The Benefits for Your Project

Sri Lankan school childrenThe projects we work with gain many valuable benefits from working with us, including:

A secure long-term relationship

Our relationship with the projects we work with isn’t restricted to the time you’re there. It exists before you arrive and will continue once you’ve left. Apart from the practical benefits, this assures people in need that we’re committed to providing help in the long term, rather than as a one-off ‘quick fix’.

Guaranteed volunteers

The scale of our operation means that not only can we guarantee people who travel with us somewhere to work, but we can also guarantee projects willing people to work with them. We do the recruiting for them so they can put their precious resources to better use. We ensure that these projects have a steady flow of willing hands, without having to spend their time and money recruiting volunteers.

Saving time, saving money

The projects we work with do not have to worry about finding and recruiting willing volunteers (that's our job). This means that they can use the time and money they've saved to work towards the primary aims and objectives of the project.

Read what our projects have to say about i-to-i here.

A word from the experts…

"Programs benefit the host country’s economy, promote positive values, enrich lives, and serve the important purpose of strengthening the people-to-people ties that have proven such a powerful instrument of international mutual understanding. Project organisations have invested the necessary time, patience, and resources needed to build trust and ensure safe and appropriate projects."

Le Ann Joy Adam, Overseas Resource Coordinator at Stanford University.