With nearly 30k hosts in 155 countries, Workaway is an alternative to WWooFing for both hosts and volunteers.
The ‘work’ is more varied too. But the internet shows that there is a diverse range of experiences that have come from the scheme, not always entirely positive.
Like other similar schemes, it is essentially a membership database, for both hosts and volunteers.
Originated in 1948 by Garry Davis, a former Broadway actor and a former World War II bomber pilot, who renounced his US citizenship and declared himself a "citizen of the world." In 1953 in Ellworth, Maine, Davis declared the founding of the World Government of World Citizens.
The world passport is a machine readable travel document that resembles traditional passports issued by most nations of the world. The passports are now administered by a Washington-based non-profit called the World Service Authority. The Authority says the world passport represents the "inalienable human right of freedom of travel on planet Earth."
Find out more…but expect to be challenged and even locked up if you try using one!
Launched on 1st May 2013 this site is the official website for the Federation of WWOOF and promotes the WWOOF movement and provides general information about WWOOF organisations world-wide.
WWooF is also often referred to as ‘willing workers on organic farms’.