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As a parent, my daughter's experience was cut short and she had to return home wasting her money entirely. This is due to the appalling, disgusting living conditions she was put in, beds infested with bloody sheets, bed bugs and cockroaches, nobody home at the billet house she was put into so she could discuss getting cleaner living conditions, food served to her by someone hired by the people that owned the home, which consisted of pasta with spiders crawling out of it...and then being asked to...

IVHQ does a wonderful job preparing their volunteers with online orientations, answering questions, and partnering with the local teams once in country. Not speaking Spanish put me at a disadvantage once in country, and I had to quickly learn bus schedules, money, and cultural norms. The Teaching English project in Manuel Antonio was less meaningful than I expected, as I was assigned to teach a local family. The only other project of its kind is in a church after-school program with one hour ...