Nov 26th, 2011 at 11:00AM: Every once in awhile, I read something really inspirational that makes me see the real potential of society. After learning about the Berg brother's bike ride from Anchorage, Alaska, to Patagonia in Argentina, to raise money to build a house for the Lake Agassiz Chapter of Habitat for Humanity, I knew it was one of those times.
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Bound South: 3 brothers cycle from Alaska to Argentina to raise money for charity
Nov 26th, 2011 at 11:00AM: Every once in awhile, I read something really inspirational that makes me see the real potential of society. After learning about the Berg brother's bike ride from Anchorage, Alaska, to Patagonia in Argentina, to raise money to build a house for the Lake Agassiz Chapter of Habitat for Humanity, I knew it was one of those times.
Since August 11, 2011, Nathan Berg, 24, Isaiah Berg, 22, and David ...Habitat for Humanity building an eco-tourism village in Indonesia
Jan 24th, 2011 at 11:00AM:
Habitat for Humanity has partnered with Asia Pulp & Paper, one of the world's largest paper producers, to bring a struggling village in Indonesia out of poverty in an unusual way: by making it into an eco-tourism destination where visitors can stay with families.
This controversial conversion will take place in Soran, a village where 60 percent of the resident families live below the ...
Inn by the Sea to cut rates, benefit Habitat for Humanity
Mar 20th, 2009 at 1:00PM: Inn by the Sea, an eco-luxury property in Cape Elizabeth, ME, is dropping prices 50 percent Sunday through Thursday this spring. The goodwill go guests is wrapped in a larger act of conscience – guests taking advantage of this rate will write a $35 check to Habitat for Humanity. The "Hospitality for Humanity" program is sponsored by the Maine Innkeepers Association (MEIA), which raises cash ...Volunteer Vacation Reviewed
Oct 2nd, 2006 at 10:59PM: Now that I've given you a week of blow-by-blow insider detail and a look at how fun volunteering while on vacation can be, let's do a quick review. First question people always ask, "How can I do something like this or volunteer with Habitat for Humanity?" Joining a GV Team with Habitat for Humanity is usually the easiest part I find. Before signing up for the first plane to Uganda to help build ...Volunteer Vacation Day Seven: Last Day of Building
Sep 30th, 2006 at 4:45PM: This was it - the end of the Global Village road. The final day of building had reached. When we pulled up that morning in the van we were greeted by several smiling Tajik children who extended their tiny hands for the shaking. As we walked away from our new friends to the house we saw a huge dump truck filled with dirt blocking our way. As you might guess now this dirt was dumped right in front ...Volunteer Vacation Day Six: Every Hand on a Bucket
Sep 29th, 2006 at 4:37PM: Sometime early in the trip I made the rule: Every hand on a bucket. If you were one of the players in one of the many bucket lines this was important. Again, the task could have easily been a huge snore, but with all hands and eyes watching a bucket no one should have been completely bored with the bucket line duties. Everyone was to be included. Most of the time this was for me as I hated it ...Volunteer Vacation Day Five: Third Home, Same Duties
Sep 28th, 2006 at 4:34PM: Most of the first-timers in the group weren't surprised when we'd heard we were headed to a third worksite, but some of the veteran builders found this shuffling interesting. On my first Global Village trip five years back in Cluj-Napoca, Romania we stayed at the same worksite for the entire trip and noticed very significant changes from the time we arrived to the day we left. Christina (the six ...Travel + Leisure on Volunteer Vacations
Sep 27th, 2006 at 6:11PM: Having just returned from my own volunteer vacation with Habitat for Humanity in distant lands I wasn't searching for more opportunities just yet, but stumbled upon this awesome T+L piece on volunteer vacations. First it was their photo of the day picture as seen here taken by David Nicolas at one of Habitat's new sites on the Gulf Coast that caught my attention. Clicking further I found that the ...Volunteer Vacation Day Four: Bringing Mud to the Roof
Sep 27th, 2006 at 4:31PM: If you recall, yesterday I touched on the mud making process and how we were left out of squishing our feet in the cool wetness of it all which probably would have felt great in Dushanbe's heat, but with time we would have muddier days. Day four wasn't going to be one of them. For a brave two volunteers there was the task of going up on the crowded roof to hand off buckets to the construction ...Volunteer Vacation Day Three: More Dirt, More Mud
Sep 26th, 2006 at 4:12PM: On day three we found we were being moved to a new site for another family close by to the one we had been working with the first two days. This new home was being built from the ground up, but we were coming in with a significant portion of the framing done. The home would belong to a doctor, his wife and 16 year-old son along with the parents of either the doctor or the wife. It became a little ...Volunteer Vacation Day Two: Making Concrete Is Not Easy
Sep 25th, 2006 at 5:03PM: What a difference a day makes! In our case we were all terribly sore, but chipper as ever. Okay, there is the one small exception of a few upset stomachs in the bunch. Still we were all very ready to continue building, but before I go further, yesterday I made an awful mistake of forgetting to tell how the homebuilding in Dushanbe works. In all regions Habitat for Humanity affiliates are located ...Volunteer Vacation Day One: Shovels, Buckets, & the Pit
Sep 24th, 2006 at 3:54PM: On the days leading up to my departure both friends and family raised their eyebrows and shook their heads as I casually talked about my coming vacation. Vacation in their eyes is not taken in unpronounceable places bordering Afghanistan like Tajikistan and most certainly does not involve any kind of strenuous labor. While many applauded my efforts, several just wished I'd picked a different ...
