TESTIMONIAL

My name is Stephanie, I am from the U.S. and I came to volunteer in Cusco, Peru. I have been volunteering with teenage girls who´ve been sexually abused. I have been here for three months and I am about to leave today and I am very sad. My volunteer experience in Peru has been absolutely incredible. The girls that I work with are so strong and so amazing and beautiful and the women, who work in the shelter, are equally as incredible. I am so lucky to have had this experience and to have met all the people that I have met here in Cusco, other volunteers, other students and then of course the people I have been working with. I am incredibly grateful for this experience and appreciative of all who´ve helped me throughout everything.

My internship in Buenos Aires has been a good experience. I was very happy that I had to do my work in Spanish because I increased my vocabulary a lot. I have also gained work experience in Argentina. The employees and interns at the company were very nice; they gave me enough work to do, and also gave me feedback on my work. The work was interesting; I performed market research for Argentinean companies wanting to export their products to other South American countries.

I have very much enjoyed my volunteer work in Peru. After one week of private Spanish classes in Cusco I worked for 2 weeks at an after-school project. I had collected money from friends and family back home in Belgium and bought all kinds of educational material and games for the kids, which they absolutely loved and were so grateful for. The kids were so happy as they now have some other games to play with. They really liked the origami I brought for them and loved me showing them how to work with it. It was great to see how they started helping each other and how proud they were of what they made The last day of my volunteer work they threw me a great party and we took lots of pictures. I loved my volunteer experience in Peru, and I would very much like to come back one day.