Dear Gentle Readers,
As you know, I have started to blog about my Habitat experience in Romania. Due to a combination of a stomach virus and lack of wi-fi access, blogging hasn’t been my number one priority. I received an e-mail from my friend Vickie Ott who worked on my Habitat build in Costa Rica. Her [...]
So after my Habitat For Humanity trip in Costa Rica, I did the natural next step for Singh Around the World– I hopped a plane and went to Abuja, Nigeria. Gentle readers- you are probably asking why Costa Rica to Nigeria? I assure you there is method to my madness.
In October of 2007, I [...]
The Families
The families that lived in the Habitat houses were a great grounding force for me. My trip has the potential to see things at a very surface level. Tourism in general puts the focus on sites and we often miss the human element of the people who live, work and play in the communities we travel [...]
One of the cool things about international volunteer opportunities is that they often combine some level of sightseeing with the volunteer component. Of course, the volunteer pays for the extra curricular activities. On our trip we had three things planned for us by our team leader- a trip to Mt. Arenal/La Fortuna, a riverboat trip [...]
Amanda Sharai, our Habitat Team Leader, had chosen the team from a group of sixty applications. She interviewed via phone 35 people and narrowed it down to a group of fourteen including herself. The group was an interesting mix of people that came from different walks of life. The group ranged in age from [...]
International volunteering is growing at a rapid pace. It is a wonderful way to see the world and to connect to people of different cultures. International volunteers from America can also play a role as an ambassador for our country and our people. It is a wonderful antidote to the pathetic foreign policy coming out [...]
Our build site was located in Santa Cruz, which is in the Guanacaste Province of northern Costa Rica. In many Habitat for Humanity builds, you work on a house along side a family. Our project was different. There was a small neighborhood of nine Habitat for Humanity houses that were recently completed and we were [...]
The Habitat Blogs occurred between January 20 and February 1 in conjunction with my volunteer experience with Habitat For Humanity International in Santa Cruz, Costa Rica.
As part of my sixteen-month journey, I was committed to working with nonprofit organizations and providing some volunteer service to some of the communities that I would be traveling through. [...]
We woke up in the morning and went for a run through the town and by Lake Nicaragua. The run was tough for me because by 8 am the temperature was in the mid 80’s. After the run we went, back to the Bearded Monkey and packed up our belongings and checked out of the [...]
