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A Life-Changing Summer: Missions in China

Posted on March 5, 2012 by unusual.passions | 0 Comments

Featured Writer: Alisha Newton Summertime for the student is a three-month span of blank calendar boxes, simmering temperatures, and boundless energy. For me in particular, I want to make every month of the year count towards growing and learning—my kind of adventure—and the summer is the perfect opportunity to have the best adventures of all. So the summer of 2010, I…

Sensory Overload in Udaipur, Rajasthan, India

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Volunteer Vacations | 1 Comments

Delhi airport was very modern, clean and uncrowded and we killed time having a foot massage each (1750 rupees for 2) at the spa smelling of sandalwood which was dark, cool and relaxing before taking the 345pm flight to Udaipur. Gaurav from the organization that we were visiting met us outside the airport and took us to our hotel which…

Indiana Jones for a Day

Posted on March 5, 2012 by audreygjohnson | 1 Comments

Featured Writer: Audrey Johnson from Dangerously Daydreaming Three years ago, I went on a humanitarian aid trip to Amman, Jordan. Our work and experiences I’ll save for another article where I can do them justice. For now, I’ll just reminisce on when I got to be Indiana Jones for a day… Indiana Jones: The Last Crusade made a major impact on…

Friends Without a Border/Angkor Hospital for Children

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Lesley | 2 Comments

~Featured Writer: Lynda Renhamcook~ Having left England on a cold December day, I arrived at Siem Reap in Cambodia on Christmas day late in the evening. The heat hit me immediately. As I was still wearing my warm clothes I was quite relieved to feel the cool breeze on my face as I took my first Tuk Tuk ride to my accommodation. I had…

Holy Moments from an Unholy Disaster

Posted on February 18, 2012 by Lesley | 3 Comments

~Featured Writer: Marilyn Gardner~ I am the first to admit that given the choice of a 5 star hotel or camping I will pick a 5 star hotel. I tell friends that anyone who grew up in the developing world with a commode for a toilet and one bath a week would appreciate my love of luxury so it was…

The Giving Trip

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Lesley | 19 Comments

~Featured Writer: Jan Hanson~ In early January 2007, I boarded an early morning flight from Minneapolis making my way to Ayacucho, Peru. While boarding the flight to the Andean city, a woman asked in broken English where I was going. I told her I was serving as an international volunteer in Ayacucho. She said, “It’s very poor there.” That is…

Kyangwali Refugee Camp: Between Hope and Despair

Posted on February 11, 2012 by Lesley | 4 Comments

Kyangwali Refugee Camp: Between Hope and Despair Featured Writer: Ella Rychlewski http://ellamr2.wordpress.com/ Soon after I arrived in Uganda, I had the opportunity to visit Kyangwali Refugee Camp in Hoima district, western Uganda. COBURWAS, a partner organisation of Educate where I work, is based in the camp. The journey from Hoima district town to Kyangwali takes over four stressful hours on…

The Haiti Chronicles – In Panorama

Posted on February 11, 2012 by Lesley | 0 Comments

The Haiti Chronicles – In Panorama Featured Writer: Nathan Deremer Check him out at DeremerStudios.com nate@deremerstudios.com https://deremerstudios.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/the-haiti-chronicles-part-6-in-panorama/ This is (most likely) my final post on Haiti. Over the course of the week, I had the opportunity to photograph several panoramas, both in Port-au-Prince, and in the more rural Gressier. Above is one panorama we captured of the beautiful sunset over the western…