When it comes to themes for student travel, volunteering tops the list these days. We’re all looking for a life-changing experience in which we not only gain appreciation for the earth and our place in it, we also give back in a way that changes us forever. 

Although today’s media notoriously fails to focus on the greatest needs around the world, we do live in the age of connection. With the technology of the internet and the immediacy with which news can travel, we are more aware than ever that we share the planet with endangered animals, underprivileged families, and nations devastated by war, poverty, and genocide.

We know many of you have focused on different areas of need for years now. For you, creating a student tour to a location where you can provide some sort of aid is far more enticing than roller coasters, wax museums, or the beach. We want to help you make these visions a reality.

Perhaps your heart belongs to endangered animals. Our opportunities to volunteer abroad include working with several different species, endangered and otherwise. Or perhaps you want to build homes for those who don’t have them or volunteer in an orphanage. Our volunteer student tours offer trips to the rainforest of Ecuador, a tropical island in Thailand, Costa Rica, Honduras, South Africa and more with a variety of opportunities working with the needs closest to your heart. 

For your next student tour, consider volunteering. The benefits belong to you as well as to those you help. And there are simply too many needs to ignore.