HOW TO JOIN:
Read project details below, then contact the persons in the description for an application form. Some trip descriptions may have forms available for download.
Fees: The contact person will inform you of any fees that may apply.
Lodging & Airfare: With a RoadScholar trip, volunteers pay for lodging, food costs through the total project fee directly to Roadscholar. For CVE trips, each volunteer is responsible for their own airfare and lodging.
What its like: Click on this link for descriptions of various projects, or check out the newsletters.
Caribbean Volunteer Expeditions 2012-2013 Programs
www.cvexp.org Box 388, Corning, NY 14830 Email: ahershcve@aol.com T: 607 962 7846
CVE PROJECTS 2012- 2013
ST JOHN, USVI HISTORIC PRESERVATION PROJECT: February 12 – 19, 2012
Documentation of buildings on Hassel Island and St. John for the Virgin Islands National Park.
The National Park Service contacted CVE to request our assistance in documenting the officer’s barracks at Hassel Island, built by the British during their occupation of 1807-1815, as well as sugar factory ruins in St John.
St John is one of the beautiful US Virgin Islands and much of the island is a National Park. The island had been a Danish possession and many three hundred year old ruins of the sugar and cotton plantation era still remain. For the past 20 years, CVE has been working with the National Park archeologists to help document and preserve these historic structures.
Plenty of time for beach activities (snorkeling, swimming), and hiking in the USVI National Park. Optional trips to the Virgin Gorda baths can be arranged.
Contact: Anne Hersh: ahershcve@aol.com
Download more information (PDF)
WILLEMSTAD, CURACAO, NETHERLAND ANTILLES: February 20-24, 2012
Project One: Our first project will be assisting the National Archaeological –Anthropological Memory Management (NAAM), We’ll help catalog, weigh and digitize artifacts in the NAAM laboratory.
Project Two: Our other project will be measuring and drawing with the volunteers of STIMANA, which in English translates to the Foundation for Marine Archaeology of the Netherlands Antilles. The STIMANA primarily focuses on maritime and underwater archeological projects.
Request for Information Form, Curacao Trip
- Microsoft Word: www.cvexp.org/newsltr/CVE-curacao2.doc
- PDF: www.cvexp.org/newsltr/CVE-curacao2.pdf
Description, Curacao Trip:
- Microsoft Word: www.cvexp.org/newsltr/CVE-curacao-1.doc
- PDF: www.cvexp.org/newsltr/CVE-curacao-1.pdf
PRESERVATION PROJECTS IN NEVIS
Dates: To be determined
We can provide you with a custom designed volunteer preservation project in beautiful Nevis. We will arrange a work project as well as the dates, and accommodations to suit your interests, abilities, schedule and budget. Work can include archival and display work at one of the museums in Nevis or gardening, clearing, or light construction work on historic structures. Two of the CVE group leaders live in Nevis and will coordinate the project with the Nevis Historic and Conservation Society. Nevis is an undiscovered island, with many historic structures dating from the sugar plantation era, as well as a charming capital city: Charlestown, still retaining many of its stone and wood shops.
Costs and Dates: To be determined
Contact: Anne Hersh: ahershcve@aol.com 
SAN SALVADOR, BAHAMAS: Archeological Project: March 18 – 25, 2012
San Salvador Island, Commonwealth of the Bahamas, is one of the eastern most islands of this archipelago off the southeast coast of Florida, and was the first landfall of Columbus in 1492. The island is pristine, ringed with beautiful beaches. We will be working with archeologist, John Winter, who has had over 25 years experience working in archeology on San Salvador. The island was first inhabited by Indians who migrated from South America, and later by Loyalists, fleeing the US after the revolutionary war. Archeological finds have included Indian, Spanish, and other European colonists artifacts. Accommodations are double occupancy, motel-type rooms at the Gerace Research Center.
Contact: srice@stotac.com
Trip Leader: Helen Ross, Architectural Historian
(exact dates to be announced)
CVE volunteers will return to work with staff at the Museo Tula, a museum dedicated to Curacao's slave heritage and the memory of Tula who led an uprising in 1795. Projecs may include measuring and drawing a well at Landhuis Kenapa, one of two of this type known to exist. If time permits we may conduct photographic documentation of traditional worker housing in an area known as Fleur de Marie in the capital city, Willemstad. Helen Ross, architectural historian, will be leading the group. Curacao has many examples of 17th and 18th century Dutch colonial buildings, and Willemstad is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Volunteers will have time to explore and there will be opportunities for snorkeling and swimming.
Contact: Helen Ross: 214hpross@cox.net
Download information on Curacao trip: PDF Word
Download Request for Information Form: PDF Word
ROAD SCHOLAR PROJECTS 2012
CVE runs projects for Road Scholar volunteers and one must contact Road Scholar directly - for more information and registration.
17683: ARCHEOLOGY IN ST. EUSTATIUS Jan 15-22, 2012
Volunteers will be working with Dr. Grant Gilmore of the St. Eustatius Center for Archeological Research and with the CVE leader, Susan Sanders, an archeologist with extensive experience in Statia. . Work will include excavation, sifting, cataloguing , and other archeological projects. Statia is a tiny undiscovered Caribbean island, which was once a bustling center of trade with over 20,000 inhabitants. The island changed hands 22 times, and the Dutch took possession in 1636; the island is still Dutch. We will be staying at the Kingswell Hotel, near the center of charming Oranjestat, the capital city. There will be opportunities for swimming and hiking.
3594 ST KITTS CEMETERY INVENTORY Jan 22 – 29 , 2012
CVE works with the St Kitts Heritage Society on a cemetery inventory
which provides important genealogical information to the island.
Participants will be exposed to the history of St. Kitts and the West Indies,
enjoy visits to some of the more off-the beaten track parts of the island and
meet with some really interesting people. We will be staying at the
beachfront Timothy Beach Resort.
