Posts Tagged ‘volunteer’
Global Good: Your Ultimate Guide To Responsible Voluntourism
Dear Potential Volunteers, Do you want a great volunteer travel experience and truly want to help? 
But you don’t want to get involved with unethical practices or bad “voluntourism?” 
You want to “volunteer abroad” and that’s different, right? Unfortunately, it’s not. If you’re paying for the experience and not getting expenses covered, if you’re spending…Read more...
Travel Bloggers Without Borders: Maria and Carmen’s Second Last Chance
When I met Maria and Carmen, they were young, grade-school-age girls. They owned no more than the ragged clothes on their back. They had never been to school. They owned no shoes. Their days were spent scavenging recyclables in mounds of trash from the Guatemalan garbage dump where the girls had been trafficked. Human beings…Read more...
How You Can Make A Difference Today With Travel Bloggers Without Borders
Jessie on a Journey is participating in the first annual Travel Bloggers Without Borders fundraising event, which is seeking to make a difference by raising a total of $10,000 to help provide tuition for 55 young children to attend school in Guatemala. Working with The Integral Heart Foundation, this money will go toward providing education…Read more...
How To Make Friends When Traveling Solo
Having nobody to travel with shouldn’t stop you from visiting the destinations you dream of going to. In fact, meeting others on the road is a lot easier than people think. To help you make friends while traveling solo, use the tips below. Strike Up Conversation On Public Transport Taking public transportation is a great…Read more...
Why You Don’t Need To Know The Local Language To Teach English Abroad
As someone who spent a summer in Thailand teaching English to students from preschool level through college, people often assume that I can speak fluent Thai. While I was able to pick up some conversational phrases from being immersed in the culture, I was nowhere near fluent. Then comes the question I always know is…Read more...
Fun And Games In Ghana: De be De be
When I was doing a homestay in Ghana, Africa, I loved learning what kinds of games the children played and seeing how they were similar and different from what I played when I was a child. One favorite of the girls was a hand game called “De be De be”, which is similar to the American…Read more...
Conga Lines at Church in Ghana, Africa
Before going to Ghana, Africa, Â I had been told that I absolutely had to attend a church service as it is an amazing event. Moreover, all of the children at the home were very devote Christians, and I wanted to be a part of something that was special to them. Demet, another volunteer, and…Read more...
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