Globe Aware
With exciting reviews by a nine, seven, and a five year old about discovering bats and waterfalls in Thailand, parents will be excited to share the world and its inhabitants with their children. Globe Aware wants families to immerse themselves in the communities they are helping, while providing some fun on the side for the young ones. Kids can sing along with local schoolchildren while helping to build their schools, or play games with young monks while teaching them their favorite English words. All projects either create infrastructure, environmental improvement, or preserve a cultural heritage, which are learning experiences best taught when young. Travel to Laos, Mexico and China, or help kids at a blind orphanage in Peru, any of the trips that Globe Aware provides will bring people and projects together in a joint effort toward discovery of self.
Earthwatch Institute
Earthwatch combines fun with learning on their ten-day family expeditions for those who want to interact with marine friends. While most lodging includes a swimming pool for kids, that won’t be necessary when your ten-year-old is swimming with sea turtles in Trinidad, or canoeing for Diamondback Terrapins in the salt marshes off the East Coast. Earthwatch also created teen trips so your adolescent could get on track to becoming the next Cousteau.
When kids return, Saturday may very well become the day to volunteer at the soup kitchen rather than the day to play videogames.
