Tag Archives: volunteering

Running down Mt. Kilimanjaro

By Roadmonkey | Published September 25, 2013

by Diana Kilby (a 2011 Tanzania roadmonkey) My ascent of Kilimanjaro is something that some people can relate too; but my descent is something that few people have seen or experienced. I decided I would run down the trail to the main gate, the day after the Roadmonkey team had summited Mt. Kilimanjaro. I had […]

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A Peru Adventure Travel Experience ‘One Notch Up’

By Roadmonkey | Published August 20, 2013

by Andrea Guzman In early 2011, I found myself in need of a challenge – I wanted to travel, see something gritty and real and also give back in a meaningful way. One day, flipping through Oprah magazine in a doctor’s office, I saw an article on Paul von Zielbauer, the Roadmonkey founder, and his […]

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How to Build a Fence With a Machete & Other Lessons

By Roadmonkey | Published July 26, 2013

By Maya Seaman When Reyes Vado decided his garden’s newly built fence needed an access gate, he bent down and grabbed, of course, his machete. It’s amazing what a machete can do in the hands of an expert like Vado, a typically sweet, wire-framed Nicaraguan who works in a local salt mine. Or the damage […]

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On the Road to Sustainability, In Liberia

By Roadmonkey | Published August 13, 2012

by Julie Thiery Last month, I spent two weeks in rural Liberia with the The Niapele Project, a nonprofit organization focused on sustainably improving the lives of impoverished children. I spent most of my time outside of Monrovia, in the town of Handii, in what is known as Lower Bong County. I focused much of my energy […]

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Roadmonkey in Vietnam: CNN’s Story Behind the Story

By Roadmonkey | Published March 19, 2012

Remember the CNN segment on the ethnic Khmer community in Vietnam we built a playground for? (If you don’t scroll down; it’s our first blog post.) CNN also ran this segment – a reporter’s notebook, video style – from correspondent Natalie Allen, a roadmonkey who carried her camera around for two weeks in Vietnam during […]

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CNN Shows Our Adventure Philanthropy In Action

By Roadmonkey | Published February 16, 2012

CNN-International and CNN.com this week broadcast a special report that shows what Roadmonkey does and why. To be clear, the focus of this report, below, is not on us but rather on a quietly desperate community of ethnic Khmer people who have lived for years on a garbage dump in a forgotten corner of Vietnam’s […]