I am currently a college student from Missouri, United States. I have had a passion for Africa and its people since I was twelve. I wanted to go overseas to see how nursing and medicine differ in a different country and knew Tanzania was my calling.I started researching companies
lived in Sri Lanka for the first seven years of my life and had visited a couple times since then. I had always dreamt of going back and helping in any way that I could. Little did I know that making the decision to volunteer in Sri Lanka with Projects Abroad was going to become
It’s been a year since my trip with Projects Abroad to Costa Rica. I can’t even begin to explain how much I miss my placement, my host family and all the amazing people I was so blessed to meet. This is an unreal organization that not only makes you feel comfortable a
I had never been on a plane without my parents before. I hadn’t even been to Africa before and I had never been on a Projects Abroad trip or known someone that had been. But I signed up for the High School Special Childcare & Community with French in Togo after doing a lot
About MeMy love for travelling and nursing developed while I was completing my Bachelor of Science nursing degree. Within days of officially graduating, I was on my way to Ghana for six weeks to participate in the Public Health Project there. The decision to go turned out to be o
Being my first time leaving the United States, I took a lot of time to research different programmes that offered volunteering abroad. After emailing back and forth with a couple different groups, I finally decided to go with Projects Abroad to Nepal.From the very beginning Proje
When I signed up for the Care & Community Project in South Africa with Projects Abroad, I would be lying if I said I wasn’t extremely anxious. I had never flown by myself, let alone gone to a foreign country and stayed with a bunch of strangers from all over the globe.I had
I was extremely nervous about my trip to the Galapagos. Flying from England to Ecuador by myself seemed quite daunting, especially as a first time trip by myself. However, I had been fully prepared by my Volunteer Advisor and other members of staff from Projects Abroad with whom
After endlessly thinking of how I wanted to spend my summer holidays, I finally decided that I wanted to do volunteer work. After a few quick searches, Projects Abroad came up and I was immediately intrigued. At first, I had some trouble choosing a project, as Projects Abroad off
I chose to go to Argentina on the Human Rights & Spanish programme because of my keenness to explore Latin American and my passion for human rights. The course allowed me to explore and develop my knowledge of Spanish, which I was doing back home, whilst studying more about h
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