Do-gooder vacations: these earth-friendly groups offer volunteer trips that may change your life—not to mention someone else's!

Do-gooder vacations: these earth-friendly groups offer volunteer trips that may change your life—not to mention someone else's!
Shape, April, 2006 by Gabrielle Gayagoy
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AMERICAN HIKING SOCIETY (from $130; american hiking.org) Build and repair trails for hikers around the U.S.

EARTHWATCH INSTITUTE (from $2,195; earthwatch.org) Aid research projects like recording whale songs or weighing turtles.

GLOBAL VOLUNTEERS (from $1,900; global volunteers.org) Build homes, teach English and more in the U.S. or abroad.

VOLUNTEERS FOR PEACE (from $250; vfp.org) Join a work camp that tutors children, repairs schools--you name it.

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