For more information, please review our Alternative Breaks information. The costs include room and board, travel at the project site, recreational, cultural, and educational activities, project materials, Amizade staff, and administrative fees. Amizade alumni, families of four or more, and volunteers who sign up for more than one program will receive a discount. Volunteers are responsible for their own travel to the program site. We are partnered with a travel agent, who can help with your travel arrangements.
Volunteers usually stay as a group in dorms, tents, or rustic cabins.
Accommodations will depend on the program location and project. We cannot accept volunteers less than 12 years of age. Here, pink and gray dolphins play under the mango trees as exotic birds fly overhead. Samba and Boi Bumba music fill the air and the hearts of the people. E ven though Santar m is a tropical paradise, the majority of the people live in abject poverty.