Travel with Purpose

Lend a Hand Bahamas is a Bahamian nonprofit community-development organization based in Nassau. Founded in 2014, it focuses on expanding educational opportunities, workforce skills, food security, disaster relief, and community resilience in underserved neighborhoods, particularly the Grant’s Town and Bain’s Town areas of Nassau.  The organization works to strengthen communities through programs t...

David Rosell, supporting St. Margaret's School with technology in Sri Lanka.  How through meeting a woman from Sri Lanka as an uber driver led to a trip to visit her  Hear the story of David’s trip to Sri Lanka with his daughter and how he came alongside to support a local school. They quickly saw a need for technology in the schools. Over years of challenges, the Vallmar Technology Center was...

Impact 4 Good is a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) company that collaborates with businesses to develop charitable team building activities centered around community, contribution, and philanthropy. Listen to ways they create a positive impact while engaging company employees. Click here for opportunities to engage your business in the community: https://impact4good.com/ Wh erever your team...

Hear about  Kim Delaney’s experience as a volunteer with Operation One in Uganda.  Operation One provides hands-on opportunities to serve; child sponsorship programs, medical aid, and capital projects to help lift children and families out of poverty. They also support micro-enterprise and healthcare initiatives for women and vulnerable populations. As you listen to Kim’s experience, discover how...

John, Founder of Silent Bridge  https://silentbridge.org Hear from John, the Founder of Silent Bridge, providing recovery and reintegration support to children and vulnerable women who have been impacted by sex trafficking and exploitation in the most challenging and remote parts of the world. Silent Bridge provides Safe Havens with very holistic educational programs. Learn ways you can support, h...

Anna Fugina, Founder of  Swim Key West & Lynda Weinstein, the Senior Development Officer, of  the Florida Keys children’s shelter https://www.fkcs.org / &  https://swimaroundkeywest.com/ Listen to an amazing story of collaboration between Anna Fugina, the Founder of Swim Around Key West, and Lynda Weinstein, the Senior Development Officer of the Florida Keys Children’s Shelter. Hear about...

Hear from David Ashby, Founder of the Jungle School, helping Honduran kids: His incredible story of working for Dole and pivoting to starting a school for kids without a place to go to school. This school is fully funded by donations. You can sponsor a child, support a school need, or volunteer for a day. Make a difference and have your world changed too. www.helpinghonduraskids.org

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Hear Paulita, a Belizean-American, share her story of creating the Sea of Life. They are a community organization, working with people to educate on plastic pollution and gender equity. They have a plastic solutions academy to accelerate solutions. They have a great school-based system to replace one-time-use plastics. Listen to the innovative ways they are engaging communities to address issues o...

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FLY is a community of explorers, where travels, books, and business initiatives are shared through storytelling. Melissa is both a world traveler and has a travel memoir called The People You Meet.  Listen to her story of traveling the globe and discovering her purpose. Consider how you may connect and contribute on your next trip, as well as how you can stay connected after your travels. Check ou...

Lifeline Ministries is a faith-based NGO located on the island of Dominica, the Nature Island, in the Eastern Caribbean.   Lifeline Ministries Inc is a registered non-governmental organization (NGO) in Dominica that touches the lives of the most vulnerable in society, providing a voice for the unrepresented and victimized, empowering others to move on from their personal disasters to become agents...

  https://www.roatanmarinepark.org/ Hear from Nic Bach, the Patrols & Infrastructure Coordinator of the Marine Park, a community-based, nonprofit, dedicated to the conservation of Roatan’s protected marine and coastal areas. They work in the Bay Islands, the largest marine protected area in Honduras.  They work to inspire, educate, and empower communities and visitors to conserve and protect m...

We are a community-based, nonprofit organization dedicated to the conservation of Roatan’s protected marine and coastal area, including all of its flora, fauna, physical and biological characteristics and phenomena, and historical and cultural We work in the Bay Islands National Marine Park (BINMP), the largest marine protected area in Honduras, with approximately 650,000 hectares. The BINMP is pa...

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Marieke van Asten, Founder of Breadfruit House Dominica Foundation https://breadfruithousedominica.com/ Empowering children through creativity Our vision for the Breadfruit House is to offer children of Dominica an inspiring, encouraging, and safe place to explore their creativity, to express their emotions, and to tell their stories.

Hear from Hope, who started as a volunteer and then became a teacher at Project Esperanza. The mission of Project Esperanza is to serve the Haitian immigrant/refugee population of Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.  They focus on the areas of education, social aid, and community development. Hear how Hope started making children’s books and worked as a music and art teacher. Become a volunteer for...

Ms. Daine Wood Etches, a 5th-generation islander, founded the West End Community Center to meet critical community needs. She describes how this Center provides after-school programs, including English, science, and computer lessons, for children in need of extra support. Her family has donated land for the Community Center, as well as a baseball field, volleyball, and pickleball courts! Listen to...

Amy & Windsyr, volunteers, Roatan, Honduras Hear from a mother & daughter, Amy & Windsyr, who participated in our Roatan Dive and Community Engagement trip. Windsyr shares her experience gaining scientific diving skills around Roatan’s amazing reef, while recognizing the benefits of giving back to the island community. Amy shares how the opportunity to engage in the community gives mor...

Listen to Dr. Connie Duke, the Executive Director of the Art Creation Foundation for Children in Haiti. Dr. Duke brings products created in Haiti back to the US to sell, generating funding support for the Art Foundation. You can sponsor a student by donating backpacks and school supplies, sending holiday boxes, or providing art supplies. If you live in Jacksonville, attend an art market to see the...

Hear from Leslie Ramos, Chief Experience Officer with Blue Missions, in the Dominican Republic. BLUE Missions empowers the youth to advocate for a world where there is water for all, forever. Through service projects and sustainability education, BLUE connects families in Latin America to clean, fresh water and inspires young people to lead the way to a water-secure future. https://www.bluemission...

Hear from Caitlin McHale Floreal as she shares her story of Co-founding Project Esperanza (Project Hope). As a young entrepreneur, Catitlin saw a need for Haitians in the Dominican Republic  Project Esperanza primarily (but by no means exclusively) serves the Haitian refugee and immigrant population of Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, in the areas of education, social aid, and community developme...

Hear from Celeste Bundy, Founder of Education Equals Hope: exists to provide education for students in desperate and difficult situations around the world. They currently work in 7 countries, (Haiti, Ecuador, Uganda, Madagascar). Their motto is to surround students with a community to make sure they have all the tools necessary to complete their education. They frequently includes supporting stude...

Hannah shares ways to get involved with Faithful Servant Missions, helping children get out of poverty through education and ministry programs. She encourages listeners to consider serving on a trip to Costa Rica, incorporating your skills and passions with the needs of the community. Supporting their English program is one great way to plug in; bring your talents and a heart to serve, they’ll do...

Hear from Sara Hernandez, a Missionary with Faithful Servant Missions (FSM), share how she was drawn to this organization’s collaboration with the local community. She emphasizes how they take time to build relationships to learn about and help address the ‘felt needs’. They have before and after school programs, working alongside local schools. Bring your expertise and they will facilitate the re...