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A Duty to Care: The ad-hoc humanitarian response in Lesvos, Greece

Details: Written by: Sam Mednick; Category: Volunteer Abroad

Are ad-hoc volunteers helping or hindering refugee relief efforts in Greece?

Seduced by Good Intentions

Details: Written by: Ben Losman; Category: Volunteer Abroad

Planning to change the world? This veteran development worker says pitch the pretence and pack your humility.

Travel Arrangements for International Development and Relief Agencies and Volunteers

Details: Written by: Verge Magazine; Category: Latest program news & sponsored content

Since 1949, Raptim Travel has pioneered humanitarian travel, forging the way for humanitarian organizations to deliver care where it’s needed most.

McGill Executive Program in International Development

Details: Written by: Verge Magazine; Category: Latest program news & sponsored content

The essential course to prepare professionals for work opportunities and careers in international development - October 27-31, 2014

Humanitarian Aide: Doctors Without Borders Veteran, Richard Zereik

Details: Written by: James Stairs; Category: Work Abroad

Born into war in Lebanon, Doctors Without Borders veteran Richard Zereik knows what it means to be a refugee.

Moving Mountains in Nepal

Details: Written by: Tim Koehn; Category: Beyond the Guidebook

Faced with insurmountable poverty, there's little that many Nepalis can do to elevate themselves. Against the odds, Vishu Sijali is trying to change that.

Moving mountains in Nepal
One man's remarkable efforts to bootstrap his community in the face of crushing poverty.

Butterfly Farming: Giving them Wings

Details: Written by: Rachel MacNeill; Category: Work Abroad

How the Zanzibar Butterfly Centre is empowering rural farmers to build their own businesses.

The Business of Butterflies
The Zanzibar Butterfly Centre empowers rural farmers to build their own businesses.

Why Overseas Non-Profits Want International Volunteers

Details: Written by: Jessica Lockhart; Category: Volunteer Abroad

Is international volunteering just an ineffective indulgence for rich North Americans? Not according to new research by Dr Erin Barnhart.

Why overseas non-profits want international volunteers
Optimistic findings from the first in-depth study of volunteers' overseas footprint.

Developing an International Internship Workplan

Details: Written by: Camaro West; Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs

How to hit the ground running in a developing country.

Game Changers: National Geographic Emerging Explorer, Josh Thome is 4Real

Details: Written by: James Stairs; Category: Why we travel

It's not about celebrity; it's about change.

Goat Lending NGO Empowers Ugandan Women

Details: Written by: Rocky Lis; Category: Volunteer Abroad

An innovative livestock lending brings farming into the 21st century.

International Volunteering: State of the Nation

Details: Written by: Jessica Lockhart; Category: Volunteer Abroad

As volunteering overseas takes off, growing pains lead to new challenges for the field and for volunteers.

Work Abroad in International Health Care

Details: Written by: Maia Gedde; Category: Work Abroad

Expert advice for breaking into a rewarding—and travel-friendly—career.

The Business End of the Shovel

Details: Written by: Maureen Littlejohn; Category: Work Abroad

Non-medical personnel are essential to medical missions and relief work around the world. A former tree planter becomes part of the solution as a logistician with MSF.