Since its inception ten years ago QUEST has constantly strived to organise expeditions that achieve exactly what they set out to acheive and have a positive impact on everyone that takes part and everyone that comes in contact with a QUEST team. Through careful long term planning, a caring, personal approach and consistently high standards we have continued to achieve this throughout the last decade.
 
Unfortunately standards throughout the industry are not consistently high. However publications such as Dr Kate Simpson’s Ethical Volunteering Guide seek to raise standards and make ‘the volunteer’ more aware.

‘While volunteers intentions are nearly always good, this does not mean that all volunteer programmes or indeed volunteers, are good. Indeed there are some programmes, and some volunteers out there that can be said to do more harm than good.’

Dr Simpson has designed seven questions that are designed to help you learn as much as possible about the quality and value of the projects or placements an organisation offers BEFORE you arrive in the country with your newly packed backpack and a whole bundle of expectations.

QUEST wholeheartedly supports the ethos of the guide and as such we have a version of the guide available on this web-site and we have answered all of these essential questions as well.

The Ethical Volunteering Guide