Today’s guest post comes from Rob Gradoville, a current Kiva Fellow, Rotary Scholar, and Fulbright Fellow in Cusco, Peru. Since 2005, Rob has been thinking about the best way to provide the basic services that rural folks in the developing world want and need most: clean water and electricity.[...]
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November 23rd, 2011 - 6:00 am § in Careers, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Looking for Opportunity, Nicaragua, Peru, Tips & Resources, Volunteer, Volunteer Spotlight
Guest Post: To Kiva Fellow or not to Kiva Fellow, Eso e’ la pregunta. (Part II of III)
November 22nd, 2011 - 6:00 am § in Careers, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Looking for Opportunity, Nicaragua, Peru, Tips & Resources, Volunteer, Volunteer Spotlight
Guest Post: To Kiva Fellow or not to Kiva Fellow, Eso e’ la pregunta. (Part I of III)
Today’s guest post comes from Rob Gradoville, a current Kiva Fellow, Rotary Scholar, and Fulbright Fellow in Cusco, Peru. Since 2005, Rob has been thinking about the best way to provide the basic services that rural folks in the developing world want and need most: clean water and electricity[...]
The Adventure Illusion or: how I learned to stop thinking and just ride a bike
Today’s guest post comes from Casey Link. Casey is a software engineer who just can’t seem to stay in one place. Between stopovers at oases of Internet necessary for his work, Casey finds himself compelled toward that mysterious blue horizon. That compulsion has taken him across the USA,[...]
November 11th, 2011 - 5:00 am § in Good Ideas, Looking for Opportunity, Nonprofit Spotlight, Tips & Resources
Connecting the Least Connected (with people who can help!)
Today’s guest post comes from Kamiel Verwer on his start-up site KindMankind. KindMankind seeks to create a world in which tiny, struggling grass roots initiatives in poor areas get an equal chance to connect and can attract skilled, pro-active “changemakers” that support them on their[...]
How to Design a Great Volunteer Program?
In my experience, the topic of volunteering can be a highly contentious issue. This is mainly due to the fact that there are so many different models for such programs. So, I have recently been thinking about what makes a great volunteering programme and how to implement this at Latin American Fou[...]
July 10th, 2011 - 8:05 am § in Ecuador, Tips & Resources
3 Good Reasons to Learn Spanish
Last Tuesday I attended the weekly “Intercambio de Lenguas” (Language Exchange) here in Quito. Interacting socially in another language definitely put my Spanish to the test- outside of my work vocabulary, which is a lot of banking and microfinance language, I’m not quite as eloque[...]
May 23rd, 2011 - 6:30 pm § in Ecuador, Tips & Resources
‘Lone Travelers’ Part Four: Journey of Self
This post is in response to a recent series on traveling solo. For more of the series, check out Alex Harker’s post “Lone Travelers,” Kate Bennett’s “‘Lone Travelers’ Part Two: Lone and Liberated!”, or Luba Guzei’s “‘Lone Travelers[...]
May 20th, 2011 - 5:33 pm § in Mexico, Tips & Resources
Tired adventures in Diving
Who would have thought training to be a diving instructor would be so hard? We are well into our second week now and today we qualified as Rescue Divers. This is something that, if I wasn’t so tired, I would be over the moon about – perhaps tomorrow I will have the energy to celebrate it. As [..[...]
