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Maybe you want to understand what it's like to live and volunteer in Swaziland before you take your next trip, or maybe you want to see real examples of our work in action in Peru. Whatever the case, our blogs are a great place to stay up-to-date with our volunteer teams and current community projects. Team leaders and volunteer participants share their meaningful stories and post photos on each of our blog sites. Each country has a separate blog that is updated during current trips whenever Internet connections are available in their respective communities.
Winter 2012 will see volunteer teams in:
TANZANIA: Click here to read about volunteers who are building a market roof and new kitchen for a local school in the village of Matipwili in January. This team is being led by DWC president Wayne McRann.
INDONESIA: Click here to read about the two groups who will be travelling to Bali to work with host partner, Widhy Asih, in February and March. Both groups will most likely be fencing and constructing a building that will be used to put in a machine to produce animal feeds, which will help the orphanage generate income.
PERU: Click here to read about team leader, Rod Lypchuck, and his volunteers who will be to working with host partner, CEPRONAM, in the town of Jaen this March.
GUATEMALA: Click here to read about the two high school groups who will be volunteering in the village of San Miguel Duenas over their spring breaks.
Read past postings from Developing World Connections volunteer teams:
KENYA: Click here to read about the seven volunteers who dug trenches and laid piping for the community of Naro Moru over the Christmas Break. Their work was part of a community water tank project which is benefiting over 10,000 local residents.
PHILIPPINES: Click here to read about the custom men-only group who are volunteered with Rise Above Foundation in Cebu. This is the fourth Developing World Connections team to volunteer in Cebu!
RWANDA: Click here to read about the student team who helped finish off the third wing of the COVAGA women's livelihood centre and their meaningful adventure near Gashora.
SWAZILAND: Click here to see postings from the ASK Wellness Team of employees and supporters who helped create a community care point and organic food producing gardens in the HIV and AIDS devastated communities in Swaziland.
CAMBODIA: Click here to read about a unique group of people who ranged in age from 14 - 70 and came from Santa Barbara, Vancouver, Kamloops, Cambodia, and Denmark as they volunteer in the village of Chamcar Bei, building 'Dream Homes' for Cambodian families.
HAITI: Click here to read about the first DWC Volunteer Team that headed to Cite Soleil, Haiti, to work on reconstruction efforts after the devastating January 2010 earthquake.
SRI LANKA: Click here for posts from a a team of volunteers on a two week short-term experience in Tangalle as they helped construct a trades centre.
INDIA: Click here to read about the group who will be lent their human resources to the rural families in a village near the town of Bhinder. They worked alongside the people from the village of Kadesa to build a low-cost water harvesting structure.
NEPAL: Click here for posts from the team near Pokhara working to build small irrigation ditches to catch the monsoon rains.

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