Meet Our Volunteers
| Roland Faustlin | Visit Roland's Blog |
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Bio: Roland is a physicist who likes to bike, climb, take pictures, design 3D models, and travel in his free time. In Cameroon, he will draw on his photography and cinematography skills to document the contributions of volunteers. |
| Roland is completing a media internship and learning French. | Leaving from: Germany Going to: Cameroon |
| Lucea Spinelli | Visit Lucea's Blog |
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Bio: Lucea grew up in New York City, and is fulfilling her desire to travel and meet new people. She is pursuing politics and philosphy at school, and is using her love of writing and photography to share her experiences with the world. Lucea is living in the orphanage, and helping to raise funds and their profile so they are better able to do good work! |
| Lucea will spend six weeks building a website & assisting an orphanage. | Leaving from: US Going to: Cameroon |
| Nicole Milloy | Visit Nicole's Blog |
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Bio: Nicole is a Sustainable Development student currently living just outside of London. She has diverse travel experience, but this will be her first time in South America. By combining her passions of travel and community development whilst also furthering her studies, Nicole is excited to be heading to this beautiful country (and to pick up the Spanish lingo!). |
| Nicole will be interning with AMICHOCO for two months. | Leaving from: Britain Going to: Colombia |
| Maria Trujillo | Visit Maria's Blog |
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Bio: Maria is a history student currently residing in Vancouver. She has diverse cross-cultural experience from travelling and living abroad with her family in Europe and the Middle East. Originally from Colombia, Maria is excited to visit her family's country, and spending time giving back to her own people. |
| Maria will be spending one month caring for children under five who are living with HIV/AIDS. | Leaving from: Canada Going to: Colombia |
| Mirka Goossens | Visit Mirka's Blog |
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Bio: Mirka is a hard working architect. She wanted to spend her only free time during a busy year in a way that makes a difference; doing something good for people in need. She is doing so by contributing her time, energy, and skills for a community, all while learning another culture and language… how else would you want to spend your time? |
| Mirka will be learning French and caring for orphaned, abandoned and exploited children. | Leaving from: Belgium Going to: Cameroon |
| Livienne Love | Visit Liv's Site |
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Bio: With eleven years of experience in childcare, Liv is bringing her expertise to Douala where she will be working with abandoned and orphaned children. Liv will be soaking up all the knowledge she can while in Cameroon, as she plans to open her own orphanage one day! |
| Liv will be learning French and caring for orphaned, abandoned and exploited children. | Leaving from: United States Going to: Cameroon |
| Lena Eckhoff | Visit Lena's Blog |
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Bio: Lena is a special education teacher who teaches children from kindergarten through to grade five. She is passionate about mentoring at-risk youth and soccer. With THEX, she will combine these two passions to teach soccer skills to youth in Lima. Lena has gone the extra mile. With her local soccer club, she is donating soccer balls and other sports equipment. |
| Lena will be learning Spanish, while working with marginalized urban youth. | Leaving from: United States Going to: Peru |









