Volunteering: a life time experience

Help others to have a better life in any way it is always a grateful experience, volunteering is incredible experience not only helps others but help yourself too. Worldwide, thousands of people can tell about how this experience changed their existence, even so many of them devoted their entire life to NGOs projects.

Teaching within education projects in poor areas in your own country, taking part in medical help projects in Asia or building water infrastructures in South America you could find how your work it is really useful for people who really need it and this make a change how you see the world and how to live your life.

Africa was a student from University of Barcelona. She spent 3 months in 2009 in Rúkara (Ruanda) working in a nutritional project based in a health center. She taught to children under 6 years old personal and food hygiene to prevent illnesses. After this time, Africa says “I loved this experience, it has enriched me not only as a professional but as a person too”.

Eavanna Maloney is a qualified Nurse that had been working in the health country for five years. Then she joined a TB/HIV awareness project in Knysna, South Africa. She claims now that she learned much more in five weeks there than in five years before and she describes her volunteer travel as an eye-opening experience.

Amber Hirschy, from Indiana, spent eleven months in Camodia volunteering in a local micro-credits company to help poor people to obtain financial resources. Talking about her service , she says “Living and working in Cambodia challenged me to see the world in new ways and to truly acknowledge the hardship and suffering that many people around the world face every day. Those eleven months were some of the most formative months of my life. I will never be the same…thankfully.”

Volunteers experience themselves how to serve others ways to serve ourselves too.




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