igoMANGO  connectivity brings the opportunity to open another thread of your life ... far from your current home. The projects we support in Central America  for example are all based in small communities, experiencing life at its simplest level - traditions of farming, fishing, cooking, arts and crafts. You won’t be a tourist, or living apart in a expedition camp, you will be absorbed into the local pattern of life - eating, sleeping, talking, and sometimes squabbling with local families, all under one roof.  The contacts and friends you make will be there forever if you want them to be. We encourage you to return, and so many of our volunteers do, giving you that sense of local ownership and roots which is so satisfying.

Language can be a serious barrier to initiating making social connections, so we encourage and help on pre-trip learning, and taking classes from local schools while you are abroad. More than this, we encourage our NGO partners to mix volunteer groups to always include some members who are fluent in the local language, catalysing the process of social integration.

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