As Carolyn Maskens explains, when she set out to raise a bit of money to help improve the lives of the children at an orphanage in the East African nation of Kenya, she and her Kenyan friends were amazed by the response.
I graduated from Queen’s this spring with an honours degree in Life ... Views: 1425
Ethiopia, a landlocked country in Eastern Africa which is slightly less than twice the size of Texas, has a poverty stricken economy with over 80 million people striving to survive. It is a nation that is well known for its droughts and famines and its long civil conflict and a border war with ... Views: 1442
Introducing Mandy Morell, GVN Alaska Partner, great friend and world traveller!
Mandy is currently travelling through Ethiopia and India and has just spent a month volunteering in Kolkata. Mandy is a committed humanitarian and says "the reason I travel is to volunteer, not climb mountains, ... Views: 1170
Volunteering requires a great deal of commitment and determination. It is filled with personal challenges and enormous rewards which are often life changing for the volunteer. Some volunteers feel compelled to go the extra mile and make sacrifices in order to better the lives of the community ... Views: 1335