Often, when society looks at India, they see first the overwhelming poverty: the slums, the lack of sanitation, the starving children… But what many of us forget or never knew to begin with is just how much India has contributed to our world as a whole. In addition to never having invaded a country in her last 10,000 years of… Read more →
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The World Is as Big or as Small as You Make It
Check out the amazing story behind an awesome mentor and a group of kids learning how interconnected the world really is, and notice this: The language that most of these children are communicating in is English- what a privilege it is to be born a native English speaker with one of the most spoken languages in the world being a… Read more →
Meet Sean, our newest Kerala Volunteer!
Kerala Volunteer is fortunate to have aspiring teacher Sean Purk joining our team! “Hi! My name is Sean Purk. I am 21 years old, born and raised in St. Louis. I am a Christian who went to Catholic grade school and high school. I graduated from St. John Vianney High School in 2012 taking Christian value with me. Some… Read more →
Teachers: Why you may want to consider dropping everything and volunteer teach abroad..
Kerala Volunteer was fortunate enough to have Kate, an experienced 6 year teacher join our program, and here she sheds a little light on why it might be a good idea for teachers to leave their comfort zone and volunteer teach abroad.. I’m at the other end of the spectrum of teachers who get comfortable in a school and end… Read more →