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Champions of Change

By Outpost
CBC News, in association with Outpost magazine, and presented by Manulife Financial, 
introduces: Canada’s Champions of Change, a national people’s choice awards program 
in search of our country’s top volunteers!...read more

The Outpost Global Travel Guide 2009: Volunteer Trips

By Mark Burgess
Discover how travel and volunteer can be united with a number of different voluntours from around the world....read more

The Outpost Global Volunteer Guide 2009: The Heroes

By Deborah Sanborn
The Global Volunteer Guide is a three part series on the individuals, institutions and inventions making a difference--and the trips you can take to affect change. From Outpost issue 67. In part one, we profile the heroes....read more

Engineering a Better World

By Terri Alderfer
Five low-tech innovations making high-impact changes across the globe ...read more

Adventures in Volunteering

By Terri Alderfer
Integrating travel and volunteerism is a surefire way to leave footprints wherever your next adventure might take you. A guide to short and long-term overseas opportunities. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT American Field Service Founded in 1914 to transport wounded French soldiers during the First World War, the American Field Service has emerged into an international volunteer organization, providing intercultural learning [...]...read more

Travellers For Change

By Outpost
Building a Place to Learn Allan Wigood, 76, Retired – Kitchener, ON The proud owner of a new motor home, Allan Wigood was all set for retirement in 1989 when he took a trip to Central America as a volunteer with the NGO World Accord. “After witnessing the living conditions in Honduras and Guatemala,” has says, “I [...]...read more

Global Volunteer Guide 2006

By Outpost
Our annual comprehensive guide to global volunteering and making a difference overseas. Whether we have two weeks, two months or two years, more and more Canadians are signing up to teach in classrooms, provide medical aid, build schools and dig ditches around the world than ever before. From raw and eager teens to savvy 75-year-olds, [...]...read more