Volunteer Voices: Service Trip to Latin America (Part 3)
For the third and final post in the blog series from the Texas Tech students who volunteered in Costa Rica, here is Taylor’s post. She considers the whole group’s time…
Volunteer Voices: Service Trip to Latin America (Part 2)
To continue the blog series from the Texas Tech students who volunteered in Costa Rica, here is a post by Miranda. She talks about the rewarding experience of releasing turtles…
Volunteer Voices: Service Trip to Latin America (Part 1)
Over the next week, we will be highlighting some individuals’ experiences on a non-religious mission trip (aka a Service Trip) for college students to Costa Rica. These volunteers helped with…
Katie Kowalski’s Volunteer Abroad Story in Kenya!
Like many United Planet volunteers, Katie Kowalski felt unsatisfied at her corporate job. As a student, she dreamt of assisting the development of small businesses, but after five years she…
Gap Year: Five Reasons You Should Take One
1 Take the time to get to know yourself outside of the circumstances that define you. You owe it to yourself. It’s only a year. Twelve months. Three hundred and…
Meet Towsif, Global Health volunteer in Nepal
Towsif Aziz, a senior at University of North Carolina, Greensboro in pre-dental studies, returned in August 2016 from three weeks on a Global Health Quest to Nepal. “I met the most…
