Volunteer Travel: Do You Get What You Pay For?

by abroadvolunteers
( August 30th, 2010 )

After volunteering in Peru with Karikuy, I started writing a post about how you get what you pay for when it comes to volunteer experiences. Project #3 of The Global Citizen Project with Campamento Tortugeuro Platanitos in Nayarit, Mexico quickly changed my mind.

The more I process my volunteer experience with …

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I Committed A Cultural Faux Pas (And I’d Do It Again)

by abroadvolunteers
( August 9th, 2010 )

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Try as I might to be a polite-as-can-be traveler, I am not perfect. In fact,  I committed a cultural faux pas during my recent volunteer stint in Peru. I bought Chilean wine – on the eve of Peru’s Independence Day. ...

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Finalist for WE tv’s WE Do Good Awards Contest, in partnership with Ladies Home Journal

by abroadvolunteers
( July 28th, 2010 )

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Lima, Peru may be my volunteering home right now for project #2 of The Global Citizen Project, but my shouts of excitement when I learned that I’m one of five finalists in the Travel For Good Award Category of WE tv’s …

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