MEDIA RELEASE: INTERNATIONAL STUDENT VOLUNTEERS
DATE:10.26.2009
Amazing Travel
Opportunity
International Student Volunteers (ISV)
is looking for students from
California
State
University
at
Fullerton
to travel overseas this summer on its exciting volunteer and adventure programs.
Information meetings for interested
students are being held this week at the Titan Union (Tuffree AB
room).
Selected participants will have the
opportunity to travel with a group of students from all over the world (18 years
and over) on volunteer projects and adventure tours to either Australia, New Zealand,
Costa Rica, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, Thailand and Eastern Europe. Most students
will travel for 1 month but some students elect to travel from two weeks up to three
months.
Traveling alongside professionally trained
project and tour leaders, students will spend the first two weeks volunteering in
real hands on projects, in either social community development (improving the quality
of impoverished villages, building houses for refugees, teaching children English
etc) or conservation (working with endangered sea turtles, elephants and dolphins,
ecosystem rehabilitation, environmental education etc).
The second two weeks will see participants
launch into an adrenaline filled cultural and adventure tour of their chosen country,
involving such activities as white water rafting, glacier climbing, waterfall rappelling,
scuba diving and jungle kayaking.
ISV’s Campus Representative, Chris Abfalter
says the organization is looking for fun, outgoing students to partake in the highly
sort after programs.
Chi Nguyen, from the
California
State
University
at
Fullerton
participated on the
Dominican Republic
program says, “Everything about this project from the kids to construction work
was such a valuable experience. These last few weeks have taught me innumerable
lessons. I will be more appreciative now and, know more about world development
for my future career.”
ISV is a non-profit organization that
annually takes over 4000 students on its life changing programs every year. Its
mission statement is “to combine education; conservation and recreation into the
most incredible experience of a lifetime, while giving back to the local communities
in the countries in which we are traveling.” Because ISV
is a not for profit organization, students can offset the cost of the program through
tax deductible sponsorship donations from the community.
Some students may also
apply to receive academic credit for their participation in the ISV program as there
is a strong educational element throughout the entire trip.
ISV will be holding information meetings
on Thursday 5th of November, every hour on
the hour from 9am-5pm at the Titan Union – Tuffree rooms for those students interested
in the program. More information on the program can be found at www.isvonline.org.
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For more information,
please contact:
Chris
Abfalter
American
Campus Representative
International Student
Volunteers
Office: 714-779-7392
E-mail:
chrisabfalter@live.com
Website:
www.isvonline.org