Building Bridges With Ecuador

One good reason to volunteer is the satisfaction you feel in helping people who are attempting to build a better life for themselves.  The trip allows you to not only see this indigenous culture but to experience it at a deeper level.  By talking and working with community members,  visiting their markets to view how they shop for their daily goods and traveling to their homes to observe their living quarters and how they make a livelihood, you will begin to understand the challenges they face and see how they deal with them.

 

The new environment that confronts you in Ecuador means a change from your everyday life, but it will present you with a new frame of reference in meeting your life’s challenges at home.

What Can You Accomplish?

Your contribution of a few days is part of a yearly effort to provide an ongoing program of education, medical care and service to this Third World community.  Your presence conveys a strong message that people around the world, from a variety of backgrounds and spiritual orientations, care about those in economic poverty. Moreover, one person can make a difference in the world of another.

In addition, as participants from various backgrounds and with varying skills join together as a team to provide service to others, lasting bonds of friendship are formed between people who come together for the same cause.  Such interaction provides the opportunity to be enriched by the presence of each other.  Past team members experienced personal growth and a new perspective on their lives and the world around them after returning home from this trip. They often become the people most changed from the experience.