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Tuesday, 11 September 2012 19:00

Your travel queries answered

The experts Your travel queries answered *Volunteer Vacations "I have heard of volunteer vacations and am thinking of undertaking one this winter. Where would you suggest I go, and how should I plan the trip?" STEVEN ROSE Founder and executive director Cross Cultural Solutions  ARJUN SHARMA Managing director. Le Passage to India Select Group  KIMBERLY HALEY COLEMAN Executive directo, Globe Aware   Meaningful volunteering can be as simple as sharing love and affection with orphans. or practicing conversational English w1th adults seeking new career opportunities. We at Cross-Cultural Solutions (www. crossculturalsolutions.org) have sent over 26,000 volunteers to 12 countries since 1995. including our founding programme in India. Volunteers in Dharamsala. for example,have assisted teachers in special education. In Peru. volunteers have cared for people with…

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Friday, 31 August 2012 19:00

Improve Your Relationship

Elisabeth Joy LaMotte, Psychotherapist; Author, 'Overcoming Your Parents’ Divorce: 5 Steps to a Happy Relationship' and contibutor to The Huffington Post, suggests a volunteer vacation may help your relationship: As a couples therapist, I hear a lot about the challenge of finding quality time and the importance of vacations. Many couples are balancing two demanding careers not to mention kids, chores and family demands. It is no wonder that when couples do finally plan some romantic time away, many opt to lie on a beach somewhere -- preferably a location accessible through a direct flight -- and chill. Many couples and families are getting ready to do just that for the last few days of summer. For sure, unstructured beach time is a wonderful way…

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Globe Aware is 100% volunteer funded!  Please help us help you Have fun and Help people!  Click on http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000830583813#!/ChaseCommunityGiving?v=app_162065369655&ref=ts  and in the box that says charity name type Globe Aware and press enter.  When the page opens scroll down once more and click on the blue Globe Aware link and after a new page opens one last time look to the top right and click a green box that says "Vote Now" make sure to say allow when the Chase pop up window comes up or your vote will not count!  Thank you so so very much if you vote!! You are basically donating to a GREAT cause with just a few clicks! 

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Teaching English in Angkor Wat, Cambodia Why Go Now: Philanthropy is fantastic, but a one-week, hands-on stint volunteering in Cambodia—still in need of much aid—can be much more personally satisfying. It can also pretty quickly make a person grateful for his life back home. Globe Aware’s volunteer vacations in Angkor Wat engage travelers in making a genuine influence on others’ lives in a very short time: teaching English, working with children, distributing wheelchairs to adults and children in rural villages. The accommodations will be modest, but the Khmer food and magnificent Angkor Wat temples make the authentic experience entirely welcome.

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Sunday, 28 February 2010 18:31

More Americans Take Volunteer Vacations

By GIGI STONE When you think of teenagers on spring break, visions of Daytona Beach or Cancun may come to mind — not necessarily a trip to Cambodia. But that's where Kate McNamara, a 16-year-old New Yorker, went on vacation with her family, volunteering to teach children English and build wheelchairs for land mine victims. "It wasn't that long and it was a small group of people … but it made just such a huge difference, " she says. "It was one of the most rewarding things that I think that I've ever done." Her mother, Elizabeth McNamara adds, "In a world that needs so much, just to a little bit to make a difference in someone's life is a very positive experience."

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Sunday, 28 February 2010 18:27

Voluntourism: Good Times and Good Works

Voluntourism: Good Times and Good Works by Steve Kallaugher Most people come home from vacation with a nice tan and a suitcase full of souvenirs. Carolyn Bentley returned from a trip she took with her 17-year-old daughter, Julia, with a new outlook on life and a renewed bond with her child. “It was life changing,” says Bentley. “It’s an amazing way to grow yourself and develop bonds with others. You become part of the country, instead of just looking at it out a window.

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Sunday, 28 February 2010 18:11

Vacationing like Brangelina

Volunteers with the group Globe Aware are digging a trench to lay a water pipe in Costa Rica.Sarah McCall / Globe Aware As the industry grapples with how to make money without compromising the results of the volunteer work, one thing is clear: more and more private citizens are ready to roll up their sleeves and lend a hand. "I was just so sick of just donating a gift at the end of the year," says Yates of his decision to spend a week volunteering in Costa Rica. "I worked my butt off."Getting in touch with your inner Angelina Jolie is easier than it used to be. The so-called voluntourism industry, which sends travelers around the globe for a mix of volunteer work and sightseeing,…

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KRASANG ROLEUNG, Cambodia - Andrew Krupp doesn't speak a word of Cambodian. And, for the most part, the dozens of happy-faced children racing across the dusty schoolyard to greet him don't speak a word of English. But that doesn't stop Krupp from winning them over immediately. It doesn't take much, after all, to get across the basics of the hokeypokey, which it turns out is just as big a crowd-pleaser in the poorest thatched-roof villages of Cambodia as it is in the manicured suburb near Chicago where Krupp lives. "I'm like a novelty act riding into town," says the 39-year-old manufacturing executive, laughing as his frenzied "right foot in" sends the children into hysterics. "Everybody loves a lunatic."

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Sunday, 28 February 2010 17:10

Voluntourism - Volunteering on your vacation

Some vacations allow travelers to give back while they're away. CNN's Heidi Collins explains.

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Sunday, 28 February 2010 16:37

Volunteer Vacation Primer

By: Manya Chylinski No longer on the fringes of travel, voluntourism has attracted increasing numbers of travelers looking to learn new skills, meet people, and give back to the global community. In a recent Travelocity poll, 38 percent of repondents said they planned to volunteer while on vacation; thats up from just 6 percent in 2006. "People tell me that a vacation with us is the most meaningful experience of their lives," says David Minich of Habitat for Humanity. Here's how to plan one.

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Sunday, 28 February 2010 15:42

The Trip that Changed My Life

"In Cambodia I discovered I don't have to change who I am to help others." - Brianna Castillo"My Ghana honeymoon taught me to slow down." - Michaela Mancusi

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