Category: Volunteering

  • Volunteering with Soft Power Education

    We were ready for a somewhat different experience during our time in Uganda, our last stop in Africa. Uganda, also known as “the pearl of Africa”, is a country roughly the same size as the state of Oregon, but with a rapidly-growing population of 33+ million people (for comparison, Oregon’s population is 4 million). The…

  • Volunteering in the Galapagos

    We knew we wanted to volunteer in a few places when we first started planning out our trip several months back. We also knew we wanted to spend a good amount of time in the Galapagos, so one of the first things we did was apply to be volunteers with an Ecuadorian organization called Jatun…