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Why A Broader View?

A Broader View Volunteers offers project placements throughout the world to globally-minded individuals searching for a unique travel experience. Our programs grant you the opportunity for cultural immersion and the means to make a difference. Our projects are based in third world countries and our goal is sending capable hands-on voluntary support to create self-sustainable communities.

Our organization, A Broader View provides an opportunity to do something so rewarding, that we guarantee you will never forget it. Not only will you get the most fulfilling experience of your life, you will:

• Give something back to the less fortunate in the world
• Build your self confidence and independence
• Experience a whole new culture
• Gain foreign language skills
• Experience a new location from the inside out.
• Build your resume and gain work experience
• Discover hidden strengths and skills
• Expand your global horizons

A Broader View Volunteers is based on the idea that one person can make a difference. By donating your time and skills to a hands-on volunteer project at a grass roots level you too can make an immediate impact. We partner with local NGO’s, private institutions and community organizations throughout the world. An extensive amount of research and time go into each program to ensure the best quality and safety of our destinations, accommodations and projects. Project sites, housing and host families are continuously monitored. Our local partners, like ourselves, are dedicated to providing our volunteers with outstanding service; a quality project and 24/7 support. We work with local partners who are community activists knowledgeable in the needs of their society and offer insight and guidance to our volunteers.

ABV offers affordable program fees. We know you are donating your time and money to volunteer abroad. There are transportation costs, visa/vaccinations expenses to consider, then your everyday living costs while you're away. Since the living costs are generally very low in our host countries, our program fees reflect this. A Broader View strives to offer all people the opportunity to live and work abroad, to experience life from a different point of view and have a life-changing experience

A Broader View Volunteers provide a safe and unique opportunity to truly experience a new culture, learn a foreign language, make life-long friends, enhance your resume AND have a life-changing experience.

Why a Volunteer Vacation?

Volunteering while traveling abroad adds a satisfying dimension to your overall experience. Volunteering creates a feeling of personal satisfaction. It grants you a privilege not afforded to the typical tourist: a unique opportunity to experience local everyday life while making a positive impact. Volunteering abroad immerses you in a new culture which improves your language skills, gives insight of a culture from the inside out and hopefully broadens your view of the World.

Volunteering abroad can be both challenging and very rewarding. It takes a special kind of person and not all are suited for it. The lack of home comforts and infrastructure that many fortunate people brought up in developed countries take for granted can be a strain for some.

There are many cultural aspects that you may find unreasonable and puzzling, that you will need to adapt to. The hosting countries of our programs have vastly different practices, attitudes, approaches to life, and language(s). There is the inevitable culture shock of living and working in a non-western country which one can not really prepare for. If you see these new situations as exciting challenges to overcome, rather than barriers, you are on the right track for a successful volunteer program abroad.

Have you ever considered doing one thing during your life that would make a complete difference to a child less fortunate? Have you thought about volunteering – a week, a month or even a year – your time in an overseas orphanage or school? What might seem to you an insignificant amount of time means everything to a child with little – or nothing. If you answered yes to any of these questions, a volunteer vacation may be just for you.

Imagine this:

There are approximately 350 million child-slaves in the world; millions of war-victim children; and starving, abandoned little victims everywhere! The International Labor Organization estimates that 352 million or 23 percent of all children between 5 and 17 years of age were actively working in the year 2006. This is reality - perhaps not in America, Canada or the UK - for millions of children around the globe.

The amount of orphans in the world is staggering. In our host countries where we offer programs, there are over 200,000 Chilean orphans, over 2 million Peruvian street children living in extreme poverty, and an estimated 8 million AIDS orphans in Uganda, Kenya and Ghana.

According to the ONE campaign, "Around the world, more than 100 million children are not in school and more than 60 million of these children are girls. Whether a boy or a girl, every child deserves the chance to go to school and have a hopeful future."

Think about this:

• If you woke up this morning with more health than illness... you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.
• If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation...you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.
• If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep...you are richer than 75% of this world.
• If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace you are among the top 8% of the worlds wealthy.
• If you can read this message, you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world that cannot read at all.

The children of the world need our skills, spirit, time and support. You too can make a difference. There is only one world - and we are all in this together.

Volunteering can be an exciting, growing, enjoyable experience. It is truly gratifying to serve a cause, practice one's ideals, work with people, solve problems, see benefits, and know one had a hand in them.

“You have not lived until you have done something for someone
who can never repay you” Anonymous

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