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An interview with Heather Graham, the Director of Communications and Fund Development of Casa Guatemala. Casa Guatemala, located on the Rio Dulce near the southeastern coast of Guatemala, is an orphanage and school serving over 300 children who have been abused, abandoned, suffer from malnourishment, or were living in extreme poverty. These children come from [...]
I’m currently working out the details of my next volunteer location in the Philippines and I’m looking forward to the new adventure. I have been traveling around the world for 2 years and have volunteered in 5 countries. I am always on the prowl for an organization where I can do volunteer work and help a [...]
VolunTourism Defined: The conscious, seamlessly integrated combination of voluntary service to a destination and the best, traditional elements of travel — arts, culture, geography, history and recreation — in that destination. While Eco-Tourism & VolunTourism have been popular catch phrases in the travel industry for quite some time, they both have the potential to be a [...]
Finding myself ‘treading water’ in what I refer to as the “Lake of Debilitating Comfort Zone”, coupled with the timing & opportunity to break free, I decided it was time to shake the U.S. 5am-7pm monotonous workweek, dust off of my habitually bare feet & take flight over the proverbial Rainbow. Growing up, writing came [...]