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Tag: peace corps alternative

Home Posts Tagged "peace corps alternative" (Page 2)

It’s an “Xela-bration!”

July 5, 2012United Planetculture, Foreign Culture, gap year, gap year overseas, Guatemala, international volunteering, interview, local culture, organization, orphanage, peace corps alternative, Quest, Shelter, spring break, travel, traveling, United Planet, United Planet Ambassador Club, volunteer abroad, Volunteer in Guatemala, volunteer overseas, Volunteer Story, volunteer work, worldwide

Ben became a hero to young children and women at Fundacion Remar, an orphanage and shelter for mothers where he volunteered for two weeks.

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Inspired Abroad: A Volunteer’s Experience in Peru Reaffirmed a Career Goal

June 22, 2012United Planetdonation, gap year, international volunteering, non-profit, peace corps alternative, Peru, travel, traveling, United Planet, volunteer abroad, volunteer overseas, Volunteer Story, volunteer work, worldwide

Bearing witness to the birth of a child reaffirmed Lupita’s life goal of working in a delivery room.

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Practice for the Peace Corps: A volunteer’s experience in Nepal

April 19, 2012United Planetchildcare, education, gap year, international travel, international volunteering, Nepal, peace corps, peace corps alrernative, peace corps alternative, teaching, travel, United Planet, volunteer abroad, volunteer expierence, volunteer nepal, Volunteer Story

Robert, one of our volunteers, just recently returned from a United Planet quest to Nepal. He had originally planned on staying for three months, but he ended up extending his…

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Patagonia Attracts Volunteer to United Planet’s Chile Quest

February 17, 2012United Planetbackpacking, Chile, Foreign Culture, international volunteering, Latin America, local culture, non-profit, peace corps alternative, travel, traveling, United Planet, volunteer abroad, volunteer overseas, Volunteer Story, volunteer work

One of our volunteers, Paul, shares how he was able to fit in time to volunteer with United Planet while on a hiking trip this holiday season to visit Patagonia in Chile.

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Saluting volunteers everywhere on December 5

November 30, 2010United Planetinternational volunteering, Latin America, peace corps alternative, Peru, volunteer abroad, volunteer overseas, worldwide

On December 5, 2010, United Planet will join the chorus in singing the praises of volunteers everywhere in celebration of International Volunteer Day, designated by the United Nations in 1985 to recognize the immeasurable contribution volunteers make to communities throughout the world.

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Wonderful new opportunity to help children in cancer hospital in Tanzania

October 21, 2010United PlanetAfrica, culture, peace corps alternative, travel, United Planet, volunteer abroad

Hospitals are always places of hope and pain, illness and recovery, joy and sorrow. Make it a children’s hospital, and emotions run higher and deeper. Make it a children’s hospital…

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