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Travel with Purpose
by Create Connections
Welcome to Travel w/ Purpose . This is your host, Dr. Aileen Hale. I invite you to my channel where you can learn about meaningful ways to travel and engage in communities around the world. Join us as we travel, learn, and serve, impacting lives – both ours & theirs - while building life-long, global connections!
Episodes
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S45 E02 - MSC Foundation-global nonprofit; Osvaldo Montenegro
Hear from Osvaldo Montenegro, an MSC Cruise representative for the MSC Foundation. Founded by the Aponte family in 2018, the MSC Foundation delivers sustained impact across the key areas of: marine conservation, community support, education, and emergency relief. Come aboard and make a difference...
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S45 E01 - Kimberly Haley-Coleman, Founder and Executive Director of Globe Aware
Hear from Kimberly Haley-Coleman, Founder & Executive Director of Globe Aware, a nonprofit which develops short-term international volunteer programs that encourage people to immerse themselves in a unique way of giving back. Their short-term programs promote sustainability and cultural…
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S44 E02 - Heather Kenney, a volunteer with International Orthodox Christian Charities
https://iocc.org (videos & press release on website) was established in 1992 as the official international humanitarian relief and development agency of the Standing Conference of Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the Americas (SCOBA). IOCC is now an agency of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox…
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S44 E01 - Deepa Pant, Founder of Svatanya
Svatanya is a Delhi-based social enterprise founded by Deepa Pant that upskills underprivileged and migrant women in urban slums to create handcrafted items, toys, and apparel while promoting environmental sustainability through textile Hear = independent women Hear from Deepa Pant, the Founder…
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S43 E02 - Jenny Chan, Founder of Pacific Atrocities
Education,https://www.pacificatrocities.org/about.html based in San Francisco She started this nonprofit based on her family history. She realized the lack of knowledge and information and stories needing to be told! Listen to the untold stories and ways they are educating the next generation…
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S43 E01 -Graham Kirchner, Founder of Pacific Health Partners, The Marshall Islands
Growing up in The Marshall Islands, Graham shares a personal story of losing a close friend’s mom and dad, at a young age. This tragedy led him to pursue medicine as a career to help the people of his birth-country. During his senior year of residency, Graham founded Pacific Health Partners, a...
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S41 E02 - Mitsy -Ann Irving, Executive Director, Lend a Hand Bahamas
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…
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S41 E01 - David Rosell, Sri Lanka
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…
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S40 E03 - Ira Almeas, Founder, Impact4Good
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…
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S40 E 02 - Kim Delaney- volunteer w/ Operation One
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…
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S40 E01 - John - Founder of Silent Bridge
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....
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S39 E02 - Anna Fugina, Founder of Swim Key West
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...
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S39 E01 - David Ashby, Founder of the Jungle School
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…
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S38 E01 - Sea of Life w/ Paulita Bennet-Martin, Co-Founder & Exec. Director
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...
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S37 E02 - Rachel Kamps - volunteer w/ Episcopal Relief & Development
https://www.episcopalrelief.org
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S37 E01 - Melissa Rodway, Founde of FLY
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…
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S36 E02 - Tina Alexander, Founder of Lifeline Ministries
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...
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S36 E01 - Nic Bach - Marine Park, Patrols & Infrastructure Coordinator for Marine Park
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…
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S35 E02 - Tony Stone, Adelante Foundation, Honduras
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...
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S34 E03 - Marieke van Asten, Founder of Breadfruit House Dominica Foundation
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…
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S34 E02 - Hope Miller - Project Esperanza
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…
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S34 E01 - Ms Daine Wood Etches , founder of the West End community center, Roatan
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...
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S33 E02 - Amy & Windsyr, volunteers, Roatan, Honduras
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…
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S33 E01 - Dr. Connie Duke, Executive Director, Art Creation Foundation for Children
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...
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S32 E02 - Blue Missions with Leslie Ramos
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,...
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S32 E01 - Project Esperanza with Caitlin
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…
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S31 E02 - Celeste Bundy, Founder, Education Equals Hope
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...
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S31 E01 - Hannah Rowen Fry with faithful servant missions
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...
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S30 E02 - Sara Hernandez, volunteer with Faithful Servant Missions
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...
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S30 E01- Cheryl Bradford, Co-Founder of Faithful Servant Missions
Hear from Cheryl Bradford, the Co-Founder of Faithful Servant Missions (FSM) focuses on breaking the cycle of poverty through education and recognizing the importance of education and English for future employment opportunities for those in the community. FSM welcomes volunteers, individuals, or...
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S29 E03 - Christopher Hill - Hands up Holidays
Christopher Hill - Hands Up Holidays https://handsupholidays.com/belize/ 🎧 Episode Title: Expanding Horizons: Travel That Transforms with Christopher Hill of Hands Up Holidays 🌍 Podcast: Travel With Purpose In this powerful episode, Aileen sits down with Christopher Hill, the visionary founder…
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S29 E02 - Tara Patten Weisner, a Founding Board member of Soles by Grace
Tara Patten W. A founding Board member with Soles by Grace shares her story of traveling to Kenya as a volunteer. Here her Aileen Hale introduces Tara Patten Weisner, a founding board member and volunteer for the non-profit organization, Souls by Grace. Tara shares how she got involved with the...
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S29 E01 - Shannon Farley, Founder of Soles by Grace, Kenya, Africa
Shannon Farley, the Founder of Soles by Grace, shares her story of how she discovered the need for shoes to make a tremendous difference in children’s lives. They are partnering with Badda Shoes, a shoe company in Kenya, to grant Soles by Grace 175 pairs of shoes to reinvest in their community.…
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S28 E02 - Jeff & Audi, volunteers, Manos de Fe
“You go down thinking you’re going to help, but what you see is the contentment that they have …” If you get a chance to go…GO!! Go with an open mind. You’ll say you’re doing it for them, but it’s the best thing you’ll do for YOU! It’s one thing to go on a vacation, its so much more to go with a...
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S28 E1 - Julie Proctor, Founder, Manos de Fe, Panama
Listen to Julie Proctor, a Founder of Manos de Fe, share her journey of starting this nonprofit organization, supporting an indigenous people group in Panama. She describes the extreme conditions of poverty and the need for an orphanage. Your involvement can make a huge difference in these...
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S27 E2 - Natasha, president of Stella (nonprofit in N Macedonia
Hi! this is the description for tomorrow's episode: Hear from Natasha, the President of Stella, a nonprofit organization based in N. Macedonia. Natasha shares ways Stella advocates for women’s empowerment and safety. Several co-founders are Fulbright Alumni, involved in organizing educational...
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S27 E1 - Salija, Founder of Roma Women’s Rights Initiative in N. Macedonia
Listen to Salija, the Founder of the Roma Women’s Rights Initiative in N. Macedonia share ways they are helping the Roma women and girls with education and advocating for their rights. She shares the challenges many face, living in poor conditions without electricity. They work to counteract such...
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S26 E3 - Dora - Mexico - Project Amigos
Donor Guidance Director Dora Zuniga ; Project Amigo helps students in the state of Colima, Mexico achieve the education necessary that improves their quality of life and that of their community. Education and literacy are powerful keys to enabling a brighter future for the world’s children, who…
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S26 E2 - George & Will, volunteers from the UK with PIER (Partners in Education Roatan)
Hear from George & Will, volunteers from the UK, working in Roatan through Project Trust. They share their experience volunteering for a year with PIER: Partners in Education Roatan. The school where they’ve been volunteering models the impact of teaching English over the year to the kids. “You...
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S26 E1 - Elena with Waves Lobitos
https://www.wavesfordevelopment.org/
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S24 E3 -Rotary Club of Ambergris Caye, San Pedro, Belize - Pete Davis, In-coming Club President
Projects that Rotary is doing on island - with Book distribution to schools and renovation of Hope Haven (orphanage); delivery of wheelchairs.....more to come #RotaryInternational; #Rotaryclubofambergriscaye
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S24 E2 - Rachel Kamps, supporter of Episcopal Relief and Development
As a musician, Rachel offered to host a concert, as a fundraising effort for hurricane victims. The funds raised through Episcopal Relief and Development will be distributed to hurricane victims who are still struggling - months later - to rebuild their lives. Listen to her powerful story of...
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S24 E1 - Steve Frantzich, President Books for International Goodwil
Steve Frantzich, President of Books for International Goodwill (BIG), shares the history, purpose and milestones of this organization. Books for International Goodwill's primary purpose is to provide books to underserved populations in the U.S. and abroad. They send "a library in a box" with…
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S23 E5 - Ms. Elsy Torres - Principal, Holy Cross School, Ambergris Caye
Ms. Torres shares the socio-economic challenges that this school addresses. The school was built over marshes and lagoons in support of a community that had no access to school. She shares how volunteers play a vital role in supporting students’ academic progress in their community. They welcome...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to Travel w/ Purpose . This is your host, Dr. Aileen Hale. I invite you to my channel where you can learn about meaningful ways to travel and engage in communities around the world. Join us as we travel, learn, and serve, impacting lives – both ours & theirs - while building life-long, global connections!
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