www.globalvolunteernetwork.com
The program I worked with to find my program in Peru is an interconnected network of volunteers seeking to provoke change in the world. It has a collective total of 3,020,100 service hours, 20,134 volunteers and has raised over 2.5 million dollars. Their products reach the forests depths of Nepal and stretch back to the shores of Costa Rica. This is a non profit, which is exactly what I wanted to find. These diverse series of individuals work together to stitch together wounds of the world. The Organizations name is Global Volunteer Network. A collection of individuals working together to create a positive opportunity, connecting people from different ends of the world to create change. But let's go back a little further in the lapse of time. http://www.globalvolunteernetwork.org/ The burning glow of my Dell laptop burned through the fragile layers of my eyes. I reloaded page after page, desperately trying to find an organization that would take me. This was my dream, since I was a child I wanted to travel to distant lands and build up homes from the rubble of ashes for those less fortunate than me. To save animals and children, and touch the world with a bit of love. It shouldn't be this hard to be kind I thought to myself. Africa was a bust, my mom wouldn't let me go. The wars, diseases and dangers, it was too much for her to handle. And then I landed on Global Volunteer Network's site. I rested my eyes on the welcoming home page and scrolled through the contents of the neatly compiled website. When I saw the Peru trips, my heart immediately opened up. I knew this was the place for me. I touched the children looking back on me through the flat place of the electronic screen. I wanted to reach through it and enter their world. That's exactly what I did. My mother and I worked endlessly to fill out paperwork. I was going to experience the world wearing a new lens, a perspective of a privileged girl immersing herself in the culture of Cusco, Peru. Though my tongue could barely speak any Spanish, and I had never been out of the country, I'm an outgoing Sagittarius, and I couldn't wait to break free of my current societies cage. And I was scared as hell, of course. That's natural, right? I'm an unstable individual who has never ventured in a strange, new place on my own before. I was worried an existential crisis will fill the void of my soul and I would lose myself in the process of saving others.
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Animas High School students have the profound opportunity to dissolve into their passions for three weeks. This is through the LINK Internship that Animas High School offers. For a total of 21 days, juniors are allowed to go anywhere in the WORLD to intern in a field they hope to love or explore.
We first set down a general idea of our likes, where we want to go and what we're seeking. From there, students find organizations, companies or local stores to contact. This is part of finding a mentor, someone who will take you under their wing to give you a taste of what they do. Honestly, I found this to be an astonishing opportunity that our school even offers something like this. It sets undecided students on paths of their desires, and it provides clarity to some that the field is in fact not what they want to do. I think this was a vital part in my high school career, something all students should do. Mentors coach the student in their field and though I did not personally have a "mentor" per-say, I found that I saw hundreds of inspirational souls. Machu Picchu taught me peace and serenity. The children I worked with taught me unconditional love and kindness. |
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