3 Reasons Volunteering with a Social Innovator is Uniquely Compelling | Ashoka - Innovators for the Public

3 Reasons Volunteering with a Social Innovator is Uniquely Compelling | Ashoka - Innovators for the Public: "International volunteering evokes images of the Peace Corps. That more than 1,000 Peace Corps volunteers have written books about their experience leaves no doubt that international service impacted them deeply.

Universities have caught on. Increasingly, students are participating in international service learning in lieu of a traditional study abroad. But this trend extends beyond the Peace Corps and university students; sabbaticals are a newer expression of volunteerism, where bankers and engineers alike leave behind modern offices to learn in the field.  

Marguerite and Michael Mitterlehner did just that. They spent ten months volunteering with Ashoka Fellows in Kenya, South Africa, Indonesia and India. In so doing, they deepened their understanding of social entrepreneurship and used it as a prism through which to take in cultures, economies and people they encountered."



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