
| December 10th 2020 | December 24th 2020 | |
| December 24th 2020 | January 7th 2021 |
