INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEER WORK

Love and Heartbreak in a Honduran daycare

February 26, 2013 by thirdeyemom

Author’s note: This post is part of my series on my recent trip to Honduras. To read past posts on Honduras, click here. The main reason why I went to Honduras was to volunteer and give back. A month before leaving I found out my volunteer placement would be at a Honduran daycare center for poor single mothers to send their children to the day while they tried to earn a living. As a mother myself who adores children and an […]

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Categories: ADVOCACY, Children, CULTURE, HUMAN RIGHTS, INTERNATIONAL NON-PROFITS, INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEER WORK, SOCIAL GOOD • Tags: children, CULTURE, Honduras, international volunteering, La Ceiba, parenting, Travel

Learning Spanish like a local in La Ceiba, Honduras

February 23, 2013 by thirdeyemom

Author’s note: This post is part of my series on my recent trip to Honduras. To read past posts on Honduras, click here. Finding the right program abroad can prove to be a daunting task. I searched countless hours on the Internet but after the trip to Honduras I realized my mistake. I was searching for volunteer opportunities not spanish language schools. Little did I know that almost every language school offers volunteer opportunities alongside their program. Had I searched under […]

Categories: CULTURE, Honduras, INTERNATIONAL NON-PROFITS, INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEER WORK, La Ceiba, Language, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY • Tags: CULTURE, Honduras, immersion, La Ceiba, Language, learning a foreign language, Spanish, spanish school, thirdeyemom, Travel

Becoming a global volunteer

February 20, 2013 by thirdeyemom

“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.” – Mother Teresa Four years ago, I was finally at the point in my life in which I was able to set a new goal for myself. I made the decision that I would spend one week a year abroad as a global volunteer, giving back to a host community. After years of traveling around the world, I realized how incredibly fortunate I am to be able to see […]

Categories: Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, INTERNATIONAL NON-PROFITS, INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEER WORK, La Ceiba, Morocco, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY, Xela • Tags: a broader view, Costa Rica, Cross-Cultural Solutions, CULTURE, global volunteer, Guatemala, Honduras, Morocco, thirdeyemom, Travel, Volunteering

Arrival in La Ceiba

February 6, 2013 by thirdeyemom

Author’s note: This post is part of my series on my recent trip to Honduras. To read past posts on Honduras, click here. I arrived at the port of La Ceiba around half past three with a jittery stomach. I was a ball of nerves worrying about my ability to communicate effectively in Spanish and curious about what my host family would be like. It felt odd to just be dropped off all alone at the ferry station and have no […]

Categories: INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEER WORK, La Ceiba, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY • Tags: CULTURE, Honduras, La Ceiba, thirdeyemom, Travel, volunteering abroad

Clinica Esperanza: A place of hope

January 29, 2013 by thirdeyemom

It must have been a sign of fate that I happened to be paging through the resort brochure the last night of my stay at the lovely Barefoot Cay and saw the two-page spread on Clinica Esperanza. Instantly I was taken by the story and by a stroke of luck the next morning, thirty minutes before my departure to the United States I found myself interviewing the very doctor who has dedicated the last several years of his life to […]

Categories: ADVOCACY, Global Health, Honduras, INTERNATIONAL NON-PROFITS, INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEER WORK, Roatan, SOCIAL GOOD, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY • Tags: Advocacy, clinica esperanza, CULTURE, health care, Honduras, international volunteering, medical volunteering, Roatan, thirdeyemom, Travel

First impressions on nine days in Honduras

January 15, 2013 by thirdeyemom

Sunday night I arrived home utterly exhausted and unfortunately sick from Honduras. I tend to be prone to stomach bugs when I travel to developing countries and thankfully I always carry an antibiotic which has already began to help. Nevertheless, I lost six pounds in a week and came back to a sick child again as well. We just can’t seem to get healthy in our house.

Categories: ADVOCACY, Children, Honduras, HUMAN RIGHTS, INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEER WORK, La Ceiba, poverty, Roatan, SOCIAL GOOD, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY • Tags: CULTURE, Honduras, La Ceiba, Photography, Roatan, Social Good, thirdeyemom, Travel, Volunteering

My new little amigos

January 9, 2013 by thirdeyemom

I’ve completed my second day volunteering with the beautiful children at a children’s day care center that assists poor single mothers so they can work. Originally I thought I would be working at an orphanage but that was somehow lost in translation. I’m finding that much for me is lost in translation since I’m only at a very basic Spanish level. But I’ve come to understand with traveling, especially in developing countries, that you must simply go with the flow. […]

Categories: Honduras, INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEER WORK, La Ceiba, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY • Tags: children, CULTURE, Honduras, La Ceiba, Photography, Travel, Volunteering

Life without electricity: A moment of reflection

June 19, 2012 by thirdeyemom

The last week has been the most crazy stormy summer weather imaginable in Minnesota. One moment the sky is blue and then without warning enormous, black thundery clouds sweep in and take over the sky leaving us in a downpour of electric lightening and roaring thunder. It has been so wet that I haven’t even had to bother watering my garden (one bonus) but so wet that I can almost see the millions of super sized mosquitoes (which we often […]

Categories: ADVOCACY, INTERNATIONAL NON-PROFITS, INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEER WORK, RESULTS • Tags: CULTURE, electricity, life, Minnesota, mothers, rio+20 summit, Social Good, thirdeyemom

We are the world. We are the children.

April 27, 2012 by thirdeyemom

Why I support Shot@Life…..the children. By supporting and fundraising for Shot@Life, with the help of my friends we have raised over $1500 and counting which will be enough funds to vaccinate 72 children in developing countries for life. I am not finished. There is still much work to be done and more money to be raised. I won’t give up. I have miles to walk before I sleep. The number of children dying around the world due to lack […]

Categories: Children, Fundraising, Global Health - Vaccines, HEALTH & FITNESS, HUMAN RIGHTS, INTERNATIONAL NON-PROFITS, INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEER WORK, PARENTING & FAMILY, poverty, SOCIAL GOOD, UN Foundation Shot@Life Campaign, Women's Health, Women's Rights • Tags: CULTURE, family, fundraising, Global Vaccines, Health, life, Minneapolis, Minnesota, PARENTING & FAMILY, Shot@Life, thirdeyemom, Travel, UN Foundation, Vaccines work

Going GREEN: Official Launch of Shot@Life movement

April 26, 2012 by thirdeyemom

Me and some of my good friends who helped me organize the event. It’s been a huge week. This week is the United Nations’s first ever Global Immunization Week and today in Atlanta, the UN Foundation’s Shot@Life program was officially launched. Talk about a lot of milestones reached! What a huge success for the world’s children who do not have access to the vaccines that keep them alive. Last night, I finally had my own Shot@Life party here at […]

Categories: Children, Fundraising, Global Health - Vaccines, HEALTH & FITNESS, HUMAN RIGHTS, INTERNATIONAL NON-PROFITS, INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEER WORK, poverty, SOCIAL GOOD, UN Foundation Shot@Life Campaign, Women's Rights • Tags: CULTURE, family, fundraising, Global Vaccines, Help, Minneapolis, Minnesota, PARENTING & FAMILY, Shot@Life, thirdeyemom, Travel, UN Foundation

Thirdeyemom

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Learning Spanish like a local in La Ceiba, Honduras

Becoming a global volunteer

Arrival in La Ceiba

My new little amigos

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