GLOBE AWARE - ADVENTURES IN SERVICE
Volunteer Vacations
Volunteer vacations turn travel into a force for good, combining adventure with meaningful service. Also known as voluntourism or service vacations, these experiences let you support communities, protect the environment, and immerse yourself in new cultures. Whether teaching abroad or aiding conservation efforts, volunteer travel transforms your journey into a powerful way to create change.
Voluntourism
Do you love to travel? Do you want to make a difference in the world? Would you like to combine your vacation with a life and perspective-altering experience? If so, voluntourism may be for you.
"Voluntourism" combines the best intentions of the non-profit sector with the excitement of the tourism sector to create stimulating, service-oriented vacations.
Working Vacations
A working vacation abroad is a transformative experience that combines travel with purpose. Even a short-term volunteer adventure can shift your perspective, deepen cultural understanding, and create lasting impact. It’s an opportunity to contribute, grow, and find meaning while exploring the world in a way few experiences can match.
Globe Aware
Globe Aware, a nonprofit 501 (c) (3) develops short-term volunteer programs in international environments that encourage people to immerse themselves in a unique way of giving back. We have no religious or political affiliation. We accommodate small groups to special school/church/corporate groups of up to 300 participants. We work side-by-side as equals with communities working on projects of their choice and method.
What is our goal?
- To promote contact between people of different cultural and social backgrounds, breaking down linguistic and cultural barriers and creating and understanding an appreciation of others.
- To provide worldly education through experience. To enable volunteers to learn the positive effects of concrete action and to recognize the interrelationship between theory and practice.
- To provide an intercultural learning experience and the opportunity to explore a new country and a new culture more deeply and respectfully than as tourists.
- To integrate participants into the local community to learn from their hosts about the issues which concern them.
- To help develop small-scale infrastructure or environmental improvement, and or to preserve cultural heritage and traditions.
How We Do It
Destinations
Globe Aware trips are professionally planned and led. You do not need special skills or the ability to speak a foreign language. Globe Aware coordinators lay the groundwork prior to your arrival, accompany you during your volunteer vacation, and assist with transfers and departures.
Custom Group Trips
Globe Aware Adventures in Service offers a custom, safe, and fun way for schools and corporate groups to have fun and help people, as well as offer a tremendous opportunity to experience other cultures.
Donations
Globe Aware collaborates with both corporate and private groups to make a positive influence on communities worldwide. Our ability to achieve our objectives and assist numerous individuals is made possible through the generous financial and in-kind contributions from our many supporters.
Why Choose Globe Aware?
Globe Aware, a nonprofit 501 (c) (3) develops short-term volunteer programs in international environments that encourage people to immerse themselves in a unique way of giving back.
Every activity we engage in is intended to accomplish one of two things: promote cultural awareness and/or promote sustainability. For us, the concept of cultural awareness means to recognize and appreciate the real beauties and real challenges of a culture, but not to change it. The concept of sustainability is to help others stand on their own two feet; to teach skills rather than reliance.
Volunteers
Corporate Volunteer Vacations
With decades of experience leading groups around the world on short-term volunteer experiences, we create and manage volunteer abroad solutions for groups from 5 to 500 participants.
Community Service Hours
Many schools require students to complete a specific number of service hours to graduate, and college and university admissions offices look favourably on applicants who display a pattern of service.
Family Volunteering
Globe Aware has a long tradition of mobilizing volunteer programs around the world for families of all ages and sizes. For us, it is perhaps the most beautiful experience there is to have together.
Volunteer Groups
Globe Aware adventures in service offer a safe, fun way not only for schools and corporate groups to have fun and help people, but they also give families a tremendous way of experiencing life with the children of other cultures.
Years in Business
Legacy of volunteer travel success
Volunteer Travelers
Positive impact on communities around the world
Destinations
Charitable, volunteer projects around the world
Testimonials
Experience was amazing
Honestly, the whole experience was amazing - culture, volunteering, food, people. There was plenty of time to experience various tours and engage in the culture. The food was spot on, I really enjoyed having lunches and dinners with local families. And Federico was amazing!
Chad Jones - Orosi Valley, Costa Rica. April 2023
Remarkable experience
My volunteer vacation to Cambodia through Globe Aware was everything I hoped it would be and more. At first, I was a little apprehensive. given I was traveling alone to a foreign country. Those fears soon disappeared when I met Dine, our project coordinator, and my five team members.
Rebecca Radam-Collins, Cambodia, March 2012
Meaningful Experience
This is quite simply Globe Aware’s best program for people who love kids. I spent my work time, working hard! But during our free time, the kids found us and we had so much fun playing! The work project was meaningful because we could see the benefit of our work almost immediately!
Don Germaise, October 2022, Thailand Hill Tribes
