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Travel Changes Everything: Giving Girls the Gift of Seeing the World
“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard It’s literally the ticket...
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Bringing Education, and Hope, to Cambodia’s Children
My "Trading Places" stories usually have to do with me experiencing life in another place. Today, however, I would like to reverse that and share the Trading Places story of...
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Top 5 Reasons to Volunteer on your Travels
This Sunday, I set out for my seventh trip to India, each of which has included a week's stay at a children's home in the northeastern state of Odisha. In...
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Cultivating Stillness
There is too much rushing: past myself, in the world around me, in my own thoughts. I lose my centeredness: agendas prevail, thoughts collide, my self becomes lost. I must...
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Passage to India
The idea of volunteering in another country has long been considered the province of students and recent graduates; images of intrepid twenty-year-old Peace Corps workers in a remote Sierra Leone...
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