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Take the guess-work out of finding the right overseas teaching position with a good recruiting agency. If you’re considering teaching English abroad, trying to find the right position can be a daunting process. In some ways, just making the decision to...
- Type: Article
- Author: Zalina Alvi
- Category: Work Abroad
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How to successfully grow your own WWOOF trip—and find the farm of your dreams. From the first moment that we heard about the WWOOF program (World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms), we were hooked. For two young professionals in search of a break...
- Type: Article
- Author: Catherine Ellingson and Matthew Johnson
- Category: Volunteer Abroad
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Expert advice for breaking into a rewarding—and travel-friendly—career. At the age of 20, Colin Beckworth succumbed to his passion for travel—he dropped out of university, where he was studying photography, and set off on a four-year trip around the...
- Type: Article
- Author: Maia Gedde
- Category: Work Abroad
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Learn how you want, where you want. Emma Dines gets university credit for performing clown acts at Findhorn ecovillage in Scotland. The 24-year-old explains that she’s interviewing community members about group dynamics then creating clown acts which...
- Type: Article
- Author: Erin Moores
- Category: Study Abroad
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As volunteering overseas takes off, growing pains lead to new challenges for the field and for volunteers. When Zahara Heckscher stepped off her bus in Managua, Nicaragua, she had no idea what to expect. It was 1986, and after learning Spanish in...
- Type: Article
- Author: Jessica Lockhart
- Category: Volunteer Abroad
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An adventure in au pairing leads to a first-hand look at French culture, translation mishaps and… knife fishing? “Tu veux aller à la pêche aux couteaux?” Translation: “Do you want to go knife fishing?” I am about to ask my host dad, Laurent, what...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ann Wilby
- Category: Work Abroad
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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. Ivan Gayton arrived in war-torn Burundi with a background in tree planting and...
- Type: Article
- Author: Maureen Littlejohn
- Category: Work Abroad
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Coaching a sport can be a good means to travel and work in an area you are passionate about. One American football coach lands the perfect retirement gig in Europe. For George Contreras, it all started with the pursuit of some post-retirement adventure...
- Type: Article
- Author: Eric Slivoskey
- Category: Work Abroad
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There is no limit to the number of opportunities for the person who wants to work abroad. Depending on your talents, tenacity and where you want to find work, there are thousands of different ways to earn your keep, that can range from selling shave...
- Type: Article
- Author: Zalina Alvi
- Category: Work Abroad
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Igniting Reel Changehttps://www.studyandgoabroad.org/volunteer-abroad/626-igniting-reel-change
Native Bolivian communities fight for social change with the help of Quebec filmmakers. The corner room on the third floor of the Residencial Sucreis very different from the other rooms in this hotel in downtown Copacabana, Bolivia. Beds and furniture...
- Type: Article
- Author: James Stairs
- Category: Volunteer Abroad
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Employers, educators, government...nearly everyone acknowledges the benefits of studying abroad. So what's being done about it? We used to live in a world where you might know a guy who spent a semester studying abroad in London, Paris or some other...
- Type: Article
- Author: Verge Magazine
- Category: Study Abroad
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Vancouver’s Sol Guy is mixing music, celebrity and social activism to spark real change in the entertainment and non-profit worlds. Sol Guy is this year’s keynote speaker at the Toronto Go Global Expo, September 24-25, 2011. Meet Sol in person and hear...
- Type: Article
- Author: Andrea Gourgy
- Category: Why we travel
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And the winner is... "Lesson in Compassion Through the Eyes of Children" by Bruce Passmore. Congratulations! "Lesson in Compassion Through the Eyes of Children" Written by Bruce Passmore This is the true story of how two young street children in Lhasa,...
- Type: Article
- Author: Verge Magazine
- Category: PhotoPro
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A pain-free guide for travel martyrs. If you have travelled abroad in the past few years, you’ve met the travel martyrs. They are everywhere, and they will regale you with unsolicited tales of their epic selflessness. Like the time they walked barefoot...
- Type: Article
- Author: Eric Lewis
- Category: Beyond the Guidebook
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Unemployed youth in Lima get a leg up thanks to local volunteers and CUSO-VSO. Check out the feature article, photo gallery and video footage from the field. FEATURE ARTICLE> In poor districts of Lima, Peru, Youth Uneployment is high and job-hunting...
- Type: Article
- Author: Andrea Gourgy
- Category: PhotoPro
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Tools for Change in Peruhttps://www.studyandgoabroad.org/volunteer-abroad/600-tools-for-change
Unemployed youth in Lima get a leg up thanks to local volunteers and CUSO-VSO. Before 19-year-old Jackelinne Quispe-Brito first stepped into the youth employment centre in her hometown of San Juan de Miraflores—one of the poorest districts in the...
- Type: Article
- Author: Andrea Gourgy
- Category: Volunteer Abroad
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The things that make travel exciting can also be the most trying. Dr. Mark Wise shares his advice on how to even out the bumps. Volunteering for six months or more in a less developed country might seem like an idyllic adventure, but in reality, living...
- Type: Article
- Author: Dr. Mark Wise
- Category: Travel Health
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Cultural tourism, if done properly, can bring economic development to the poorest communities in Tanzania. A chant breaks the silence of a northern Tanzania rangeland. Soloists, in traditional Maasai regalia and dark sunglasses, belt out lyrics with...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mary Katherine Keown
- Category: Beyond the Guidebook
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Promoting public health in Guatemala by caring for man's best friend. Dedicated veterinarians work with a Guatemalan community to promote public health by taking care of "man's best friend." All night, strings of firecrackers and the yelps of dogs echo...
- Type: Article
- Author: David Waltner-Toews
- Category: Volunteer Abroad
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Travel to some of the world's most pristine landscapes—and help keep them that way. Around the world, governments and conservation agencies struggle to ensure that regions of wilderness, forests and marine sanctuaries are safeguarded in perpetuity....
- Type: Article
- Author: Susan Griffith
- Category: Volunteer Abroad
