The world's leading community for volunteering, working and cultural exchange

Workaway.info is a site set up to promote fair exchange, volunteering and work opportunities between budget travellers, language learners or culture seekers who can stay with families, individuals or organizations that are looking for help with a range of varied and interesting activities.

Our philosophy is simple:

A few hours honest help per day in exchange for food and accommodation and an opportunity to learn about the local lifestyle and community, with friendly hosts in varying situations and surroundings. We also promote paid work positions for hosts looking for extra help with their business.

Our aims are:

• To promote cultural understanding between different peoples and lands throughout the world.
• To enable people travelling on a limited budget to fully appreciate living and working in a foreign environment.
• To promote the exchange between people from different nationalities, and give a chance for volunteers to contribute to a cause.
• To enable language learners to experience different countries and immerse themselves in their target language whilst living abroad.
• To give opportunity to projects around the world to receive support from skilled volunteers and have a real and immediate impact on their projects
• To enable travellers to find paid positions to help them to continue to fund their travels

How Workaway.info works:

Workaway.info holds a database of families, individuals or organisations in an extensive range of different countries who have registered with us and are looking for volunteer help in a huge range of different fields. From painting to planting, building to babysitting and shopping to shearing, Workaway.info aims to introduce working travellers and language learners to like minded hosts, without having to pay expensive agency fees. Our hosts are based in many different countries with more and more signing up every day. So whether you are planning that big trip to Australia, thinking of taking a year to do Europe or want to immerse yourself in South American culture, Workaway is the answer for low cost travel!