Tips for Your First Time Abroad
Going abroad for the first time – especially on your own – is a lot to think about. Between figuring out everything you need to bring, deciding exactly what you…
Going abroad for the first time – especially on your own – is a lot to think about. Between figuring out everything you need to bring, deciding exactly what you…
At the end of May, I had the great pleasure to travel on a Quest to Ecuador with a group of 12 volunteers from Louisiana State University. Because I work…
Vaidehi, a junior at Lehman College in New York, cannot wait to start her month long Speech Therapy Quest and independent research study in Ecuador. She has lived all over the…
Holly Hornbeck is our Campus Outreach Intern at Bowdoin College and a previous United Planet volunteer. Below, she shares her United Planet journey – and what, in her eyes, set it…
Best friends Michaela and Rachelle, both students at Boise State University, are going on a month long Quest to Peru this summer. Both Michaela and Rachelle are…
This post is written by Zachary Brown, a United Planet volunteer and current senior at the University of Central Oklahoma. He has volunteered with United Planet in both South Africa and…
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