Not here to volunteer

Help-
This is NOT at all the main focus of the trip, even though it is the first and the main thing they advertise.
For example: Looking at the schedule on their website, the pre-med program students are supposed to volunteer for 8 full days. However, we actually volunteered a little more than 21 hours GRAND total (spread over 6 days of work instead of 8), which means that we worked around 3 full days of 7 hours. The volunteer program was not a whole lot better (Around 4-5 full days of work). So if you want to join them for the volunteer part, I would definetly recommand you look somewhere else. I believe their problem is that they accept too many students and then they do not want to finish their project before the end of the summer so they make us work less.
Another big disapointment was the lack of relationship formed between the students and the community. Because we worked so little on the volunteer site and because we slept and ate in a "hotel" away from the work site, we did not have the time to build strong relationships, if any true ones at all, with the community we were helping. Therefore, even the celebration at the end of our work was not as heart warming and rewarding as I would have hoped since we barely earned that gratitude.

Learn-
This part was good overall. The rotations were diverse and educational. The tutors were knowledgeable as well, however some of the men were unprofessionnal sometimes (ex: a lot of flirting with the femaie students). Also, the organization around the case studies need a lot of improvement such as more communication between the staff who present the cases and the tutors, as well as being prepared to ask reasonable questions during the presentations. Otherwise, the experience is not at all preasurable nor beneficial. Moreover, the internet and wifi NEED to be fixed at the hostel 593 since it is impossible to be prepared for the case solutions otherwise.

Discover-
THIS is the main focus of their trip. If you're there mainly to "have fun" and do activities, this is a great program for you, even though the price is quite expensive for the quantity and quality of their activities. It is evident to most people that the compagny makes a ton of money off of us. There is also A LOT of partying so if you want to have a serious and life-changing experience, you could return unsatified. On top of all, if you like punctuality and organization, you could be greatly disappointed with this program since there is constant changes to the schedule as well as some things are just skipped. There is also a lack of professionnalism from some individual staff members, intriguingly mostly from the founders.

Bottom line, this program has a lot of potential, but still needs a lot of improvement.