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Promoting Environmental Awareness in Burma — Participants at a meeting to discuss issues in rural Burma. - Kaelyn Lynch

Details: By Kaelyn Lynch; Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs

Kaelyn tries to create change by spreading environmental knowledge to remote communities of Burma.

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A Duty to Care: The ad-hoc humanitarian response in Lesvos, Greece — - Sam Mednick

Details: By Sam Mednick; Category: Volunteer Abroad

Are ad-hoc volunteers helping or hindering refugee relief efforts in Greece?

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Slowing Down in Guinea-Bissau — - pixabay.com CC0

Details: By Tom Collins; Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs

What does it mean to discount something as operating on "African time"?

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Spanish Language Learning 101 — - pixabay.com CC0

Details: By Alicia Williams; Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs

Three tools for learning a foreign language.

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Is Tourism a Political Act? Should It Be? — Two women stand on the beach in the Gambia. - pixabay.com CC0

Details: By Tom Collins; Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs

Tourism in Gambia exposes how prescriptions for Africa are only skin deep.

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How to Make Friends and Not Terrify People — Making new friends may involve hiking. You have been warned. - Adriana Montes Sánchez

Details: By Izabela Wlodarczyk; Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs

"Dos" and "don'ts" for building a community abroad.

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How to Volunteer at the Olympics—and Beyond — Olympian Kerri Walsh shakes the hands of volunteers during the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. - Craig Maccubbin CC BY 2.0

Details: By Sheila Taylor; Category: Volunteer Abroad

Let the games begin.

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3 Secrets to Surviving Life Abroad — Secret number one? Coffee. - pixabay.com CC0

Details: By Alicia Williams; Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs

How Alicia turned an interest in teaching into a Colombian adventure.

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Faith and Music in Senegal — Musician Cheikh Lo - Wikimedia Commons CC0

Details: By Tom Collins; Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs

How jazz and religion go together in Africa.

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