Spend Your Vacation Giving Back While Immersing Yourself in Another Culture

  Brazil

• Northern Brazil: 
Aracaju
• Southern Brazil: 
Canoas

  Cambodia

Siem Reap

  China

• Beijing: 
Beijing
• All Other Areas in China: 
Changzhou

  Costa Rica

• San Jose: 
San Jose
• Central Pacific Coast: 
Coronado

  Ghana

• Accra: 
Accra

  Jamaica

Rural Areas

  Laos

• Luang Prabang: 
Luang Prabang

  Mexico

Rural Areas

  Peru

• Cusco: 
Cusco
• All Other Areas in Peru: 
Huaraz

  Romania

Brasov

  Thailand

• All Other Areas in Thailand: 
Kanchanaburi

  Vietnam

• All Other Areas in Vietnam: 
Qui Nhon,  Hoi An

Duration of Program: 1-2 weeks

Description: Do you want a vacation experience that will enrich your life, increase cross-cultural awareness, and promote peace on earth? If so, a volunteer vacation might be just what you need to replenish your spirit while serving others, allowing you to give back on a global scale. Globe Aware, a 501 c 3 nonprofit charity organizes such programs in 15 countries around the world.

Globe Aware mobilizes short term volunteer programs, or adventures in service, which focus on promoting cultural awareness and sustainability and are often compared to a mini "peace corps" experience. The program fee covers all project materials, food, lodging, onsite transportation, medical insurance, and a bilingual volunteer coordinator to assist the volunteer throughout their program. In addition, the program fee and the airfare to get there are fully tax deductible to the full extent of the law.

Globe Aware is a member of International Volunteer Programs Association, Volunteers for Prosperity, the Building Bridges Coalition, has received United Nations Consultative Status for Social and Economic Council, among many other honors. Globe Aware also partners with the CarbonFund, a commitment that places Globe Aware as an environmental leader in the volunteer abroad community and demonstrates proactive steps being taken in the fight against global climate change.

You can volunteer in a children's home in Cusco, Peru, helping to break the poverty cycle for Peru's rural population, work building homes for Romania's impoverished Roma population, or help bring sustainable development to small villages in Costa Rica. The opportunities for service are endless and the destinations numerous. Visit Globe Aware today and begin your own adventure in service!

Qualifications: You need no special skills nor do you need to speak any foreign language. These programs are equally appropriate for the solo traveler to multi-generational family travel, corporate groups and more.

Cost in US$: Please visit our website.

Experience Required: no

Typical Volunteer: The typical Globe Aware volunteer is a busy, working professional between the ages of 25 and 45, who has very limited vacation time throughout the year, but has a real desire to contribute, give back, and make a positive difference in the world. Typically they have no particular specialised skills, nor do they usually speak other languages, but they have a willingness to learn and to teach, and are open to the culture around them.

Age Range: 25 and 45

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants. This Program is also open to Families and Individuals

Application Process Involves:

• Other
• Phone Interview
• Written Application

Post-Program Services Include:

• Exit Debriefing Abroad
• Alumni Network

Globe Aware's Mission Statement: Globe Aware seeks to promote lifelong advocates for a better world and to sustain the world's cultural and natural resources. The organization, together with the local community hosts, develops effective local solutions to global problems in non-religious, non-political, multi-international environments. The aim is to expand and foster cross-cultural peace and understanding between Americans and the rest of the world, to preserve culture and promote sustainability. Globe Aware expeditions provide volunteers the opportunity to live and work side by side with a host community. The hosts provide a safe and interesting setting in which to learn, help, and have fun. The volunteers help to empower the host communities in creating renewable, self-sufficient programs. While Globe Aware's financial assistance benefits the community economically, it is actually the involvement and collaboration between the volunteers and community that is the greatest mutual benefit.

Year Founded: 2001