Origins

Our enthusiastic team evolved in archaeological expeditions that gave us an opportunity to travel in inaccessible locations and meet new cultures, while obtaining new friends, skills and making a visible output into this field. We have soon figured out that we do not have time to participate in each expedition or project that we know. This is why we decided to share information on opportunities of meaningful journeys with everyone, whom it can serve well, and launched GoodSurfing, which initially was a page in social media. The audience of the pages has gradually grown up from our friends to thousands of subscribers: it turned out that many people share the idea of meaningful journeys and are searching for such opportunities. Our vision of travelling has also changed step by step: it became boring to travel as tourists as soon as we realized that we could discover more as volunteers helping communities and discovering incredible world around them hidden from overcrowded shiny tourist routes.

Soon, we noticed that the pages in social media are not enough to fit all accumulated information on opportunities, volunteering projects and expeditions, that started to exceed far beyond Russian borders. We decided to create a convenient service, which makes possible to find a project, make an application, receive a confirmation, communicate with hosts and fellow team mates as well as to leave a feedback on a project in one place. At the same time, starting to implement our own volunteering projects, we have realised how it is hard to find participants and share experiences with other hosts. This is why, GoodSurfing also provides a ground for a variety of hosts from NGOs to research institutions to find participants and receive the support of like-minded people both by word and deed. Of course, we know about global travel services, but none of them was completely matching our vision: limited types of activities, no information about expeditions, paid registration, selection of projects with high registration fees. This is why GoodSurfing is a completely different service in terms of quality, accessibility and meaning. Welcome to GoodSurfing, a free platform for traveling with meaning that is improved every day by its users. If you have any ideas or suggestions about how to make GoodSurfing better, just write us. Let's create a comfortable environment for volunteering together!