I walk along the brown Thu Bon river,in the golden beauty of the UNESCO World Heritage town of Hoi An. I skirt the groups of Japanese tourists in traditional dress, Vietnamese women slender in white Ao Dai, and older women enticing me on to their brilliantly painted boats. I am neither tempted nor diverted: my goal is in sight. An ethical, local based craft collective, a charity that helps disadvantaged Vietnamese people and their families to … [Read more...]
Six Ways Volunteering can Make you a Better Person
Maria Alfonso from Spain writes.. My personal volunteering experience, I come up with the conclusion that volunteering travel makes you a responsible person rather than JUST travel. How Volunteering Abroad Made Me A Responsible Person - A Better Person.... 1. You become much more independent than you ever were Gone are the days when you used to remain dependent on any of your friends to tag along with you for that long awaited … [Read more...]
Being a Valuable Volunteer
Here are some resources for those wondering if they should volunteer.... Volunteer Tourism has taken off in the last 10 years. I set up a page of links to Volunteer Tourism Projects on my Women Travel Website However, someone recently asked me about whether they were all good or worthwhile projects - a very good question. So much of what is going on is offering band aid solutions, simplistic answers to complex questions, people from … [Read more...]
Volunteer Travel and Meet Someone LIke Ngima Doma
Volunteer Travel is a growing sector in the Travel Industry - Our Women Travel website tries to keep an up to date listing of Volunteer Networks, here us a snippet from one of them Edge of Seven to celebrate International Womens Day. Ngima Doma is just one woman who is walking testament to the trength and potential of women in Nepal. Ngima Doma is the headmaster of the school system in Basa, where we recently helped to build additional … [Read more...]
The International Women’s Day`s flag to the Roof of Africa
Spread the word - people should value the girls’ education all over the world Please help us any way you can to collect 10,000 women’s names for our flag that we want to take to the peak of Kilimanjaro on March 8th to celebrate the International Women’s Day. With this message and this flag we want to show our support and spread the message that people should value the girls’ education all over the world. All those women who share our ideas can … [Read more...]
Volunteering with Special Needs Students in Costa Rica
As a female nursing student from North Carolina who had never before traveled outside of the country, I was excited - and a little bit nervous - about my first trip abroad. I am studying to become a developmental disability nurse, so I chose to volunteer abroad in the special needs schools in San Ramon, Costa Rica., through Uvolunteer reading glasses online This was the perfect opportunity for me to help out the population that I love in a … [Read more...]
Trek to Everest Base Camp AND Help Create a Better Future for Girls
Edge of Seven Announces 2013 Trek with a Purpose to Everest Base Camp to Provide Education for Girls in Nepal Combining a once-in-a-lifetime adventure with the opportunity to help educate girls in the developing world, Edge of Seven, a nonprofit based in Denver, Colo., is excited to announce our 21-day Trek with a Purpose to Everest Base Camp departing in October 2013. Perfect for adventure seekers who want to experience the beauty and … [Read more...]
VOLUNTEERING IN INDIA – Look to your motives!
Dianne Sharma-Winter runs Women Travel India and here she writes about voluteering in India: Hot on the heels of a recent article I wrote about why India doesn't need you to volunteer, I was lured into doing the very thing I advised against! For the next three months I have committed my time and energy to volunteering at Sambhali Women and Girl Empowerment Centre in Jodhpur, Rajasthan and am currently living with 15 rambunctious girls in a … [Read more...]
Travel2Change – a great network connecting travelers and locals
Women Travel is committed to sustainable living and sustainable travel, one of the ways of living this out is to travel with a purpose, and Travel2Change is the latest network we have come across that help to make this possible, through their commitment to connecting travelers with locals to create change. We have just added them to our Volunteering links page Travel2Change on Twitter on Facebook … [Read more...]
Why You Should Consider Teaching Abroad
Guest Blog by Lauren Seidl Many people dream of taking a year to live and work abroad, but the task of finding a job in another country seems so daunting they don’t even try. Teaching abroad is one simple way to combine work and travel that is often overlooked. With English becoming such a widespread language, schools across the globe are seeking native English speakers to teach the language to their students. Not a teacher? Not a problem. If … [Read more...]
