Take a Volunteer Vacation and Help Rebuild After Hurricanes Maria, Irma and Harvey

Now is about the best time ever to take a volunteer vacation. 

Learn a new language. Or become more fluent in your less dominant language if you are already bilingual. The more people you can communicate with, the more valuable you are to working opportunities as well as opening yourself up to new people and cultures.  A friend of mine recently took a volunteer vacation where he taught English to orphans and abandoned children in Liberia. He said he enjoyed every minute and wants to do this every year, as he loved working with the kids. As he told me this story, his smile was at least a mile wide!

This same friend, Brad, gathered up money from all of us and took it to in person where he went to help however he could,  to the aftermath of the tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and now in Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico. What can we do? Volunteer vacations make the best memories, too.



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