28 Jul Delhi: Everything but Mild
Delhi is a buzz of rickshaws, taxis, street cooking, and happily drifting cattle. The sounds and smells are everything but mild....
17 Jul Bangkok in One Word
Bangkok is spicy in the sense that once you take that first bite, you are thirsty for more....
13 Jul No Snake for Lunch
In an attempt to put our experience into words, we asked the crew two questions – What was the most challenging for you? What was the most surprising?...
11 Jul Our Last Day with the Kids
It was madness. The kids splashed and jumped and yelled and laughed and threw water at each other and at us and ran out and slipped and wow...
10 Jul An Almost Amusing Choir
A woman in traditional ultra-Orthodox Jewish attire told Alex and I to pull up our sweaters and cover our necks. Little kids stared and pointed and ran away....
07 Jul Freedom and Fences
At what point can you justify what happens at the walls and at the checkpoints with the protection Israel is receiving?...
24 Jun Peru: Healthcare in Development
I will not say that I went through a butterfly metamorphosis, but I sure did come home a different person, a better person, ready to go forward on the home front and make a difference in some way. ...
23 Jun Raising Awareness in Gulu
Our 2015 group has been helping UYE promote and screen an award-winning short film about rape and gender-based violence in the community....
22 Jun “So What?”: The Art of Asking Questions
I often forget how simple it is to find out more about the people you meet travelling by asking one-word questions: “how?” “why?” “when?”....
22 Jun Clean Drinking Water for Namasuba
RWEYOWA assigned us the project of helping with the reconstruction of a well for access to clean water. We started work the next day, which included removing the garbage and excess dirt from the water source, then building a permanent guard with limestone, rocks, sandbags,...
21 Jun A Hoedown with Ockenden
The soil was hard and dry, like bedrock. Under the scorching heat we dug and dug. We were determined to dig these 25 holes that had to be a meter by a meter....
01 Jun Taking in the Culture of Lima
The OG Amazon Adventure Crew spent our first week in Lima, the capital city of Peru, taking in the culture in as many ways as we could. We took almost-daily Spanish classes to finesse our language skills before adventuring into the streets of Lima....
19 Feb Our Shout-Out Winner is…
We're excited to announce that our Shout Out contest winner is Shelbie Huard! She's getting a cool $750 discount on her Fair Trade program in Guatemala! Our Community Outreach Coordinator, Eric, had the fun job of giving her a call to break the happy news. Her...
22 Jan Shout it Out!
This year, in time for International Development Studies week, we are mobilizing in universities across North America....
22 Jan Refer-A-Buddy and we’ll get you gear!
Each year our Refer-A-Buddy program rewards team members who educate their peers on backpacking with a purpose. Bring a friend, schoolmate, or complete stranger on an OG program and we'll kick you back with a $100 gift card to MEC or REI....