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		<title>Feature College Essay: Andrea Paine, GLA Alum, The Dominican Republic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While the usual teenager was wishing for a car, I spend the weeks prior to my sixteenth birthday wishing for an adventure. Not simply a road trip away from my small hometown, but something more than that. I wished to go on an adventure out of the United States to a third world country on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Featured Essay:  Miguel Mendez, GLA Alum, The Galapagos Islands &#8211; A Change in Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mud splatters with each step down the slippery path. I cling to the closest wooden posts, avoiding the barbed wire at my sides.  My heavy breathing does not allow me to hear the surroundings. The sign, LA ESPERANZA HACIENDA, grows larger as I approach on the winding path. At the end of an exhausting trek, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Featured Essay:  Scott Elias, GLA Alum, Guatemala &#8211; Children of the Maya.  Read it!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am not satisfied with procrastination or empty promises. I am not driven by ephemeral inspiration or futile idealism. I do not believe in improving the world through impersonal charity or mere rhetoric, but I believe that we have a moral obligation to improve our world through means that are both meaningful and plausible. This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.experiencegla.com/2011/12/featured-essay-scott-elias-gla-alum-guatemala-children-of-the-maya-read-it/</link>
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		<title>GLA Teams with White House for President&#8217;s Volunteer Service Award</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Global Leadership Adventures Joins With President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation to Deliver President’s Volunteer Service Award Prestigious Award Honors Outstanding Commitment to Volunteer Service San Diego, CA– Global Leadership Adventures today announced it has teamed with the White House to become a Certifying Organization for the President’s Volunteer Service AwardGlobal Leadership Adventures is one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.experiencegla.com/2011/03/gla-teams-with-white-house-for-presidents-volunteer-service-award/</link>
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		<title>How to Choose a High School Summer Program Abroad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Three tips to help parents choose a high school summer program abroad for their teen.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.experiencegla.com/2010/12/how-to-choose-a-high-school-summer-program-abroad/</link>
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		<title>GLA Facebook Video Contest Winners Announced</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We asked our alumni to send in the best videos that could capture their GLA summer experience abroad. We received a video from almost every destination, and we were blown away by the creative skills of our students. We originally planned to select only three winners, but four students did such a supreme job that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.experiencegla.com/2010/11/gla-facebook-video-contest-winners-announced/</link>
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		<title>Essay Contest to Win All-Expense Paid Ecological Volunteer Trip to Costa Rica</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Global Leadership Adventures, which offers life-changing international community service trips for teens, is offering a FREE trip to Costa Rica for ONE deserving high school student this summer. The winner will venture on the all-expense paid 10 day Tropical Ecology &#38; Service program from August 14 to 23, 2010 – a $2,500 value! GLA’s goal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.experiencegla.com/2010/05/essay-contest-to-win-all-expense-paid-ecological-volunteer-trip-to-costa-rica/</link>
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		<title>Canceling Trip to Thailand? Consider Vietnam.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Due to violence in Thailand, many people are cancelling their summer programs to Thailand.  Global Leadership Adventures offers a teen summer program in Vietnam instead.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.experiencegla.com/2010/05/canceling-trip-to-thailand-consider-vietnam/</link>
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		<title>Summer Program Closures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Below you will find a list of our summer programs that are closed, or about to fill. All destination countries still have some available sessions, but certain session dates are full and are now closed. To reserve your spot, simply begin your application here: www.experiencegla.com/apply *Australia* travel through the Outback volunteering with aboriginal communities and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.experiencegla.com/2010/05/summer-program-closures/</link>
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		<title>Featured Program: Organic Farming in UK</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Global Leadership Adventures Program - UK: Organic England - explores those issues through thought-provoking and tasty visits to places in London as well as through hands-on volunteer work at an organic farm in Wales.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.experiencegla.com/2010/03/featured-program-organic-farming-in-uk/</link>
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