Media Release
Kiwi Blogger, Dips Her Toe in Volunteer Tourism.
21st November 2017 – Kiwi not for profit, Go Kiwi Go is at the forefront of the new volunteer holiday trend, including gap years, and
mid-career breaks. Go Kiwi Go recently sent Blogger at Large, Megan Singleton, to Nepal to experience volunteer tourism
first hand.
“Volunteering in a country that has such huge needs like Nepal (and so many others around the world) is life changing in
a way that is very hard to explain,” says Megan Singleton.
Go Kiwi Go provides opportunities to volunteer around the globe, from working with children in Nepal, and elephants in
Thailand, to women’s empowerment in India, and caring for the elderly in Costa Rica, to diving and marine biology in
Greece, Mexico, the Pacific, or Seychelles.
“Since I’ve returned home, my Facebook feed has been filled with friends on luxurious holidays, off to the theatre,
drinking fancy cocktails, and I look at that now through the filter of the lives that weaved through mine in Nepal. We
truly don’t know how lucky we are. It was good to be able to give some practical, hands on help, rather than just be a
tourist.”
Projects run from two to 24 weeks, and people can extend if they wish, or move from project to project. Go Kiwi Go has
the added benefit of providing participants with cultural competence training, to help them immerse in the new
environment.
“I will be honest and say my 10 days in Pokhara really stretched me. In a good way though. What I liked most was that
these volunteers and the organisation that Go Kiwi Go partners with are about long-term sustainability,” says Megan. If
you’d like to find out more to share with your readers please contact Susan, details below. For more information visit
the Go Kiwi Go website
About Go Kiwi Go Go Kiwi Go is a branch of AFS, which has been operating student exchanges in New Zealand since 1947 and
is one of New Zealand’s oldest charities.
About Megan Singleton Megan is a full-time blogger and traveler with her own popular website, ‘Blogger at Large’. Her
work includes being the Sunday Travel correspondent on Newstalk ZB. Megan has 7,518 followers on Facebook. 5,972
followers on Twitter, and her Nov 20th article on TVNZ’s Breakfast show 18,500 views to date.