In June this year, our whole family is going to Nepal to live and volunteer in a remote village. Last fall, Jessica and I watched an assembly at her school. During the assembly, about a dozen high school students presented information about people, famous and unknown, who had volunteered in various ways around the world, and they discussed how the volunteer efforts of these people had changed the lives of those they had touched. Jessica came home from school that day and decided that our family needed to do more to help others. We searched the internet for a volunteer opportunity that matched our family’s interests and capabilities. We did not want to be a small cog in a very large organization, and we did not want to be involved with the same organizations that everyone
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