If you’re planning a trip, why not consider making an impact on the community you are visiting? From teaching English in local schools to participating in environmental conservation projects, ...

Travel volunteering has long been a pillar of the backpacking community. However, while some opportunities lead to careers and life-long passions, others end in disaster.

Christopher McGuire will never forget how medical volunteers in Zambia saved a dying man who had leprosy. The volunteers — doctors, dentists and nurses — were on a trip organized by McGuire’s ...

The best place to explore volunteer vacation opportunities in the United States and abroad is through nonprofit organizations or church groups. It's important to keep in mind that you will have to pay ...

You don't have to give up your vacation to give back. — -- There's a lot of appeal in the idea of a volunteer vacation: giving back while getting away, getting to know the "real" people of a the ...

Instead of traveling through Europe, tanning at the beach, or returning home, 62 students decided to take a different and potentially cheaper kind of vacation. As part of the Leonard Carmichael ...

What can you tell me about volunteer vacation programs? I’m a healthy, 60-year-old, single woman, and am interested in doing some solo traveling, but would like to tie it with something meaningful. — ...

After a few negative camp experiences, my kids and I started traveling abroad to Southeast Asia for several weeks each summer. I think of this as a temporary relocation rather than a big touristy trip ...

Now that my kids are young adults living on their own, I’m an empty nester. Without the stress of daily caregiving, I have time to reflect on my parenting. There are, of course, many things I wish I’d ...

Instead of soaking in the sun poolside or lounging around a luxurious hotel, more travelers are spending their vacations creating trails in the Faeroe Islands, digging into the earth of Patagonia or ...

NEW YORK - You could pay a lot of money for the privilege of donating your labor to a worthy cause somewhere around the world on a volunteer vacation. Or you could just throw your sleeping bag in the ...