¡Saludos desde Guatemala! For the next several months, I will be living in Xela, Guatemala’s second largest city, and volunteering as a trek guide for Quetzaltrekkers, the only all volunteer-run, all non-profit outdoors organization in Central America. Quetzaltrekkers (QT) leads treks through som[...]
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June 20th, 2011 - 5:25 am § in Bolivia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Nonprofit Spotlight, Volunteer Spotlight
Quetzaltrekkers: Into the Clouds, Part 1
Three-thousand three-hundred feet below the mountaintop we will summit tomorrow morning, I sit in a small one-room house on a wooden chair fit for a person of childlike proportions. The house is lit by a single candle. The faces of my co-guide and our clients are illuminated by the flame’s orange [...]
Going Once, Twice, SOLD!
After combing the city for months looking for a health-oriented NGO, a friend pointed me towards Acción Solidaria, which focuses on providing education and resources to combat VIH/SIDA (that’s HIV/AIDS to all you English-speakers) in Venezuela and other Spanish-speaking countries. Nestled in[...]
March 22nd, 2010 - 12:51 pm § in Around Town, Colombia
Why, Hello Colombia! Very Nice to Meet You.
I woke up in Bogotá this morning, to a city of seven million and to day one of my time in South America. Instead of easing myself in or working myself up to photographing important things, I had the opportunity to jump right in. Thank God. Manuel, my roommate in Colombia, happens to be an accomplis[...]
Nerd Notes: Navigating New Ways of Living
I’m a straight up nerd. I love technology and am on an undying quest to expand people’s access to information. Moving to Guadalajara, Mexico from San Francisco, CA to get Adapting to Scarcity off the ground has proved to be an… interesting transition for me. For years I’v[...]
Volunteering 101: Interview Yourself
There’s been a lot of exciting dialogue lately on the blog about how to get started on an altruistic adventure in Latin America. I’d like to take a step back in the process, suggesting a few key questions for volunteers to answer before getting in contact with nonprofit organizations: What are t[...]
