Volunteer Abroad
In my experience the most common amount of time for a long-term volunteer program experience is three months. This makes perfect sense to me: it’s about as long as a college semester or summer vacation, it’s a manageable amount of time to go without getting paid, and it’s 25% of a year which is a [...]
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I’ll admit it – I am a sucker for photos of animals. People with animals, animals with other animals, animals with babies just get me every time. So as I’m researching volunteer abroad placement organizations for this week’s blog, I had to stop when I saw a photo of a volunteer with an elephant and [...]
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Continuing our exploration of non US-based work abroad organizations, this week we spotlight The Working Holiday Club (TWHC). There are so many reasons that I like this organizations (many of which I will get to a bit later), but the first is that nothing sounds quite as appealing as a “working holiday” – to my [...]
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