Essential Tips for Traveling Alone
When you volunteer on a United Planet Quest, chances are you’re going to be doing some solo travel. In this post, Raquel Wilbun reflects on the experiences she’s had traveling…
Hope in the Most Simple of Places: China Summer Memories
16-year-old volunteer Diego Molina recently returned from four weeks of volunteering in rural China with United Planet’s China Summer Teaching Program. Diego and his fellow volunteers spent their time teaching…
How To: Tuck & Roll for Efficient Packing
The “How To” series will discuss important topics related to volunteering abroad and traveling in general. As you read on, the following will give you advice on “how to” do…
“Every Human Is Part Of A Community”: Long-term Volunteers Share Their Stories
Our most recent group of long-term volunteers returned from their pre-departure training weekend in New Hampshire just a couple of weeks ago. Now, most of them are just arriving in…
We Think The World Needs More #Community
Today is World Humanitarian Day, a United Nations-sponsored day observed every year on August 19th in remembrance of aid workers who have lost their lives providing service to communities around the…
What Can You Learn From Learning A Second Language?
Spanish is the second most common native language of the world, behind Mandarin. It is the predominant language of countries in Europe, Africa, the Pacific, and North, Central, and South…
