My Nonprofit Reviews

My family has been part of the Builders Beyond Borders family since 2010 when my older daughter came home and announced she was going to Ecuador for spring break! The next year my younger daughter joined her and they both traveled to Nicaragua. There were 3 more trips by my younger daughter and when she graduated I signed on as an adult advisor. My kids will tell you that B3 gave them the confidence to be leaders and to try something out of the norm (older daughter is a mechanical engineer thanks to her hands on experiences and the younger is an Ensign in the USCG at the helm of the CGC Alex Haley using the leadership skills she leaned by being a student advisor). I have had 3 amazing trips and have watched the students on my team come together and bring immense joy to the villages we have worked in. We are an electronics free organization which allows the students and adult advisors to form relationships that don't happen naturally anymore, I always get a huge smile when the students from my team reach out after the B3 season to say how much they miss the team.

My older daughter took it upon herself to research B3 and signed on to go to Ecuador in 2011. She took the money from her savings to pay the deposit and raised the remainder through fundraising. She has learned so many life lessons from B3 that I'm not sure where I would start when thanking the organization. Last year she convinced my younger daughter to go with her and they both went to Nicaragua. With the older one now in college the younger one is heading to Guyana as a seasoned B3'er! When we are out and people ask they about their experiences traveling/volunteering with B3 their faces light up like it's Christmas morning. B3 is truly Building a Better World.

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