Volunteer work in Cuba

OP...thats the F...Ck..G stupidest post I have read here.....AA....K

Thanks for posting your first-hand experience, #9. It's the sort of thing which anybody can do as a volunteer--but which only a thoughtful person would think of. Very impressive.

Zedmans: if you want to see the stupidest post ever on this branch, read #10, posted by you.

Yucca123: Are you brain-dead, or what? Each time you have posted that volunteering in Cuba will "cost," I have explained to you that it costs to volunteer ANYWHERE. That cost can be quite small, as in the case of Poster #9, who paid someone to help shovel sand out of the highway. Or it can cost the several thousand dollars charged by agencies who organize activities for international volunteers, and must provide a whole host of services for them, ranging from transportation to translation to looking after their medical needs. I promise you, the organization involved in making it possible for people to have the experience of contributing to a country in which they are not native and have no contacts is a very complicated business, and carries with it a ton of responsibility. In addition to the people who actually work (often as volunteers) to make a volunteer experience possible, there are commercial agencies which charge upwards of US$1000 simply to FIND a place where a person from one country can volunteer in some other country. The other things which you can't seem to grasp is: (a) for some people, the experience of doing what the poster proposes--contributing something to a poor country--is far more interesting than a week at a stupid Club Med; and (b) anyone who volunteers in Cuba--or anywhere else--is not doing it for the Revolution. They are doing it for themselves, because it is, almost always, a worthwhile experience.

# 11 tipitoes...your info here is apreciated......buzz off on me...K.....I have never said anything to YOU.......

And #11.....your replies are as great as they are, are quite tiresome...just reading them bores the hell out of me.........dont be confritative....with ME...

hey folks..thanks to those of you who made constructive, intelligent replies...to those of you like Ucca, Rockon, Richard Bees and zedmans...take your sarcastic, bitter comments somewhere else and leave this website to people who want to make the world a better place to live!

My comment was not meant as sarcasm, you misguided soul, it was a very serious one. Of all the places in the world (like Africa) where you can make a serious impact on lives,why Cuba? Do you have romantic tropical visions?

Let us know how hard the Cubans were laughing, at you.

Huh! Rockon, I should have known, you're a brainwashed American!!!!! In that case, I would expect you to this I am a misguided soul! Well the Cubans are laughing at you right now as they drill for oil!
Go back to work for the Republicans, speaking of misguided souls!

John,

Please do not generalise!

I didn't make a "sarcastic, bitter comment...." I just do not believe it makes any sense for someone from Canada to donate two weeks to working on the land......... if you want to make a contribution it's much better you donate two weeks salary and buy much-needed medicines which you then either take to Cuba or give to 'Pastors for Peace'

Listen, Cubans are great at drinking and lounging, another reason a guy like you should consider volunteering in Africa rather than Cuba.

If you are going to volunteer to take few of them out for drinking and lounging while you're there, I'm sure they'll be grateful and never forget you, until the next tourist/volunteer comes along.

Maybe your noble gesture at volunteering should begin at home, in your own backyard (I know, it's not an exotic tropical location) before you decide to help out the rest of the world.

Easy there....

I understand the whole wonderful volunteering concept. In three weeks, I too am volunteering. Im traveling to Spain (Palma de Majorca) where I am volunteering at the beach with a great big umbrella drink. Them I'm off to Paris where I am volunteering to walk around and see the sights not to mention shopping. Them I'll volunteer to go back to the USA for two days then home to the DR.

Is that enough "volunteering for you guys.