Have you ever wanted to do something tangible that made a difference for those who have no voice or opportunity? Have you ever wanted to expand and challenge your global perspective? Have you ever wanted to learn more about how you can be a voice for those who have no voice? You can! Join us on a Hero Holiday!
We provide year-round global humanitarian opportunities in Mexico, Dominican Republic, Thailand and Haiti. In each location, we provide practical assistance to those living in extreme poverty. Activities may include building homes or schools, distributing supplies, providing food, mobile medical clinics and working with children at risk. You will never be the same!
Each Hero Holiday trip is a great balance between hard work, experiential learning, life-altering awareness, great memories, and a renewed passion to return home and affect change, and we would love to have you join us!
****** For up to date trip information please go to our new website at www.livedifferent.com
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Today was our 2nd medical clinic and as far as we were concerned it was a great day! We started our day off at the registration table which was perfect for use since we got to meet all of the patients. It was an eye opening experience all around, but especially when we meet our […]
Published by absolute August 25th, 2011
in FB and Dominican Republic.
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We woke up this morning a tad anxious but full of excitement about our first clinic of the trip. Knowing that we only had a certain amount of time to be able to run our first clinic, we left the resort with determination so we could be back with ample time before the weather started […]
Today was very gut wrenching! (to say the least). As some of you may know, Hurricane Irene hit the coast of the Dominican Republic last night (August 22nd). While all of our team members stayed safe and sound in the resort, which is a strong cinder block structure built to withstand hurricanes, we couldn’t help […]
Published by absolute August 17th, 2011
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Working in the tomato fields was probably the most emotional and hardest thing that I’ve done in Mexico this year. It began with the 4:30am alarm going off in the guys room. From the moment we got off the bus I could tell that this was going to be quite the culture shock. I took […]
Published by absolute August 15th, 2011
in FB and Dominican Republic.
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Today we were so excited to go back to the homes we worked on, as after we leave every day the contractors work on the houses for about 3 more hours and we never know what they will have accomplished in our absence. This was our final day to work on the houses and we […]
Published by absolute August 15th, 2011
in FB and Dominican Republic.
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Last nights’ debriefing, unbeknownst to us, was an excellent preparation for today’s experience at the garbage dump. Talking about the sights, sounds and smells was one thing, but actually experiencing was something else. With anxious anticipation we loaded into the back of our open-aired truck, and bumped over the dirty and dusty road. No matter […]
Our days start at 9am with an open-aired, windblown truck ride to our work site where we’ve spent the last two days. What started as three skeleton buildings are transforming before our eyes into homes for our new friends. Each home is no bigger than 250 sq.ft., but surprisingly, the number of people […]
Published by absolute August 11th, 2011
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Day 1: Awareness Tour
Well the time has come and our 26 participants and 4 interpreters and 4 Hero Holiday leaders boarded the open air trucks and began our 1st annual BPF Hero Holiday.
This afternoon would introduce us to to three families and some other projects that Hero Holiday has worked with in the past. […]
Published by charles July 20th, 2011
in Participant Blogs and Mexico.
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Published by absolute July 15th, 2011
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An awesome group of scouts and leaders from Manitoba joined Hero Holiday in Mexico this summer for their ‘Build a Home Challenge’! While they’ve been keeping their own blog on www.scoutchallenge.ca we wanted to highlight some of their stories here, but make sure to check out their own site for the full versions!
First Post From […]