Posts Tagged ‘volunteer work’
How You Can Change the World Through Volunteer Work
Find a need. Fill a need.
For many of us there comes a point in life, when you take pause, look around and realize we have it pretty good. It’s that moment when you discover that no matter how many points the Dow has dropped, or how high gas prices have become, we still live like kings and queens compared to a lot of people in the world. Then comes the wave of guilt, compassion, inspiration - whatever it is that moves a person to say: “ I want to do something. I, (insert full name here), want to make a difference.”
Hope and Healing
Mark and Peggy are two physicians from New York City who have taken a year off the grind of academic medicine to travel the globe. After six months of travel, they will finally land in Liberia, where they will work as volunteers. (Interview with Mark and Peggy)
Conor’s Mildly Thrilling Tales
Conor Grennan lived in Kathmandu, Nepal, where he ran a home for trafficked children.
Rambling Traveler: An Interview with Stacy
Travel does not necessarily have to involve a lot of money or a lot of time. Nor does it need to involve a flight overseas. Truly rewarding travel experiences can be enjoyed much closer to home, as people like Stacy from Rambling Traveler will testify. Many of her trips are day trips or weekends away around her home in Minnesota, though she also takes every opportunity she can get to head further afield, whether it be a volunteering trip down to Guatemala or an upcoming trip to Scotland.
Hope and Healing: An Interview with Mark and Peggy Shrime
One of the most popular trends in modern travel is voluntourism. One part travel, one part volunteering, voluntourism offers travellers a way to delve deeper into a place while also making it possible to support the local community in some small (or large) way.
Mark and Peggy's trip is a perfect example of voluntourism. A pair of physicians from New York City, they are on a one-year trip around the world, combining their love for travel with their desire to offer their medical skills as volunteers. After 6 months of roaming the globe, they will spend another 6 months in Sierra Leone, where they will volunteer with Mercy Ships, a charity providing free specialised health care to the Sierra Leoneans.
