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Absolutely a marvelous journey. Learned and experienced a lot.

My GIVE trip to Tanzania gave me a new perspective on life, cultures, and relationships. Going on a GIVE volunteer trip instead of a vacation allowed me to not only understand Tanzanian culture from a local point of view, but also build strong, close relationships while doing so. I truly did not expect to learn so much throughout my time there. Whether it was a conversation with a local about marriage culture or walking through the slave museum in Stone Town, I felt like I was constantly expanding my knowledge on Tanzania. Even during construction, a break was a great opportunity to ask questions and get first-hand answers. I overall really appreciated how my guides made educating the volunteers such a big focus during the trip. Lastly, being surrounded by likeminded individuals, experienced guides, and welcoming locals made relationships easy to make and goodbyes very hard. I am so glad I pushed myself to go on this trip where I had the chance to help a community and grow in myself.

My GIVE experience was amazing due to all of the guides being some of the coolest and kindest people I’ve ever met. Their influence and positive energy made the experience more impactful than it otherwise would have been. This company’s strengths consist of its organizational skills. The careful day to day planning and resourcefulness when it came to schedule changes made the experience feel so much more smooth. I can wait to go on another adventure with GIVE sometime in the future and see how much it has improved.

GIVE does an incredible job of taking care of their volunteers. From the moment you sign up for a trip, you become part of a family pursuing sustainable change worldwide. Nicaragua was my third trip with GIVE and fourth location. I've traveled to Thailand, Laos, and Hawaii with GIVE, and plan to do more trips in the future! Not only does GIVE give their volunteers the opportunity to work as hard as they play, with important volunteer projects and epic adventures, but they also help volunteers become more knowledgeable about global citizenship, responsible tourism, voting with your dollar, and how to become someone who travels with purpose. I want to thank everyone at GIVE for the programs they've created. I would not be the person I am today without GIVE teaching me so much about the world, the extraordinary people in it, and myself. I am honored to be able to call myself a GIVE volunteer, and I hope volunteers find their way to such an incredible opportunity!

I literally loved everything about this trip: the people, the place, the experiences, and the ease of the whole thing. GIVE staff supported you and was so nice throughout the whole process. They encouraged me that I could do it and would have the time of my life, and they were so right. I got over my fear of traveling that far alone, and they are the reason for it. It was so organized and easy and literally the best experience ever. I loved everything we did and want to go back so bad and reconnect with the land and people.

The guides were so knowledgable and GIVE creates an atmosphere where all can feel welcome and push themselves to be their best.

The best part about being on a GIVE trip is the family aspect. You meet so many wonderful people from across the world that become close friends but also the staff and the humans that GIVE employs, are truly some of the best most personable people. By the end of your trip you feel part of this movement, included in this family, consisting of some really good people just trying to do some really good things in this world. And to be able to experience and be a part of that, with friends makes it that much better

I'm so happy to say that I spent almost 2 weeks in Nicaragua traveling sustainably and helping the community. It was such an incredible experience on the first day I did surfing lessons and I also went to construction to help build a home for one of the people in the community. It was heartwarming to see who we were actually building it for and the fact that they jumped in to help us build it. I met so many amazing friends. I can't thank GIVE Volunteers enough for making me feel like I accomplished some type of good in the world that often feels like it is slowly falling apart. I made connections and memories that will last me my whole lifetime. I also want to thank my friend Julia/julio for encouraging me to do my surfing lessons and shred the knar and get high off the froth. This was one of the best decisions of my life.