Past GIVE Volunteer, Now Zero-Waste Environmentalist: An Interview with Carly Bergman By Sammie Sjogreen Many of our volunteers go on our international trips looking for a way to take sustainable action and learn through travel. That was certainly the case for past...
read moreAsset Based Community Development 101 By Jake Muniak | Nicaragua GIVE Guide 2014-2015, Thailand GIVE Guide 2018-2019 I spent 4 years as a guide for GIVE Volunteers, a volunteer abroad organization that practices Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) in the...
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7 Tips To Fundraise A Volunteer Abroad Trip Over The Holidays By Jake Muniak Fundraising over the holidays is the best time of year to gain support for your volunteer trip You know that volunteer abroad trip you’ve been thinking about over the past few months?...
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How to Do Volunteer Travel the Right Way This Summer By Joey Conway Over the last few years, the idea of ‘volunteer travel’ has been a hot topic in the travel world. Due to an increase in demand by millennials, like myself, who want to travel with purpose, companies...
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Education Empowers – A Story of Local Leadership By Sammie Rothney GIVE is built upon the foundation of grassroots community development. The two biggest sources of successful development are education and community leadership. We are very lucky to have...
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Climbing Kilimanjaro for a Cause By Megan Montville Powell My first GIVE trip to Tanzania in May of 2015 led me to come back in July of 2018, but this time with a purpose much bigger than myself. I had the goal to climb Kilimanjaro for a cause to raise money for...
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Ways To Invest In Yourself: 7 Ways Travel Makes You Better By Jake Muniak, Thailand GIVE Guide We’ve all heard, “Invest in yourself, it pays the best interest”, and a college education seems to be the most efficient and effective...
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The Jon Parker Memorial Fund: Pong Ngen Community Center By Dan Trevor The quality of Jonathan Parker’s life is so clearly evident in the heartfelt stories, photos, videos and messages of unwavering love and support shared over the last week. Although it’s...
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10 Zero-Waste Items to Bring on Your Eco-Travel Trip By Carly Bergman I have always lived an environmentally conscious lifestyle… or so I thought. When I went on my GIVE trip two years ago, my perspective on my current lifestyle changed. In Nicaragua, I was...
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15 Ways To Fundraise Over Winter Break By Sammie Rothney Now that you have a break from school, you’ve got time to raise some serious funds for your international travels with GIVE! If you’re volunteering with us this summer, this means you’ve got 3-5 months to...
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How to Creatively Fundraise to Volunteer Abroad By Danielle Sapah-Gulian Let me tell you how I used creative fundraising strategies to fundraise my whole trip to volunteer abroad with GIVE Volunteers. It all began in 2016, I attended a GIVE Volunteers info...
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The GIVE Laos Education Fund By Carly Schade Laos Regional Coordinator In the remote, alluring village of Sop Chem, Laos there are 57 families full of eager students with the desire to continue their education to secondary school. With each family living off an...
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Traveling With Friends Is Fun; Traveling with strangers is even better. By Jessica Hilk Past Volunteer: Nicaragua ’16, Southeast Asia ’18 Some of you may have talked to past volunteers, scrolled through the GIVE Volunteers website, or seen posts on social...
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Humans of GIVE: Lhakpa Tamang Jangba By Daniel Trevor Lhakpa Tamang Jangba had just walked into his bakery, a bakery passed down to him by his late father, when the earthquake struck. It was 11:56 AM on April 25, 2015, a “Black Day” in Nepal’s history; one that will...
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Food For Thought By Lane Carrandi During my time volunteering in Thailand with GIVE volunteers, I had the opportunity to spend a week on a Permaculture Farm about 6 hours North of Chiang Mai. This Permaculture site is located at a primary school called NongBua and...
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