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Two volunteers in Asia: Challenging comfort zones and getting used to new places

November 10, 2010United PlanetAsia, Cambodia, international volunteering, Nepal, United Planet, volunteer abroad, Volunteer Story, volunteer work

This week we heard from Ben, who’s in Nepal on a Long-term Quest; and from Michelle, who just returned from a four-week Quest to Cambodia. Both have been working in orphanages and maintaining lively blogs. Great reading, touching stories.

Getting ready for Mongolia-U.S. exchange!

November 9, 2010United Planetorganization, Team Stories, travel, United Planet, worldwide

The wonderful exchange between public schools in Mongolia and Boston will take place in 2011. Fifteen students and teachers from each country will have their minds and hearts opened by traveling to the other country, living with families, touring historical sites, and exchanging information about media in a civil society. These folks will travel free of charge, thanks to a grant from the U.S. State Department Bureau of Cultural and Educational Affairs – surely giving them a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

United Planet is honored to be the organization chosen to implement this program on the ground in Mongolia and in Boston, MA. But what a task! We have to train teachers, interview students, locate host families, consider translation challenges – and learn loads and loads!

United Planet. First line of a haiku.

November 4, 2010United Planetessay, international volunteering, United Planet

Goat head. Buttermilk.
Ladies served these things to me.
I ate them. Gladly.

“Warm yurts, warm people.” Notes from Mongolia

November 4, 2010United Planetchildren, Foreign Culture, Team Stories, travel, traveling, United Planet, Volunteer Story

United Planet Vice President Theresa Higgs has been in Mongolia recently, getting ready for the amazing exchange we’re organizing between public high school students in the U.S. and Mongolia. Here in the office, we’ve been learning a lot about Mongolia – what a fascinating place! We were delighted to get her notes about the realities of life there.

Taking international aid into your own hands with the “D.I.Y. Foreign-Aid Revolution”

October 25, 2010United PlanetAfrica, Elizabeth Scharpf, International Aid, Lisa Shannon, Maggie Doyne, Nicholas Kristof, United Planet, volunteer abroad

Nicholas D. Kristof’s op-ed piece “D.I.Y. Foreign-Aid Revolution” offers insight into the efforts of a few “passionate individuals with great ideas” who are working to “help the world’s most vulnerable…

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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Two volunteers in Asia: Challenging comfort zones and getting used to new places

Getting ready for Mongolia-U.S. exchange!

United Planet. First line of a haiku.

“Warm yurts, warm people.” Notes from Mongolia

Taking international aid into your own hands with the “D.I.Y. Foreign-Aid Revolution”

Wonderful new opportunity to help children in cancer hospital in Tanzania

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