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The boomers facing retirement are concerned about having a sense of meaning. They want to create an active community that includes, but not limited, to being a senior volunteer. The boomer generation wants to know they are providing a senior citizens service.
We want to help you create a new retirement where being a citizen, senior active in meaningful activities.
Many boomer's involved in travel with seniors want to volunteer in Looking for a Way to Travel.
For those who don't want a retirement active in travel, learn how you can Volunteer Without Leaving Home.
However you choose to do it, find a way to be active with your community, country, and planet.
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Earthwatch Expedition, Mexican Megafauna
Ed Note: Senior volunteer Warren Strotroen shares his Earthwatch experience as a volunteer abroad in Mexico. By Warren Stortroen This was my second Earthwatch expedition with Oscar, paleontologist and Principal Investigator, from Uni ... |
10,000 Days: A Call to Arms for the Baby Boom Generation
Do you feel like your best years are ahead of you? What will you do with them? When asked, many people at the end of their lives wished they’d found a “purpose to my life”. David Mills, producer and writer for CBS 5’s Weekend Early ... |
Doing Good Work
By Cathy Severson, MS
Roseanne knew she would never retire in the traditional sense of the word. Always active and involved, Roseanne decided to combine her love of books, art and people to establish discussion groups. Since re ... |
Travel & Help Others: Volunteer Abroad!
Have you always enjoyed traveling to destinations around the world and expressed a passion and commitment to volunteering? If so, you are exactly the type of person who may be interested in voluntourism. This relative new term refers to v ... |
Volunteer Without Leaving Home
By Cathy Severson, MSWe live in an amazing world. You can now get involved and make a significant difference without leaving home. Welcome to the world of the virtual volunteer. Virtual volunteering means you can get involved in a v ... |
Volunteer at Organic Farms in Hawaii
We might have the image of the older woman tending her vegetables, but the retirement garden remains one of the most popular activities for the over 50 crowd. Taking care of our bodies becomes more important as does a healthy senior diet. ... |
Earthwatch Institute
It is no secret that the environmental state of our planet has been steadily declining over the past several years. Cries of concern have arisen from all four corners of the Earth in regards to what can be done to salvage our planet’s future from fur ... |
Meals and Lodging Accommodations With Earthwatch
Ed Note: Senior volunteer Warren Strotroen shares his lodging experience with Earthwatch Institute. By Warren StortroenPeople frequently ask me about living conditions with Earthwatch Institute - my answer is that they depend a lot on the ... |
12 Easy Ways to Help Out & Keep Learning
For 78 million Baby Boomers keenly interested in a more active and healthy retirement, lifelong learning through meaningful volunteer community service can be an essential part of their everyday life. “Lifelong learning, combined with such serv ... |
Heifer International Helps to End World Hunger
All around the world, impoverished communities are stricken with the effects of food shortages. World hunger has progressively become a critical issue within many countries. There are, however, ways to reach out and provide aid to those suffering fro ... |
Helping the Bilbies of South Australia
Ed Note: Senior volunteer Warren Strotroen shares his Earthwatch experience as a volunteer abroad in Australia. By Warren Stortroen The sun was just about to set as I settled into the warm sand of a red dune in the Arid Recovery Reserve i ... |
Habitat for Humanity
A recent news article discussed retired senior electricians, plumbers and carpenters who volunteer their time to help build homes. This is a demonstration of retirement life at its best.While every story needs an angle, NBC Nightly News took the stan ... |
Senior Volunteer Helps the Leatherback Sea Turtle
Ed Note: Senior volunteer Warren Stortroen shares his Earthwatch experience as a volunteer abroad in Costa Rica working to protect endangered the leatherback sea turtle. By Warren StortroenThe full moon was low in the west as we finished ... |
Earthwatch Institute Adventures Hidden Kingdom of England
Ed Note: Senior volunteer Warren Strotroen shares his experience with Earthwatch Institute. The windswept moor looked just like any other, with grouse shooting stations scattered along one side and sheep grazing on the hillsides of ... |
Senior Volunteer Involved With Caribbean Archeology
Ed Note: Warren Stortroen is a senior volunteer who shares his Earthwatch Institute experience of an archeology dig in Jamaica.By
Warren Stortroen We were excavating the older of two Taino Indian sites on the Paradise Park estate ... |
Volunteering Abroad Researching Nicaragua Volcano
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Warren Stortroen A continuous cloud of smelly fumes rose from the lake of liquid magma below as we watched from the rim of the crater in Volcan Masaya National Park, just a short distance from Managua, Nicaragua. This was our introductio ... |
Boomers Retirement Means Becoming Senior Volunteers
The boomers retirement is filled with all types of experience. Not only do they want to find time to travel, be engaged with family and friends, but there is also a desire to become senior volunteers. Follow these tips to ensure the best ... |
Senior Volunteers Helps Meerkats of Kalahari
Ed Note: Senior volunteer Warren Stortroen shares his experience with Earthwatch Institute. The meerkats troop led us on a fast-paced afternoon foraging trek, finally going through the fence of the Kurumen River Reserve and into a n ... |
New Mexico Archeology Adventure Earthwatch Institute
Ed Note: Senior volunteer Warren Strotroen shares his experience with Earthwatch Institute. Laura was excavating and I was screening for artifacts at our assigned feature on the Victorio pueblo site when she called me over to look a ... |
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