Ecotourism in Panama with the Embera
Immerse in the beauty of Panama’s jungles and connect with the Embera community through sustainable ecotourism. A friendly adventure awaits!
Voluntourism is traveling for good. Here we explore the many ways travelers can give back to communities around the world by going on volunteer work trips and helping people around the world.
Immerse in the beauty of Panama’s jungles and connect with the Embera community through sustainable ecotourism. A friendly adventure awaits!
Elqui Valley, Chile: One hundred volunteer healers from across the globe arrived in the remote Andean village of Cochiguaz for their final offering.
West Java: Staying with a local family in a small village in Indonesia in the jungles of Cianjur West Java.
Beans, Bananas and Bills: Learning and Living in Tanzania By Danille Kobet I never imagined that spending three weeks at the end of the earth, or the village of Kayanga in the Kagera region of rural Tanzania with Amizade, would be the best experience I’ve ever had in my life….
Non-Profit Supports Entrepreneurs with Tour Fees By Helena Wahlstrom In 2007, Trip Sweeney proposed an alternative to “slum tourism,” one of the fastest-growing niche tourism sectors in the world, that tempts adventure-seeking tourists from wealthy countries to visit impoverished areas. Instead of this form of tourism that more often than…
Kathleen Boradhurst visits the Panya Project in northern Thailand where she learns about permaculture, organic farming and sustainable living.
Projects Abroad gives high school students the opportunity to travel abroad during summer vacation and experience new cultures through volunteering
Cambodia Overcoming the Shadows of War By Shelley Seale At the age of 14, Ponheary Ly died and came back to life. At least, that’s how she describes it. The year was 1977, and the Khmer Rouge was on its deadly rampage in Cambodia. After seeing her father killed, along…
Nicole Sobel writes about a life-changing experience volunteering in two Ethipian-Israeli communities in Israel with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and Hillel.
A fourteen-year-old from Seattle joins his cousins to help build a house for a needy person in Guatemala how much does it cost to build a house in Guatemala
Helping HIV/AIDS victims in Thailand By Natalie Lefevre In the summer of 2006, I started a degree in international studies. I had a great time exchanging ideas with like-minded people. I was learning a lot of theories on how to change the world, but I was missing the practical side….
Devon Magoon writes about volunteer opportunities helping orphans and vulnerable children in Kenya through the AID Kenya Foundation and Touch Kenya.