Travel to Africa and give children the chance to learn in a safe classroom, or help build a home for a family in need on a Building Project. You’ll put your energy and time into building houses and schools in communities that desperately need extra support. You can work in Tanz
My name is Christina Dykas and I am a student at Union College in Schenectady, New York. I am studying Biology and Psychology, with a minor in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies. I have been interested in the field of women's health and specifically the birthing process for a
I am currently a college student from Missouri, United States. I have had a passion for Africa and its people since I was twelve. I wanted to go overseas to see how nursing and medicine differ in a different country and knew Tanzania was my calling.I started researching companies
lived in Sri Lanka for the first seven years of my life and had visited a couple times since then. I had always dreamt of going back and helping in any way that I could. Little did I know that making the decision to volunteer in Sri Lanka with Projects Abroad was going to become
It’s been a year since my trip with Projects Abroad to Costa Rica. I can’t even begin to explain how much I miss my placement, my host family and all the amazing people I was so blessed to meet. This is an unreal organization that not only makes you feel comfortable a
I had never been on a plane without my parents before. I hadn’t even been to Africa before and I had never been on a Projects Abroad trip or known someone that had been. But I signed up for the High School Special Childcare & Community with French in Togo after doing a lot
About MeMy love for travelling and nursing developed while I was completing my Bachelor of Science nursing degree. Within days of officially graduating, I was on my way to Ghana for six weeks to participate in the Public Health Project there. The decision to go turned out to be o
Being my first time leaving the United States, I took a lot of time to research different programmes that offered volunteering abroad. After emailing back and forth with a couple different groups, I finally decided to go with Projects Abroad to Nepal.From the very beginning Proje
When I signed up for the Care & Community Project in South Africa with Projects Abroad, I would be lying if I said I wasn’t extremely anxious. I had never flown by myself, let alone gone to a foreign country and stayed with a bunch of strangers from all over the globe.I had
I was extremely nervous about my trip to the Galapagos. Flying from England to Ecuador by myself seemed quite daunting, especially as a first time trip by myself. However, I had been fully prepared by my Volunteer Advisor and other members of staff from Projects Abroad with whom
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