Monthly Program Spotlight

Every month we highlight can’t miss opportunities to Have Fun & Help People at one of our locations worldwide.
This might involve building a school in Ghana, a home in Romania, special work at a Lao orphanage, and much much more.
Though we work hand in hand with local communities to ensure that all of our programs are meaningful, you’ll find here particularly life changing programs of extraordinary benefit to our local partners, host communities, and you!

This Month's Volunteer Vaction Spotlight - Cuba!

Contrary to what most Canadians and Americans believe, Cuba is open, accessible and welcoming!

While there are no direct flights from the United States available for non-Cuban nationals, Americans can depart for Cuba from Jamaica, the Bahamas, Mexico or Canada where airlines such as Air Canada have regular daily and charter flights.

Globe Aware is a registered Canadian Charitable organization, specializing in short-term, one-week volunteer vacations in Cuba. Trips focus on cultural awareness and sustainability and immerse travellers in the Cuban community.

Although home to more than 11 million people, Cuban culture has been shrouded in mystery to most North Americans because of prolonged economic and political strain between the United States and Cuba. "Cubanos are proud, educated, and often quite happy to share opinions."The Care for Cuba program pulls back the curtains on this Caribbean culture and gives volunteers a clear look at the beauties, struggles, and determination of the Cuban people. Cubanos are proud, educated, and often quite happy to share opinions. Isolated for years due to the “blockade” (as Cubans refer to the embargo the US imposed against the Communist state), their culture has been influenced by many cultures, none perhaps as heavily as Spain, Africa and the United States. Full of music, derelict buildings, joy and sorrow, the country offers few material pleasures but immense humanitarian rewards.

There has never been a more exciting time to take part in volunteer travel in Cuba!

Imagine a culture where everyone is literate and has access to free medical care, no starving people. This is the Cuba of today. In stark contrast to North America, its southern neighbor also offers almost no material consumer goods.

Experience this now, before long anticipated change comes with the passing of the Fidel Castro generation. Open music in streets everywhere, hardly any car traffic, smiles, most visitors are enchanted with a world unlike any they could imagine. The embargo has meant severely restricted commerce, and access to affordable food, but has also preserved and insulated a culture unique in the world.