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Living In A Village in Nepal
Photo © Michael Rosenkrantz I’m experiencing something that I never have before; living in a village, not necessarily how most people live, because I’m living in the hostel of a hospital with A/C in my bedroom, although with cement floors in my bedroom, but nevertheless I’m living in a village. Karjanha lies in the Terai ...
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NGOabroad: Frugal, Customized International Volunteering
“NGOabroad is well suited to people over 50. Why? Because NGOabroad places so much emphasis on utilizing the work or life experience that the volunteer brings,” Ann McLaughlin explained to me in a recent interview. McLaughlin, founder and principal of NGOabroad, has been involved in providing international volunteer opportunities and international career counseling since ...
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Maya Pedal — pedal-power in Guatemala
I have a non-technical mind and am always impressed to see the results of human ingenuity at work. The ability of humans to both define a need and to create a gadget or machine that satisfies that need is exciting to witness. On my recent trip to Central America I came across an organization that ...
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My Peace Corps Site – Twenty Years Later
One of the rewards of international volunteering is returning to a place where you once volunteered to visit old friends. I am currently on a trip to Guatemala where I served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in 1991-1992. I spent some time over the past two days in Jutiapa, Jutiapa Guatemala the capital of the ...
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Why Volunteer Internationally? – Points to Consider
In June of 2011, sitting at dinner with friends in an outdoor restaurant on the banks of the Axios/Vardar River in Skopje, Macedonia, I began reflecting upon my life over the past twenty years. I had just finished up an assignment as a long-term observer to the Macedonian elections. In January I had returned from ...
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