Reading all the recent comments about LARTA prompted me to submit my own experience.   I was also very disappointed in the LATRA organization. I came to LATRA under false pretenses.  When I signed up with LATRA they  posted and STILL DO that they needed URGENT help when in fact they didnt even have a game plan for the current volunteers.  I had to smile when I saw the recent statement of all the activities they are posting. To the best of my knowledge they are all about 2 weeks in. The amazing team of volunteers that I recently  worked with put them ALL into action. The only thing that was in place was painting the houses. Yes, then there is the 3d printer that is not even plugged in???

My daughter and I were in Kara Tepe to volunteer for a month, but we both left LATRA after the first week, finding and moving on to more productive NGO's . I learned that several of the other NGO's have no idea what LATRA even does, even though LATRA  has been at Kara Tepe  since 2015??   I experienced first hand Arias LATRA 's  director lack of knowledge about what the other NGO's do at Kara Tepe..  when  Save the Children (the  NGO right next door to LATRA)   Arias didn't even know the schools schedule.  Yet, Arias had no problem calling out the volunteers for disrupted a class by accident, when in fact Arias was in the wrong for not providing the volunteers with this basic camp information about this important school schedule.

We left LATRA because we felt they were wasting our time, I felt they were at Kara Tepe out of self interest and not that of the refugees, I was VERY put off when I became aware of the fact that LATRA charged everyone a different sign up cost ranging fior $50.00 up to $200.00 per person. BE AWARE!!! That is NOT honest and you will not find that behavior with any other NGO"s at Kara Tepe. Lastly when a fellow volunteer had been severly injured and needed surgury. LATRA lacked responsibility. 

Overall Kara Tepe was a great place to volunteer, we met many wonderful caring people doing wonderful things.