5 days ago by travelanthropist

American Airlines is offering unbelievable rates, as low as $149 each way, to Belize for travel between January 1- March 31, 2010. In order to take advantage of the low fares, tickets must be purchased on AA.com by December 22, 2009. For those of you who dream of voluntourism in this tropical paradi ...

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8 days ago by Liza

As many of you know I’ve been trying to figure out the best way to contribute to the orphanage to make sure the money gets to the right place. I trust the NGO that partners with the US volunteer organization who facilitated my work in Cambodia and they had the good idea of providing the funding for ...

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12 days ago by hablac

Leer esta entrada en español The following is an interview with Luis Sandoval, who has worked with numerous short-term work teams with Habitat for Humanity Costa Rica. Luis shares his thoughts on the value of volunteers, what volunteerism means to Habitat, a very “Habitat” experience, and more. Why ...

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13 days ago by Liza

The fam I forgot to tell you how great my host family was while in Phnom Penh. Living there are the parents, one daughter and 2 sons (all in their 20’s) and Brother drives me to work the grandmother. They have another daughter who is married with a son that lives close by. Traditionally you live wit ...

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14 days ago

While most kids’ faces here in the UK light up at the sound of an ice cream van approaching, kids living in the slum areas of Goa get more excited about the prospect of the mobile school bus rolling in! On i-to-i’s brand new trip in the stunning Indian state of Goa, volunteers help bring education t ...

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14 days ago by Phil Borges

In 2002 National Geographic conducted a survey accessing the geographic literacy of 18 to 24 year olds in 9 industrialized countries. The United States came in next to last—85% could not find Afghanistan on a map; 56% could not find India and 30% could not find the Pacific Ocean. Last year less than ...

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16 days ago by Liza

Another amazing week My afternoon kids with the kids! One day we talked about colors and the verb “to want”. I had a bag of balloons and we took turns asking “Do you want a yellow balloon?” They would reply with “Yes, I want a yellow balloon” or “No, I want a blue balloon”. I love to see how excited ...

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16 days ago by travelanthropist

Volunteer tourism or “voluntourism”, which has been increasingly popular among leisure travelers, is extending its reach into the workplace. Some folks are taking sabbaticals from their jobs to be philanthropic volunteers. Some companies not only permit employees to take sabbaticals, they are puttin ...

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21 days ago by hablac

Leer esta entrada en español I am Patrick Thompson, an international volunteer from Vancouver, Canada. For the past six months I have had the opportunity to serve as Volunteer Coordinator with Habitat for Humanity Argentina (HFHA). In this capacity I work as a volunteer, helping to recruit, train, a ...

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21 days ago by travelanthropist

In this age of rapid, proliferated, and uncensored information, you can pretty much find anything by googling. Before you go and celebrate this amazing information access, consider this — it may be a double-edged sword — you get the quantity but how is the quality? You get tons of information instan ...

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