Cross-Cultural Solutions is a recognized leader in the field of international volunteering. CCS has nearly 15 years of experience, and more than 20,000 alumni who have traveled to countries around the world. We have been featured in more than 500 publications and broadcasts, including CNN, The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, Time, Newsweek, The Chicago Tribune, USA Today, The Toronto Star, The Today Show, USA Today, National Geographic Traveler, and ABC Nightly News.
CNN.com | More older Americans signing on to volunteer abroad
April 23, 2009
Cross-Cultural Solutions, a nonprofit in New York that offers volunteer trips to countries like Russia and Peru from one to 12 weeks, experienced more than a 10 percent growth in volunteers over 50 in 2008, compared with 2007, according to company officials.
victoriastar.ca | Guatemala trip a satisfying experience for Tia Shaw
April 15, 2009
The community of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, in Central America was home for Tia Shaw of Perth-Andover for over a week in February when she, Professor Shirley Rush and four other UMPI students travelled there as part of their university curriculum. They were going on a ‘service learning trip’ to do community development projects with infants and children, and people with special needs. ... The UMPI volunteers program was partnered with a New York organization called Cross Cultural Solutions which organized the travel arrangements and accommodations.
TIME | Volunteer Vacations
March 13, 2009
Jamie Cann and his wife, Mary, returned recently from a trip to Tanzania. Jamie spent his days in a home for orphans and vulnerable children, teaching English and playing soccer with the kids. Mary taught English and math at a nearby primary school. "It was an incredible experience for us to share," says Jamie of the trip they booked through Cross-Cultural Solutions ... "To do something like this, to share such an important, meaningful, experience has strengthened our relationship."
Washington Square News | Sternies volunteer in Peruvian town
February 10, 2009
The Stern program has partnered with Cross-Cultural Solutions, a non-profit organization that allows participants to take part in various cultural and learning activities, including hiking around the local area, exploring the city and watching a local dance performance at the same elementary school where they worked.
AARP Magazine | The Virtuous Vacation
June 15, 2007
My wife, Karen, and I stand sweating in a stuffy classroom, ready to help teach English. We’re in Costa Rica on a volunteer vacation through Cross-Cultural Solutions (CCS), a nonprofit working in 12 countries. Giggling third graders fidget behind long desks, but there’s no sign of the teacher we’re here to assist. Karen and I assume we’ll be English aides...
The New York Times | For Those Who Aid Others, Tourist Doesnt Tell the Whole Story
November 13, 2006
Anne McMullin of San Francisco said she did not know what to expect when she and her 11-year-old son, Nicholas, signed up for a two-week stint in Salvador, Brazil, with Cross-Cultural Solutions, a volunteer travel organization. All she knew was that she wanted to forgo what she called the life-of-privilege way of traveling and go a little deeper.
MORE Magazine | Going Away, Finding Yourself [PDF]
May 15, 2006
Soul-searching usually precedes signing up for a volunteer vacation, according to Virginia Burmester, the country director in Guatemala for Cross-Cultural Solutions. She says, “Many women we see feel they’re missing something. Children leave. Some have gone through a recent divorce—as one put it, ‘I found myself having breakfast alone after 27 years of marriage.’
Toronto Star | Volunteers Use Vacations Abroad to Change Lives
May 21, 2005
While her friends will be working at summer jobs or hanging out at the mall — as is the usual rite of passage for your last summer before university — 18-year-old Navarro's wish is to be in Arusha, Tanzania doing something a little different.
Travel + Leisure | Going the Distance
February 15, 2004
By now, Melanie knows what to expect. She gave up her apartment and quit her job to spend the past five months on one CCS trip after another, moving from an orphanage in Brazil to a home for the mentally disabled in Thailand to here, the Indian countryside.
