What You Will Do
How You Benefit
Make a lasting contribution. You can change a community forever by building a school or clinic, working on an ecotourism project or constructing a water system.
Connect with people in a very different culture. You will make friends with loving and inspiring people who live through struggles you have known in fiction. You'll feel the bond of your common humanity with people so unlike yourself and realize you have a second home.
Develop your leadership skills. You will work with a team, solve problems with ingenuity rather than resources, learn to raise money, discover new strengths and interests. You'll build something new and important from start to finish.
Have fun! You'll play, sing, hike, cook and eat meals together, and hear the amazing personal stories of your hosts.
What You Will DoTypical delegations begin with a brief tour of San Salvador visiting the street market, seeing cultural sites, and learning the history of El Salvador from people who live there. During the next 2 weeks, you'll live in a poor, rural village and work alongside them on a community project, learning about them and yourself as you go. We cook and eat together, and in the evening we sing, dance and listen to their personal survival stories. Delegates bond with each other, their host families, and the community, adjust to a new lifestyle, appreciate hard work (really), and experience a simple life without the excesses How You Help the CommunityTeams like yours have:
The community benefits because they:
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