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When you volunteer as part of your vacation, your trip takes on a whole new meaning. Voluntourism is a unique opportunity to contribute to the place you’re visiting while learning about and creating an individual connection with its inhabitants and environment – that’s why we call voluntourists "Change Ambassadors." This page is a chance for all Change Ambassadors to write about your experience and tell fellow travelers about the kind of impact voluntourism can have and what you learned along the way. Thank you for taking the time to share your story!
As an AmeriCorps volunteer this year, service projects are around every corner. For our 'Make a Difference Day' project, we distributed almost 1,000 bags to neighborhoods in Marysville, WA, with fliers. The fliers instructed participants to place food item donations in the bag and set out on October 25th, Make a Difference Day. My team picked up the bags all over Marysville and delivered them to t...
Annie S. (Washington, United States)
The town may be relatively small but the compasson was very large at the recent Make a Difference Day food drive in Tewksbury, Ma. Dozens of residents joined in the effort with the Rotary Club of Tewksbury and the Tewksbury Mail Carriers to help collect food for needy families. Residents were asked to leave food donations at their mailboxes where mail carriers could put up the bags of food during ...
Donna G. (United States)
We as a group of volunteer healing powers instructors decided to teach some day-today healthy meditation techniques to our community on Make A Difference Day. This 2 hour workshop helped teaching yoga, breath work, and meditation for health and wellness to the community. Teaching breath work can be used to lower stress and handle the mind and emotions for an improved health in a long run. ...
Tilottama B. (Fremont, California, United States)
I held my first Bone Marrow Drive in Connecticut at the Annual charity event I do at Fairfield University in Fairfield, CT this summer. The Drive was such a huge success thanks in part to teaming up with the Rhode Island Blood Center in Providence, RI that I decided to host another one for Make A Difference Day for all residents in Connecticut. With my charity experience and me spearheading th...
michael M. (Trumbull, Connecticut, United States)
This project, in conjunction with Say Detroit! is the opening of a homeless children free medical clinic. This truly unique facility will provide medical services to homeless medical children. Though not a hospital, this clinic will serve the homeless children population in urban Detroit. This clinic is needed because if a homeless family takes their child/children to a hospital and it's discov...
Joseph V. (Dearborn Heights, Michigan, United States)