GoBeyond Travel - Global Community Service Adventures

GoBeyond is about working toward positive change.  We feel that taking action as an agent for effecting change can help make a lasting difference. Whether in the Caribbean, Europe, Asia, Central or South America, we work in collaboration with local, national and international service organizations to further their goals and aspirations. These relationships enable students to become part of significant, well-established local projects while gaining firsthand knowledge specific to the region and culture in which they are living. Skills and learning are fostered through hands-on participation. Each travel and volunteer program location offers a distinctive focus. Team building, leadership and self-reliance development are natural parts of living and working in a close community with common goals. All GoBeyond travel programs focus on these and are further enhanced during the Lifeworks Forum. Unique to GoBeyond is that when our time is up we are able to offer financial help with a direct donation to the service organizations with which we have worked. This helps fund these and other projects in an ongoing way. Additionally, many U.S. students are enrolled in the President’s Volunteer Service Award – an official recognition from the executive branch of the government for outstanding students in voluntary community service. 

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While taking part in a GoBeyond Project, you are guaranteed to grow from your experience and develop a sense of achievement by doing things of which you never thought yourself capable. It might be from the broadening of knowledge gained through interacting with new people from different cultures or from the feeling that you are doing your part to help. You might also acquire a greater appreciation for the world in which you live and the things that you hold important in your life.

• Students must be between 14 and 18
• Students must meet health status requirements
• Students must have received COVID vaccination

• Open until programs are full

• Online registration 
• Deposit

• Immediate

• Eligibility for our travel scholarship for high school students is based on a number of factors, including financial need, past academic performance, community involvement, and promise of success on the journey. GoBeyond reserves the right to allocate financial awards based on both economic factors and/or program priorities/concerns. The scholarship budget is determined by the GoBeyond Directors, and is allocated from the organization’s operating budget. As students come from all over the world, flight and travel costs are not included at any scholarship level, nor spending money and other additional costs associated with high school travel abroad (vaccinations, doctor visits, visas, etc.).
• Students may apply for anywhere between 10% and 40%, although scholarships fall towards the lower end of the range.
• Scholarships are not available for all programs; scholarship applicants are encouraged to select their top three programs to increase the likelihood of receiving scholarship funds.