Volunteer travel is a great way of travelling while giving a hand to helpless people and side by side gaining practical knowledge and experience. And volunteering for saving an endangered species like sea turtles is even more virtuous. Because you are going to work for a part of our nature which, in other words means that you are going to save our nature that has been disrupted by us.
Before going on a volunteering work you need to do lots of homework and research. One of the major tasks is to take medical precautions. As you don’t know what kind of environmental condition you are going to be in and what will be the medical facility there that’s why it is really important that you take proper vaccination and medicine before going there.
Some vaccinations take 4 to 5 weeks to take effect. So you need to take preparations from at least 6 to 7 weeks before starting your voluntary travel. Visit the Center for Disease Control and Prevention website and you will get necessary information about what regions you are going for volunteering, what diseases commonly attack the dwellers of that region and what kind of vaccination you need to take.
According to the information you got from the website make an appointment with a doctor of your nearby hospital and consult with him. Take vaccinations prescribed by him. Ask him what kind of medicines you need to take with you while travelling. You might need to bring an extra supply depending on how long you would need to stay on travel.
You will have few options for bringing your physicians prescription on your travel and you need to choose which one suits you best depending on the available facilities in the region you are going to work.
• Bringing enough money: You should bring enough money with you to buy your necessary medicines depending on how long you are going to stay.
• Picking medicines during travelling: You might not always find a pharmacy close to your working area. And even if you find they might not carry the medicines your physician prescribed you. So you need to bring sufficient quantity of medicines with you.
• Have someone else send them to you: You can have someone to send medicines from your home. But if the shipping arrangement is not good in the area you are going to work, this process might create problems too. So check out shipping facilities in the region where you will work and plan according to that.
Always keep the original and labeled bottles of medicines and vaccinations when you will go on voluntary travel. Working for sea turtles would involve working in salt water and hot sun. So bringing special sunscreen cream and consulting dermatologist is really important. You can collect the contact information of a local dermatologist where you will work and visit him when necessary.
