“Today marks the conclusion of my first week of the Agroforestry and Environmental Development internship in Ecuador. I am astonished at how much experience I have gained and how much of an adv...
By: Katya Trousset Project: Medical Internship in Nepal
Day 1 - 6.11.15
So I’m finally here. Bag-less, but relieved.
My journey started at 4am on Saturday, in order to make it to PDX security by 5:30. By the way, that is way too effing early. ...
By: Adam Nunez Project: Dolphin Research Internship in Greece
I participated to the Dolphin Research Project in the Marine National Park of North Sporades in the first week of September. It all started at the beginning of the summer, I was looking for a job...
By: Rebecca Lehman Project: Marine Conservation & Research Internship in Thailand
“CORE sea has been an incredibly inspiring and formative experience for me. From the moment I arrived, I was “welcomed into a family of people who care deeply about the work they do, and each...
By: Arnau Argemi Project: Dolphin Research Internship in Greece
"For the summer of 2016, I decided I wanted to do participate in a volunteering program somewhere in Europe. Since I was twelve and became a scuba diver, Greece had become one of my top...
By: Brooklyn Foucault Project: Marine Biology Course in Italy
Day 2
Tuesday the second day on the boat we left Casamacciola for Ventotene west of Ischia. Along the way we listened for whale and dolphin noise using the hydrophobic. Gaia explained to me ho...
Every single aspect of this project impacts its community directly. The minute that we provide them with payment, they send that money all over the community: to build schools, to provide supplie...
By: Elizabeth Moyer Project: Ecuador: Amazonian Traditional Medicine
Google is a saint. I remember sitting down in my living room, stressed out about all the pressure I felt to pursue more schooling after I just finished sixteen years straight of intense schooling...
By: Project: Buddhist Monastery School Teaching in Myanmar
Sophy Mesa- Report #2
"Last week of the program and a mix of feelings experienced. I have been teaching 5 hours to 6 hours per day every day from Monday to Friday for the last 4 weeks. When I ca...
By: Maeve Kiley Project: Environmental Conservation Intern in Peru
Over the past two weeks I have had an incredible opportunity to travel to Lobitos, Peru for an internship with this NGO. Lobitos, which is a military province of Talara had originally been deve...
By: Thibault Lebosse Project: Urban Environmental Volunteer Program in Brazil
"The environmental project spanned four different locations in Rio;
On Monday we were in a community garden in a favela where we helped volunteer Brazilians plant plants and remove i...
By: Erika Shook Project: Costa Rica: Environmental Research Internship
"This was one of the most amazing experiences I have ever had! The farm was beautiful and truly felt like home even though I was only there for a short period of time (2 weeks). I wish I could ha...
By: Hannah Elzinga Project: Costa Rica: Environmental Research Internship
"Being an Environmental Research Intern for two months was truly a life-changing and eye-opening experience. I found this internship because I was looking to do something good for the planet whil...
By: Maria Lemmond Project: Costa Rica: Environmental Research Internship
Through out my duration at this project, I had a very challenging yet rewarding experience that has forever changed me for the better and i would gladly do it again. The internship itself was bot...
By: Hannah Project: Equine Therapy Internship in Trinidad & Tobago
"My 2 week placement at Healing/Being With Horses was so much more than I could have expected. Throughout the week different organisations bring children and adults with varying disabil...
By: Kateřina Milerová Project: Agroforestry & Environment in Ecuador
"My 2-month internship with Los Aliados has been a great journey of learning about myself, the environment, different cultures and learning to stay “tranquila” in all possible situations that...
I have just completed my four week teaching program in Fiji. For my first experience, I could not have chosen a better location. What a gorgeous place. The Fijian people are also incredibly...
By: Kat Holland Project: Photography & Journalism Internship in Argentina
"The project I was working with consists of a small operations team and working with them on various communication projects ranging from blog writing and photography to document...
By: Evan Powell Project: Renewable Energy in Nicaragua
"I volunteered with Grupo Fenix for two months this summer in Sabana Grande, Nicaragua, and greatly enjoyed my time there. After spending two weeks at a Spanish School brushing up on th...
By: Jessica McGovern Project: South Africa: Anti Rhino Poaching Project
I have always known that two of my greatest passions are making a difference to the world we live in, and animals; animals of any size or shape, even if they’re not cute and fluffy. After leavi...