Jan

29

Dean Estrella - My Experience Teaching English In Costa Rica With Volunteer Visions

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January - March 2007Here I am, sitting in the cold surroundings of my native country, Canada. As I stare at my darkened skin, my four office walls and the pile of work that has compiled over the last five weeks, all I can do is daydream of the life that I left behind only four […]

Jan

25

Commmunity Development In Costa Rica - A Volunteer’s Journey

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- Waking up to the crisp sound of a rooster just outside the window, bike riding along the seascape, learning the art of surf, teaching English to the locals, and making an impact on the hearts of others. -
Kelly Thompson
I arrived in Samara, Costa Rica with a nervous anticipation of the unexpected. […]

Jan

25

News From India

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1. Do you have any new projects in development?
 
There are few projects under development. We will let you know when we start accepting volunteers on those projects.
 
3. Do you have any volunteers currently working in your project? What
is the average number of volunteers at any given time?
 
We do you have volunteers currently working and the […]

Jan

25

News From Our Costa Rica Ecological Farming Project

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Do you have any new projects in development?
 
Yes we have some projects in development. We plan to build a new biodigester, wind mill, and classroom.
 
 
 
 
2. Has anything exciting or new happened in the past few weeks?
Yes we built a Fish Pond for Tilapia Fish.
 
 
 
 
3. What […]

Jan

23

News From China

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Do you have any new projects in development?
All our projects are teaching placements in the city of Yantai, China
 
How Many Volunteers ?
We have no volunteers in China at the moment as Chinese New Year is coming up when all the schools are closed
 
There is an average […]

Jan

23

Website is Back Up!

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To all who visited our website in the past 3 days,
We apologize for the downtime and bizarre lack of formatting on our website. If you are reading this now, you will notice that the problem (after much scrambling) has been resolved (minus one navigation bar on the homepage).
This is the first time that we have […]

Jan

21

Together We Achieve More; Helping Flood Victims

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Two volunteers, Robin and Breanna, and I are about to take the bus for a fun weekend excursion in Nicaragua. It is October. It is the rainy season. It is raining again and since the six am bus never came, we enjoy chatting an extra hour until the next bus comes while […]