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December 2008, The Guardian, the United Kingdom"Recession sends volunteer numbers soaring"
Projects Abroad, the biggest organiser worldwide of overseas volunteer work, has also seen a rise in inquiries in the last few weeks. "We are maintaining our normal level of student applications, but recently we've seen a noticeable increase in older people, or those with more skills and experience, getting in touch," says Dr Peter Slowe, Director of Projects Abroad."
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December 2008, Rochelle News-Leader, the United States"Trip teaches Wyatt to balance life"
The Rochelle Township High School senior acquired a taste for yams while fulfilling her love of public service last summer when she traveled to the Gulf of Guinea as a volunteer with Projects Abroad. She spent two weeks in Ghana, Africa, assisting families in a remote village building outhouses and making bricks, painting a school and volunteering in a city orphanage.
Projects Abroad arranges volunteer placements in 22 [sic] countries. They teach conversational English and gain experience in professions like medicine, conservation and construction. Volunteers range in age from 16 to 77.
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November 2008, The Observer, Australia"Schoolies no, orphans yes"
"The teenagers became involved in the project after contacting an organisation called 'Projects Abroad' which organises volunteering trips across 22 [sic] countries. The trip will be the first time overseas for James and Caitlin, and will see them working with about 40 orphans aged between four and eight years"
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November 2008, Lamar University News, the United States"Nursing major named inaugural David J. Beck Fellow"
"The fellowship will provide Mikel with a full academic scholarship for 2009 – including tuition, fees, books and on-campus room and board – along with up to $10,000 to pursue the summer project she proposed as part of her application. She plans to travel to Ghana where she will work as a nursing intern in a rural hospital and live with a host family for six weeks through Projects Abroad."
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November 2008, The Courier Mail, Australia"New Graduates don't mind the Gap"
"James Campbell finishes school at Churchie in Brisbane in a few weeks and hasn't made up his mind what he wants to do with his life. He's not concerned, though... 'I am going to be working a bit at the start, and then travel a bit, first to Tasmania because I have family there. I will then be coming back and working to save money for my trip to Peru. It's a volunteer project with Volunteers Abroad [sic]. Basically it's for people who want to volunteer their services to help a developing community.'"
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November 2008,NHK, Japan." 世界一周！地球に触れるエコ大紀行 "
("Around the world! Eco Trip touching the Earth")マヌー国立公園（世界遺産）は、アマゾン川源流のひとつマヌー川流域に広がる。コ
ンゴウインコやオオカワウソなど貴重な動物に出会う一方で、熱帯雨林の“恵み”を
生かしたアマゾンの生活も体験する。(World Heritage site Manu National Park stretches out to one of Amazon headstreams, the Manu river and its surroundings. You will encounter rare species such as the macaw or giant otter and be able to experience the Amazon life receiving the blessings of the tropical rainforests.) NHK - Japan Broadcasting Corporation - visits our Taricaya Lodge project, the first private rainforest reserve in Peru. They speak with Lodge Administrator Fernando Rosemberg about the work that goes on there.
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October 2008, Travel + Leisure, the United States"Great Humanitarian Trips Around the World"
"Nomad Community Outreach, Mongolia: Projects Abroad volunteers help nomad families with daily tasks like herding yaks and cattle, mucking out horse and camel enclosures, and milking sheep and goats. They also produce dairy products like butter and cheese, prepare meals, and play with the communities’ many children."
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October 2008 CNBC Europe"Squawk Box Europe"
Peter Slowe, Founder and Director of Projects Abroad, discusses bank capitalization and entrepreneurialism in the developing world.
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October 2008, The Statesman, Ghana"Volunteers Gain Valuable Experience"
"The international organisation, Projects Abroad, registered a growing number of over 800 volunteers in 2008 who spent some free working months in Ghana, often combined with travelling around on the weekends.
During their time they are either staying with a Ghanaian family..."
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August 2008, The Times Online, the United Kingdom"How I made it: Peter Slowe, founder of Projects Abroad"
"As the number of youngsters signing up grew, Projects Abroad widened its scope to Africa, Asia and Latin America. Today its gap-year travellers help out in ever more diverse activities such as teaching in local schools, helping small enterprises with basic IT, assisting the RSPB with conservation projects and establishing a youth football academy in Ghana."
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August 2008, Burton Mail, the United Kingdom"Moving experience for Rebecca"
"The 16-year-old, from Hermitage Park Way, Newhall, spent two weeks in the African country's capital, Accra, after raising £2,000 to fly out on July 19 with Projects Abroad, one of the world's leading organisers of volunteer placements overseas."
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July 2008, KC Community News, the United States"Louisburg Woman Explores Beyond the Great Wall"
"After doing 'a ton' of research in her quest to go to China, Fleming said she found a British company, Projects Abroad, that pairs young adults with others in countries to do volunteer work and internships, like teaching English and practicing medicine, law and business concepts."
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July 2008, IOL, South Africa's biggest news network"Refugees Bear Brunt of Weather Woes"
"Days of heavy rain have turned the refugee camp at the Youngsfield Military Camp in Wynberg into a muddy quagmire. Water is pouring into the tents from the roof and seeping up through the ground, adding to the misery of the 600-odd refugees, among them a four-day-old infant....Leo McAuley, a volunteer from Northern Ireland with Projects Abroad, who is helping monitor the camp for the SA Human Rights Commission, said the situation was a 'bit surreal."
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July 2008, Bush Radio 98.3, South Africa"Sikhisizwe - Building the Nation"
"Today we spoke to Dana Myers – from Project Abroad. We were talking about their Human Rights placements. This project gives volunteers the opportunity to work on a really worthwhile project alongside respected humanitarian organisations, whilst also gaining first hand experience of human rights law in practice."
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June 2008, The GuardianJournalism, Mongolia
Based in Ulaanbaatar, your journalism internship in print, radio or TV will give you experience in a media environment that has flourished since the introduction of democracy in 1990. You might be asked to write a column in the English section of a national paper, front a radio chat show and gain experience behind the camera, directing or presenting the news.
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June 2008, Welwyn & Hatfield TimesAS a regular volunteer for a charity, Sarah Phillips knows exactly what it means to lend a hand. But she is taking her kindness one step further and has gone to offer help in Ethiopia for two months. The 35-year-old, of Digswell, flew out on Sunday to work in an orphanage looking after babies and toddlers, as well as teaching English to three- to six-year-olds.
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March 2008, The AgeLiving with a local family, sell organic fertiliser at the weekend market, play cricket with the kids and spend weekdays helping out at a model farm in the village of Tamil Nadu. This volunteer-run demonstration site in south India is a place for villagers to learn about sustainable farming practices, environmental conservation and new farming techniques and technology. After mastering the practices themselves, volunteers then work with villagers at the farm to help implement the ideas in their own communities.
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December 2007, The Times, the United Kingdom“Warsi Moves From Teddy to Dragon”
“Warsi and entrepreneur Caan – who left Pakistan at the age of two and is now chief executive of Hamilton Bradshaw, the private equity firm – are to work closely with Projects Abroad, which sets up overseas placements for volunteers on gap years or career breaks.”
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The Real World MagazineHannah Lane - Projects Abroad
Hannah is in her final year of a communication studies degree at Sheffield Hallam University. She took a gap year between A-levels and starting university. Through Projects Abroad she went to Ghana for three months. Most of her time was spent working in an orphanage. For the rest of the time she was working in a school: teaching, dancing, singing and generally keeping the children entertained.
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December 2007, The Sydney Morning Herald, Australia"School's out, travel's in"
"Projects Abroad is another good online resource, especially for gappers looking for a volunteer expedition. It offers a heap of different experiences and provides online application forms to get the ball rolling.
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The Projects Abroad website has details of holidays including a Mexican turtle conservation project and fossil digging along the Inca Trail to Peru. Whether you'll be painting classrooms in a school or harvesting tomatoes in a remote field, the website gives you a good indication of what you've signed up for. " -
September 2007, The London MetroCase study – Physiotherapist - Theresa Mohan
I’d already graduated from Keele University with a degree in physiotherapy and been working as a physio for just over a year at Wolverhampton City Primary Care Trust when I went to Nepal for four months. I went to Nepal with Teaching & Projects Abroad
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July 2006, BBCVolunteering Abroad
Projects Abroad - http://www.projects-abroad.org/
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They offer a diverse range of teaching, care, conservation, medical, journalism and work experience projects, plus the opportunity to become part of one of our local communities overseas -
October 2006, BBC
Travels in India
India is a country I have long wished to visit. The culture, geography and the history intrigue me. I came across Projects Abroad at a Gap Year fair hosted by the university. I applied to a Projects Abroad placement working for a monthly magazine (The Sivakasi Times) in Sivakasi in the state of Tamil Nadu.
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July 2007, The Guardian
Volunteering with 'Projects Abroad'
My personal experience of volunteering was when I spent three months in India after school. I worked in a junior school, and since it turned out I wasn’t a great teacher I spent my time teaching the two weakest kids basic English and maths. This placement was arranged by a gap year company (Projects Abroad) and I decided to go away with a company because both me and my parents wanted the secure ‘safety net’ these companies provide.
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March 2007, Fine Living (TV Channel)The Great Adventure
info@projects-abroad.orgwww.projects-abroad.org Programs include areas of teaching, medicine, conservation, journalism, care and community action, veterinary medicine, business, archaeology and Inca projects. Volunteers are ages 17-70, with the average age 18-25.
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March 2008, Elle, France"Je Veux Voyager Autrement!"
"Vous souhaitez vous offrir une parenthèse utile? Goûtez à la logistique des Grenoblois de Projects Abroad.Ils proposent des missions de volontariat ouvertes à tous et extrêmement variées : projet humanitaire en Inde,protection de l'environnement en Afrique du Sud,enseignement au Nepal ou encore archéologie sur les sites incas au Pérou.Les volontaires choisissent leur date de départ,la durée (1 mois minimum),la destination et le projet."
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"I want to travel overseas!"
"Do you want to do something useful during your break? Try the destinations Projects Abroad in Grenoble has to offer. They have a variety of volunteer opportunities ranging from volunteer work in India, conservation in South Africa, teaching in Nepal, and excavating Inca sites in Peru. Volunteers choose their departure date, the length of stay (one month minimum [sic]), the destination, and project."
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July 2007, The San Francisco ChronicleVacations making a difference
Besides a variety of service work in Guadalajara, Projects Abroad offers the opportunity to learn traditional Mexican craft techniques…"It put me in touch with my creative side, because I'm a science person. I used to be into art when I was young and, sure enough, I love it once again," said current volunteer Marcie Roberts, of King of Prussia, Penn. Roberts also works half a day in an orphanage and says being with the kids is "an amazing eye-opener . ... I feel like I'm making their lives a little better. I just don't know how the orphanage would function without volunteers."
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November 2006, The New York TimesReaching Out Over There
Other groups offering service programs abroad include Global Service Corps , globalservicecorps.org; Cosmic Volunteers, cosmicvolunteers.org; Global Citizens Network, globalcitizens.org; and Projects Abroad, projects-abroad.org.
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September 2006, The Vancouver SunVolunteer medic finds no room at UBC
When did they start making kids like Mohit Singh? …Through Projects Abroad, he volunteered in a hospital for two months and helped build houses for tsunami victims for the last month. Almost immediately he was taking blood samples and blood pressure. By the end of two months, he'd helped deliver babies, put in sutures and even induced labour, which is apparently a necessity in the over-crowded, under-staffed obstetrics ward.
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NewsweekPursch in Shanghai, by Samuel Pursch
Through a gap-year company called Projects Abroad, I found a journalism internship with Shanghai’s main English-language business magazine, BizShanghai. Along with 25 or so other interns around, I experienced life in one of the world’s fastest-growing metropolises.
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January 2007, Newsweek
The Good Life
Projects Abroad organizes trips to remote Mongolia, where volunteers live in ger s--large round tents--and become part of a nomadic family by helping take care of livestock like yak and cattle (projects-abroad.org ). The organization also has a program in Addis Ababa where volunteers teach English in primary and secondary schools. They stay with local families and receive briefings on teaching techniques.
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August 2007, The IndependentHow a gap year at a foreign newspaper could give you invaluable experience
"The placement gives volunteers the chance to learn about journalism, to see if they like it or not," says Erin Chalfant, managing editor of south India's Sivakasi Times, one of the magazines set up by Projects Abroad. "They have the opportunity to learn more about the community - going out on interviews really gets them beneath the surface of the town."
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September 2007, The OC RegisterNo waves in Mongolia
[Volunteer Jena Sussex] spent more than two weeks in Mongolia, living with a family and volunteering in a pediatric intensive-care hospital. Instead of riding waves, she spent most of her days feeding babies through intravenous tubes and shadowing Mongolian doctors to see how they work. This was the second summer Sussex has done volunteer work through Projects Abroad.
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November 2007, The Lariat OnlineProgram offers another chance to study, volunteer abroad
Projects Abroad, an England-based volunteer group, held an interest meeting Monday in the Baylor Sciences Building. Program adviser Jacob Lowe spoke to students about Project Abroad's goals, which are helping others, helping students learn and exploring new places.
The group sends around 3,500 volunteers out each year. About half of the volunteers are from England and the rest come from the United States and other countries all over the world.
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October 2007, The TuftsdailyIn Our Midst - Tufts Medical School student finds professional clarity through volunteerism in Nepal
In the midst of a spell of some serious career-based reservations, [volunteer Tran] Ly made the decision to spend five weeks as an assistant at the NOH this summer through a program with Projects Abroad, a New York-based international organization that sends college students on work-experience and volunteer-based projects around the globe.
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October 2007, The Dec OnlineEager to lend a hand
College students today seem more enthusiastic than ever to help those in need, due in part to growing knowledge about troubles worldwide. Additionally, service abroad attracts a great deal of attention from students interested in traveling to an exotic locale. Projects Abroad, an international organization aimed at sending students around the world to volunteer, understands the call to action.
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October 2007, The MetropolitanProjects Abroad: An exciting new opportunity for Metropolitan State University students
Projects Abroad recognizes the importance of learning about different cultures, gaining real-world experience and helping out across continents. It is from these ideas of global exchange and assistance that Projects Abroad was created. They are a premier international volunteering service in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, France, Germany and the Netherlands sending over 3,500 volunteers a year to 20 countries on five continents.
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September 2007, University ChronicleStudents assist while overseas
Looking for a great resume booster? Why not study abroad?
Rather than just studying abroad, Project Abroad allows students to also volunteer in hospitals, schools, community service and other fields of interest.
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February 2006, Centre CollegeInternships in focus: Journalism in Romania
The program I worked through was called Projects Abroad, which has a number of projects in several different countries. I chose to go to Romania. The office I worked at was in Brasov (the old city, built by Saxons, brought over by a Hungarian) on Casteluli St. I lived in the new city (built during the Soviet era) on Bulevardul Muncii. There I wrote for a local traveler's magazine called the Brasov Visitor. This entailed reviews of cafes, interviews with locals and travelers, and opinion- and fact-based articles.
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October 2007,Western Regional NewsSeasonal activity in the bird community
La Reserva Privada 'Taricaya' is a private reserve located in the eastern margin of the lower Madre de Dios River, at an altittude of about 170 m, in the Madre de Dios Region of southeast Peru. The dynamics of seasonal activity in the birds of the under-story were investigated between Jul 2005 and May 2006 in six different habitats of varying succession that are subject to different levels of seasonal flooding.
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June 2006, Business Week, the United States"Volunteer Vacations: Going Native"
"Conservation in Peru is a project for the more adventurous. Access to the lodge is a two-hour riverboat journey from the town of Puerto Maldonado. You will be living with up to 30 other volunteers and a resident spider monkey! Taricaya lodge is basic, but clean and comfortable."
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