Program Reviews

Great experience! So many nice people around the project. I felt very safe and welcome at my host mom’s house, the staff around the basketball project and the Projects Aboard staff too! There was a good balance between free time alone, to enjoy and experience the city on my own, but also activities with the other volunteers in the city.

The only thing I could have missed, was a little more influence on the basketball practice/the work, but with help from the coaches to translate from English to Spanish

I can definitely recommend Projects Abroad!

Excellent organisation and a very supportive family s/o to Patrick Ruiz for making this program incredible!
The program was very fun and interesting, seeing another culture and try to gain a lot of experience by helping them develop their skills.
Peru is an incredible country for volunteering and you will never regret the travelling.
In the future I hope I can re-volunteer and connect with the great people that I knew during my staying and see another time all the kids that I helped during the basketball practices.

I’m very thankful for my trip to Peru. It gave me some clarity on what I want in the future, I felt very safe there, the country was beautiful and filled with culture and history, and my house family was the absolute best. My host family and those that worked for the organization were available at any moment and were so willing to help with anything. This internship confirmed that I definitely want to do medicine overseas. I always look back through my pictures and feel very thankful for the opportunity and the growth I experienced there.

This project left in my mind the memory of what I heard during these 2 months passed there, a precious thing for South African native people = The live is wonderful. It's what I understood with this project. It's remind that every moments in life must be full lived, loved, as for you than for me. To help and bring something of new to a disease or disable child or someone else, we have to love them, share and to live with them the full life. Definitely the world will be better when everyone will live like suffers, relax and kind.

The project offers more than just the work experience. The project was incredible at giving the volunteers a social outlet with one another, which made the whole trip amazing. They also regularly gave advice on the places to visit, and guided us to others that could safely take us around. The archaeology program was amazing, and more hands on than I had imagined. If you do the archaeological project, you will have the opportunity to work with ancient artifacts and explore the most beautiful ruins.

I was there for a month and a half on the human rights project. I worked standard office hours Monday to Friday and spent weekends travelling and weekday evenings chilling. My work involved running legal workshop, provided tailored legal support to individual cases, visiting clients at their homes and researching Tanzanian laws & regulations. I wish I had more exposure to individual court cases. PA staff gave support in literally everything you need help with, you just need to ask! My host family was amazing, I still keep in touch with them!

I travelled to Cape Town, SA with Projects Abroad in 2019. One of the best uses of a summer where I had loads of fun working on legal cases, experiencing Cape Town’s culture and attraction, and met friends from all over the world that I’m still in contact with. Projects Abroad managed the trip brilliantly, organising daily activities outside of our volunteering work, so there was never a dull moment and I always felt safe and considered. The volunteering work felt both impactful within the community, and impactful on my own ambitions and prospects going in to the future.

Projects Abroad Ghana was one of the best experiences I have ever had. I did the medical project where I would volunteer at a nearby hospital as well has do outreaches at local schools. Everyone involved with projects abroad looked after me so well, made me feel extremely welcome and allowed me to volunteer and gain experiences I wouldnt have been able to otherwise. I was given the opportunity to help clean wounds, take vitals, assist midwives during deliveries and so much more. The medical professionals I works with conoketky took me under their wing and encouraged me to get involved and learn as much as possible. It was also great to be able to explore Ghana during weekends which the help of Chief. I would definitely volunteer with them again and if you are thinking about it I would definitely say go for it! You will not regret it.

Shuan and everyone else at the academy are very welcoming and very passionate about their work. They have a great group of kids into whom they have instilled a real passion for surfing. Shane’s mentoring also seems to really help them learn how to live healthily and productively.

From a volunteers perspective, you get out of the project what you out in. You aren’t forced to do anything, but even if you aren’t good enough to teach the kids to surf there’s still lots you can do to help according to your strengths.

Through their reggae night (every Thursday, to help raise funds for the project) there’s also the opportunity to meet lots of local surfers who are very nice and generally very happy to go out and have fun with the volunteers.

I visited Guadalajara for the medical internship and it was amazing! I managed to be in surgery and see 2-3 surgeries a day and I also shadowed a cardiologist. The staff at the hospital are so lovely and it has been the best medical internship I have ever done. The staff talk you through what they're doing and why, so you're not just sat in the corner observing all the time. If you want a hands on experience, this is for you. You also have a choice of loads of wards- from maternity to emergency medicine. I stayed with a lovely family and met some friends that I'll keep forever. The accommodation is really nice and the host family was lovely. You're provided with three meals a day and everything you'll need for your stay. You have loads of support during your stay and there's a lot of activities that are arranged to get involved in. I loved every second of my project and will defo be visiting Mexico again!