Lifeworks, the community service arm of ActionQuest, offers global service-learning
programs for teens aged 14-19, which combine international community service
projects with cultural immersion, travel and outdoor adventure. Lifeworks is
about working toward positive change. We feel that taking action as an agent
for affecting change can help make a lasting difference.
Whether in the British Virgin Islands, Costa Rica, Galapagos, Thailand, Chinaor Australia, we work in collaboration with local, national, and international
service organizations to further their goals and aspirations. These relationships
enable students to become part of significant, well-established local projects while
gaining firsthand knowledge specific to the region and culture in which they are living.
Skills and learning are fostered through hands-on participation. Each program location offers
a distinctive focus. Teambuilding, leadership and self-reliance development are
natural parts of living and working in close community with common goals. All
programs focus on these and are further enhanced during the Lifeworks Forum.
Distinctive to Lifeworks is that, when our time is up, we are able to offer financial
help with a direct donation to the service organizations with which we have worked.
This helps fund these and other projects in an ongoing way. Additionally, all
participants enroll in the President's Volunteer Service Award program -- an
official presidential recognition system originated by President George Bush,
Sr. in 1992, for outstanding students who participate in voluntary community
service.
While taking part in a Lifeworks project, you are guaranteed to grow from your
experience and develop a sense of achievement by doing things of which you never
thought yourself capable. It might be from the broadening of knowledge gained
through interacting with new people from different cultures or from the feeling
that you are doing your part to help. You might also acquire a greater appreciation
for the world in which you live and the things that you hold important in your
life.
Visit Lifeworks Community Service Programs at Vistit our website at www.lifeworks-international.com
If you are 13 or older, you can also fill out this form to send them email.
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I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for giving me this wonderful opportunity of a lifetime. On this trip I have not only been able to give back to the community but I have learned many priceless lessons about life. I have realized that it is not what you have or the conditions which you live that make life what it is, but it is the people you live with and surround yourself with that make life amazing.
Sandy G.
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