 Global Crossroad program? |
Global Crossroad program?Africa » Tanzania | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| any info on trips arranged by Global Crossroad? Any bad experiences? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
schmeg04 Meg Schmitt Post Count: 2 Msg: #1 157 days ago, May 11th 2008 | Hi all- | I'm an undergrad possibly interning in Morogoro, Tanzania this summer. I might be going through a group called Global Crossroad, but I'm having trouble finding information about them. Has anyone ever used them or heard anything about them? Any problems/bad experiences/great experiences? I'd really appreciate hearing anything about them--my trip is in just over a month so I'm trying to figure everything out quickly. Thanks so much! Meg Schmitt Doig Lindz Post Count: 1 Msg: #2 154 days ago, May 14th 2008 | [Edited: 20:48 - Doig - private message is better] nikki006 Nicole Post Count: 1 Msg: #3 50 days ago, August 26th 2008 | I know that this is a late reply to this post but I want to say that my experience with Global Crossroads was not a positive one. I just spent the last few weeks in Tanzania, Africa working in an orphanage with seven other people from my town. Everything that Global Crossroads was involved with in regards to our trip went wrong. There were many things that happened that shouldn't have such as ending up at an orphanage that we knew nothing about instead of going to the one we were told that we were going to, having safari drivers who were not registered and very unorganized causing us to have to end our safari after one game drive because they didn't have the money or the permits to continue, and also the fact that Global Crossroads were very poor in communicating with us what we needed to know. Every other volunteer that we met along the way were also very dissapointed with their Global Crossroad experience. I just want people to understand that Global Crossroads is very unorganized and unreliable based on my own experience with this company. Even though we were dissapointed with Global Crossroads we loved our time spent with the children at the orphanage. That part of the trip was definitely an amazing experience and our hearts were touched while being there. | CourtinUSA Courtney Post Count: 1 Msg: #4 28 days ago, September 17th 2008 | Do not go anywhere with Global Crossroad. My name is Courtney and I just got back from a volunteer program in Tanzania with Global Crossroad/IFRE. The company is a scam and Yotam, the coordinator for Africa is a corrupt man who is not allocating the money to the orphanages. I met other volunteers from other programs while I was there. Check out Global Volunteers, I've heard good things. Just be very cautious. If they tell you that you only need a tourist visa, they are wrong. You need to have a volunteer visa. Good luck. If you have more questions, post them and I will help you out. | Tmnoonan Tom Noonan Post Count: 2 Msg: #5 9 days ago, October 7th 2008 | I would have to second that. Look into other programs. Read these Global Crossroad Reviews | Number of Users: 5 | Number of Posts: 5 | ||||||||||||||
