Unlike a lot of volunteers in Latin America, I didn’t come down here specifically to find a volunteer position. Sure, I was planning on getting involved in the community and volunteering my time wherever I ended up, but the plan was to end up with a paid job, and then figure out the rest from [...]
Posts Tagged ‘conservation’
February 3rd, 2011 - 10:56 am § in Good Ideas, Guatemala, In the Field, Nonprofit Spotlight, Uncategorized, Volunteer
All that Glitters is Not Gold (sometimes, it’s recycled bottles)
A development worker’s dream is a program that both reaches the immediate needs of the community, contributes to the long-term progress of the community, involves and gives ownership to the community itself, and in the best-case scenario, has benefits that expand beyond the community and gives bac[...]
April 26th, 2010 - 6:08 pm § in In the Field, Nicaragua
Water is What Water Does
Last Thursday, Earth Day celebrated all methods to conserve our natural resources and how we as citizens of the world can help do so. One of the surprising facts I’ve learned while volunteering with blueEnergy is how desperate developing nations have become for clean, filtered and pure sources of [...]
Resourcefulness and Ingenuity
Feeling inspired by tacogirl’s post on Monday about the children in Belize who are living in a “different, more simpler way,” I would like to elaborate on her insight and talk about how I have been continually impressed with how this simple life often leads to a heightened ability for resource[...]
