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How, When & Where to Volunteer Travel

Julia Rosien | Sep 1, 2016 - 07:24
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Average: 3.9 (7 votes)

celebrating access to clean waterWhen you give communities clean water, you’re able to help in a multitude of areas of their lives. Healthy kids are able to go to school, which always leads to a better a life. Healthy adults are able to work to support their families. Water Ambassadors ...

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Volunteer Travel - Do you know how to do it right?

GG Staff | May 22, 2016 - 20:22
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volunteer as a familyvolunteer as a familyEvery moment of travel has something to teach, but if you as the traveler increase the time you spend interacted with new people-more time pushing at the walls of...

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A Day in the Life of a Volunteer at the Ngong Hospital

GG Staff | Apr 9, 2013 - 07:02 | 1 Comment
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Average: 3.5 (18 votes)
volunteers working hardvolunteers working hardOur group was up early and, in typical African style, we headed off for our 20 minute walk to the hospital to meet Mama Grace and be assigned our duties for the day. Our first task was to load some large bags ...
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Olivia Millwood's Haiti Mission ~ Meeting the Children

GG Staff | Mar 17, 2013 - 08:00
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Average: 3.3 (30 votes)
big smiles from the childrenbig smiles from the childrenVisiting and working in an orphanage and school in Haiti was both the most wonderful and heart wrenching experience of my life so far. To see children who have nothing light up with a smile or a hug or a simple coloring activity is life changing ...
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Volunteering in Ngong, Kenya

GG Staff | Mar 15, 2013 - 09:04
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helping others as a voluntour grouphelping others as a voluntour groupRecently, my company, Bucket List Adventures, was fortunate enough to take a group of 10 people to Ngong, Kenya. We were able to volunteer at an orphanage, visit a school in the slums, work at the local hospital, go on safari and live a day in the life of a Maasai ...
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Olivia Millwood's Haiti Mission ~ First Days

GG Staff | Feb 18, 2013 - 06:37
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Playground of the orphanagePlayground of the orphanageThere are so many wonderful experiences from my trip that narrowing it down to a condensed blog post seems overwhelming. I hope to share the best of it, to give you a taste of the high's and low's of a mission trip to Haiti ...

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