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Haiti Visit ~ Passports with Purpose

by Beth Whitman (May 13th, 2013)

Last week, Mara Gorman and I went to Haiti to visit a couple of communities where water wells were (and still are being) constructed. These are wells funded by the Passports with Purpose fundraiser late last year. In total, we raised just over $116,000 which will ultimately fund six wells (whoo hoo!). It was a [...]

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Haiti ~ Photo of the Day

by Beth Whitman (May 10th, 2013)

I’ll write more about my brief visit to Haiti next week, but I wanted to add this photo today to show the beauty in these people. The above photo was taken at the inaugural ceremony of one of the water wells that was funded by Passports with Purpose during our 2012 fundraiser. The man (and [...]

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Volunteering Abroad – Good or Bad?

by Beth Whitman (December 10th, 2012)

One of my tour participants emailed me last week asking what I thought about volunteering in India. She was interested in returning after having gone on our North India tour this fall. She had read in a blog post (written by an expat living in India for nearly 20 years) that people should not go [...]

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