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		<title>My Volunteer Experience with teenage girls in Buenos Aires, Argentina</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My volunteer experience really began before I even started my work. I decided to volunteer in Buenos Aires, Argentina to improve my Spanish and give back to the world. I think that this is something that is very important for everyone, especially young people to do in their lives. I prepared for volunteering at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 Things to Bring on Your Volunteer Trip</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Volunteers traveling to Latin America will need to bring different things depending on the country and type of work he or she plans on doing. However, there are some general objects that are essential for any trip. Here we describe the top 10 things to bring on your trip to volunteer in Latin America! 1. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Casa Guatemala – an interview with Heather Graham</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Guatemala is a captivating country rich with cultural heritage and breathtaking landscapes. However, it is also a country whose people have endured a brutal 36-year civil war.  The effects of war continue today, and the Casa Guatemala project aims to assist the most helpless of those affected – Guatemala’s children. We spoke with Heather Graham, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Tips for Volunteers (Part II)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In continuation of last months &#8216;Top Tips for Volunteers&#8217;, here follows our second installment: Practice your language skills Why not make the most of the opportunity to pick up a new and invaluable life skill – a second language? Even if you only know a few key phrases, do not hold back! The local people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Decisions, decisions, decisions!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Volunteer Work Latin America can provide you with the information, assistance and insight you are after in order to make your volunteer experience the most impactful and meaningful. Check out the descriptions below and visit our video page to get an idea of what to expect from each project type. Cultural Projects. These projects are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soccer success for Colombian street kids thanks to volunteers: Interview with Ed Veldhuisen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A fantastic project in the second largest city in Colombia, this venture was founded to provide children affected by poverty, addiction and violence the opportunity to participate in sports, recreational and cultural activities with an aim to guide the process of social integration. We spoke with Dutch coordinator Ed Veldhuisen about the inspiration behind this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Creative in Cusco – Volunteering in a Psychiatric Home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having recently completed our Masters in Social Work, Sofie and I decided to leave Belgium to spend four months travelling in South America. After starting in Quito, Ecuador, we travelled down to the beautiful city of Cusco to begin a month of volunteer work. The project we worked on provides care to people living in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eldery home in Colombia needs Volunteers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everybody likes to think that when they get old there will be somebody there for them. Maybe a family member, maybe a friend. But for some elderly people this expectation does not become a reality. Volunteer Latin America has a wonderful project running in Colombia, in the midst of the tropical Amazonas, in which volunteers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volunteer Work at a Clinic for Disabled Children</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In January/February 2011 I worked at a clinic for mentally and physical disabled children. In my first weeks I took care of the patients (which I now call friends) by brushing their teeth, changing their clothes, entertaining or feeding them. As most of them suffer from severe handicaps I was really unsure if I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volunteers celebrate 12 years anniversary at volunteer project in Cusco Peru</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Cusco Peru, our volunteers &#38; volunteer coordinator celebrated the 12th anniversary of one of our volunteer projects, the Uni&#243;n de Ciegos. At 10 am everyone came together, the community of the blind people, their families and friends and others who were invited. At 11 am there was a mess and at 12 am they [...]]]></description>
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