Cross-Cultural Solutions – Vacation with a Purpose!

Well, same thing happens every March. I end up panicked, faced with the task of organizing our family’s summer: camps, obligatory summer school, family visits, leisure travel… How can I fit it all in and coordinate it so that it schedules correctly? Oh, and then I’m working with special wishes, demands and budgets. I feel like a flight controller at O’Hare.

This year, I am quite excited at the idea that we could be choosing a Volunteer Vacation. Indeed, I just found this great company that organizes such vacations for families: www.CrossCulturalSolutions.org. It’s still expensive, but I think that it would make an incredible impact on my children. Personally, I have lived in a third world country, the Congo to be exact, so I have an idea of what abject poverty looks like. Although, I must shamefully admit that I never have done anything to “help” directly. And, as much as we criticize this country that we live in, we are completely ignorant of the living conditions that the vast majority of this planet’s inhabitants deal with in their everyday. I need my children to have a better appreciation for what they have. Be grateful and remember to give back.

This “vacation” would definitely be pricey, but also “priceless” in terms of the life changing experience it would bring to all of us.