2010 Service Options:

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

7/7-7/20 14 days $2100

Estimated Airfare: $600

Serve The World provides an excellent opportunity for those seeking to spend their summer helping others. Each journey is two weeks long, and the focal point of each is community service, offering a chance to “serve the world.” We’ve set up these expeditions so that there will be time left to experience an exceptional adventure as well.

Serve the World allows you to provide aid to an assortment of demanding causes that meet the pressing needs of the local communities. At International Doorways, we see service to others as a privilege. You help change the world while you raise your own sense of self worth and begin to consider the planet’s well being as well as your own. You might surprise yourself with hidden abilities. Did you ever think you’d teach English to a Balinese third grader in your lifetime? Will you be lucky enough to communicate with a nine year old Peruvian orphan who has never been able to hear a word until your efforts afford her the chance to receive a hearing aid? Can you imagine how great it feels to nurse an orphaned meerkat or cheetah back to health and return it to its place in the wild? How about assisting with the construction or repairing of housing for people who are in desperate need in the nations of Tanzania or Turkey? Travel with Serve the World and you’ll do all of these things and more.

In some areas of the world, you begin providing community service as soon as you arrive, simply by spending a dollar to help bolster the economy of a village. Small amounts of money that you spend can be the difference by providing the means for a family to have enough food to eat. This certainly isn’t the only way that you can help impoverished communities, but you mustn’t underestimate your ability to affect small villages’ economic stability merely by your presence and the financial support you afford while you’re there, and maybe even after you leave.

Serve the World gives you the chance to become more productive and helpful young adults. Providing assistance to others and receiving their gratitude empowers everyone, creating a feeling of satisfaction and warmth and higher self-esteem. Such service automatically helps you align your values and your goals with those that seek to uplift the entire global community.