Share your photos from your Challenges Abroad Trip this Summer!  Unleash your inner creative artist and submit the photos and videos you captured during your time abroad for the chance to win. Follow Challenges Abroad on instagram and use the hashtag #ChallengesAbroad to enter... Continue Reading

At Challenges Abroad we are proud of the world leaders that have committed to 17 Global Goals. On September 25th, 2015 the United Nations officially enacted the Sustainable Development Goals. END Extreme Poverty…FIGHT inequality & injustice…FIX climate change. Image from... Continue Reading

Home, train, work. Work, train, home. Repeat. This is the life I was living for many years before I left for Cambodia. I was lacking inspiration, beauty, adventure, and most of all, a sense of connection with the world and people around me. My co-workers we like a second family,... Continue Reading

Student Engagement Manager Are you passionate about volunteering and taking part in service overseas? Have you travelled and volunteered overseas yourself? Do you believe you have what it takes to engage students to join an overseas volunteer or internship opportunity? If you... Continue Reading

In my last post I mentioned that I believed there was a loss of community in Western society and that the FutureSense Foundation partner hill-tribe villages in Northern Thailand offer a unique example of this lost sense of community. However this comes at a cost and an isolated... Continue Reading

The word ‘community’, is perhaps a word that we folks in the twenty first century Western society see as a little outdated. A word thats meaning used to apply to everyday life, as we as a society used to help and support one another in a neighborly sense, but now it seems more... Continue Reading

“That’s the fattest fish I have ever seen” I blurt out with a snigger, perhaps not the reaction that Phra maha Ake, a monk and resident at Wat Nong Bua, had anticipated when he took me to the delightfully scenic pier to pay merit for the first time. What can I... Continue Reading

While sitting between a group of Chiang Mai locals on my first yellow song tao (Chiang Mai’s local bus system) I feel an aura of excitement and intrigue for what the next few months may hold while working in the Doi Saket district, a part of Thailand that I am unfamiliar with. ... Continue Reading

Over Easter, my colleague Jack and I were fortunate enough to have the opportunity to head out to Romania to visit the projects that the FutureSense Foundation is supporting, and to see the work that our fantastic volunteers would be doing this summer. I wanted to take this... Continue Reading