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Volunteer Vacation in the Cook Islands
Leave Your Mark on the World as a Volunteer!
Volunteer in the glorious isolation of the South Pacific Ocean! Lend your hand on a variety of community development projects alongside islanders.
Historically self-reliant, modern-day Cook Islanders' resiliency and natural resourcefulness are challenged by new realities: distant foreign markets, lack of natural resources, periodic natural disasters, and inadequate infrastructure. Work one-on-one with youth, seniors and families striving to improve their futures on education, social service and conservation projects.
You will have numerous opportunities to explore the islands during your free time. Recreational options include snorkeling, scuba diving, swimming, biking, attending island dance shows, hiking the interior highlands and circling the island by bus. A slow drive around Rarotonga takes less than an hour (about 21 miles in circumference). If you're feeling especially adventurous, you can do the cross-island trek or fly to one of the remote outer islands for a weekend excursion.
Leave Your Mark on the World!
With Global Volunteers, you experience the life of the South Pacific Islands through the lives of the Cook Islands people, while you develop friendships with the children, young people and adults who live, work and play there. Global Volunteers works on the island of Rarotonga to provide the best education possible for children and assist with social services and environmental projects.
Cook Islanders are well-known for their friendliness, openness and a gentle, easy-going spirit. The legendary generosity and charm of the Polynesian people quickly becomes obvious when you arrive in the Cook Islands. A warm welcome and sincere generosity is extended to visitors, instantly creating a feeling of total acceptance and tranquility. Some 90 percent of Cook Islanders are "pure" Polynesians -- people of the 'many' (poly) islands of the South Pacific, distantly related to the New Zealand Maori.
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