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I know I'm about to make everyone jealous with this blog but I just can't help it - sorry! At least I know that most of you will have amazing trips to look forward to yourselves and perhaps some of you will actually be going to one of these trips in Costa Rica too - lucky things! I had the privilege of accompanying some interested journalists on a whistle stop tour of Costa Rica and...

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In June 2010 i-to-i Volunteer & Adventure Travel worked with Thomson Sport to help one of our projects in the Cape Town while the World Cup was on. Aided by keen England footie fans and journalists one of our disadvantaged projects in Masiphumele township (http://www.i-to-i.com/volunteer-projects/care-for-children-in-masiphumelele-south-africa.html) got a facelift with a brand new classroom. A team of extremely hard working fans and journalists built this classroom in just one day to totally revamp the cramped and...

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John (our MD) and I headed to Nakuru in Kenya to meet the volunteers working at our Building and Community projects. It was fantastic to see our volunteers in action and hear the communities talking about what a difference they have made to this slum area of Nakuru. One of the biggest problems faced by the project and our volunteers is lack of resources and this couldn't have been more apparent with our building volunteers....

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I've just come back from an awesome 2 week holiday in Cape Town. I went over there to take part in the Argus bike ride which is a 110km race around the Cape Peninsula with our coordinator Ali. It's a great way to see the whole of the Cape area and enjoy the atmosphere of such an amazing event - they close all the roads and bikes take over! The only tough bit was the...

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