an education
Outside the classroom
Our service-learning and travel programs give your students a life-changing opportunity to further their education, make a difference in their communities and create meaningful connections across borders.
*We strive to ensure that no student is deterred from our programs because of cost. Every student willing to help fundraise their way will receive support in doing so.
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Travel With Us
Through international exploration, meaningful service projects, and authentic community connections, students in our programs discover new perspectives on the world and their role in it. Join us as a chaperone on an upcoming service trip. You will feel deeply connected to, and more familiar with, the communities and countries you and your students visit. They will undoubtedly have the experience of a lifetime – working hard and making an immediate impact on the people and places they serve while also having fun, building new friendships, and learning about themselves!
Benefits for Educators
✓ Travel for free
✓ Visit fascinating communities in Ghana, Guatemala, Costa Rica, India & Vietnam
✓ Bring powerful practices back to your classroom and school
✓ Help give your students a transformative education that will last them far beyond the classroom and into their next life chapter
✓ Travel worry free having all of the planning and logistics coordinated by us
✓ Free, impactful professional development that will bolster your pedagogy and practice
Benefits for Your Students
✓ Gain an education outside the classroom
✓ Participate in community-driven, long term service projects
✓ Make cross-cultural connections with peers in other countries
✓ Gain international language exposure and development
✓ Engage in research-based, culturally sustaining curriculum
✓ Exploring passions for their future
Explore Programs
SERVICE TRAVEL
Give your students new educational experiences while exploring the world. Service-learning and cultural immersion are part of every trip. Students quickly learn to improvise and gain confidence in their ability to communicate regardless of their language skills. In addition, our pre-written, core curriculum is rooted in global citizenship competencies and focuses on issues like climate change and sustainability, education, human rights, and social justice. Your students will serve, interact, and exchange while expanding their perspectives and their contextual references.
GAP YEAR PROGRAM
Your students can join us for one semester or two, visiting two countries or four. This once-in-a-lifetime experience will include three key components: Service, Cultural Immersion and Adventure Travel.
CUSTOM TRIPS
We can customize a trip according to your exact needs. If you represent a group, school, club, or organization or you simply want a trip that’s different than what you see listed, click here to design your own experience. Whether you want a longer stay, different dates, travel extensions, want different activities or excursions than what is listed in our scheduled programs, or if you have specific limitations or needed accommodations, Dream Volunteers can design the trip that will fit your needs.
Feel the Program Experience
This brief video will help you understand the experience that you and your students will have and the impact our service trips make.
“In my experience as a student, teacher and a life-long learner, there is no better way to learn and teach than with authentic, meaningful, interdisciplinary curriculum which completely immerses all learners. These new experiences, rich with purpose, push us beyond our own comfort zones to create a united community of learners. We are all students; we are all teachers. This bond in learning is rare in the classroom and difficult to replicate. My philosophy is that global education programs should be transformative, rigorous, field-based learning, grounded in the culture and socio-economics of a region. Dream Volunteers creates such global education programs!”
– Christine Muir Parker,
HIGH SCHOOL BIOLOGY TEACHER
“As an educator I long to ensure my students see learning not just as a set of conversations and debates in a four-walled classroom but rather as a way of seeing the world-a lifelong pursuit of becoming. Over 7 trips with Dream Volunteers across 5 countries, I have come to realize that the dream of inspiring my students minds to grow forever has also done the same for my heart and mind. Seeing their hearts learn alongside their minds enables me to enter a space of re-imagining what it means to engage with the world around me in a way that is necessary to confront the ever-changing reality of our global citizenry!”
-Aukeem Ballard,
TEACHER & SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR
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