DWC team leader Dan Couture holds up a child of Chamcar Bei, Cambodia, where the team volunteered in 2008. (Jennifer Farquharson)By Carmen Kuntz
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Summer is coming and, for some students, that means filling a backpack and boarding a plane to participate in a much preferred form of post-secondary education: travelling.
For many, following the well-beaten path to typical tourist destinations or drinking out of buckets on a beach in Asia is where it’s at. But, for 20 UVic students, it means joining the Canadian non-profit volunteer organization Developing World Connections (DWC) and a team of like-minded people to work in under-developed villages across the globe with a community in need.
DWC is a volunteer-driven, registered, Canadian charity with no religious, political or professional affiliations. Founded in Kamloops B.C. in 2004, this relatively young organization offers students, families and adult groups a chance to travel while participating in sustainable community development projects like digging wells, building schools and helping communities become self-reliant.
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