Finding a Cheap Volunteer Abroad Program
How to Find a Cheap Volunteer Abroad Program You’ve decided to volunteer abroad. Great! But, after a few hours of searching, you realize that finding an organization and program in your budget is going to be a challenge. You’ve found many programs that interest you but they all cost a small fortune. Your not cheap, […]
Volunteerforever.com – Great Volunteer Fundraising Website!
Volunteer Forever – your spot for volunteer fundraising! The team at Volunteer Forever has put together a resource that is a must for anyone looking to do some volunteer fundraising. Volunteer Forever is a comprehensive online resource that helps volunteers find and fund their volunteer opportunities. The site has a clean and simple interface making […]
Tornadoes – Storm Chasing in Saskatchewan
Last week, I had two opportunities to go storm chasing in Saskatchewan, Canada (my home stomping ground). This is something I have been interested in doing for a while, but not something I would do on my own as that just seems ridiculous.
Through the world of Facebook, I saw that a friend of a friend (who I also knew, but now very well) was a storm chaser. I randomly bumped into him and asked if I could tag along sometime. He said he would let me know when conditions were right and a few weeks later I was riding shotgun (well, mostly in the back seat) with Nick Schenher and photographer Chris Graham.
Living on the Edge of Africa
There I was: getting stuck in a mud pit with a three-metre long crocodile, being slapped in the face by an elephant’s trunk, tracking and hand feeding an adult cheetah, being charged by a hormonal rhinoceros, pursued by a lioness with a windowless truck as my only protection and, of course, the biggest challenge of […]
Hanoi: A Vietnamese introduction
There is, whichever way you look at it, a certain stereotype that hangs over the Vietnamese, an air of almost continued fascination. Obliterated by an indiscriminate US bombing campaign and then realigned with free market principles in the late eighties it is, in almost every way, bewildering to experience. Unlike the Chinese to the north […]
Volunteering in Africa
Volunteering around the world is very different depending on where you are. The very idea of volunteering has a number of interpretations. In South and Central America I found that it was very easy to find volunteering opportunities that did not cost anything. You may have to pay for the cost of having you volunteer […]