backed by over 30 years of experience offering educational programs for youth, lifeworks offers global programs for teens which combine international community service projects with cultural immersion, travel and outdoor adventure.
Lifeworks is about working toward positive change. We feel that taking action can help make a lasting difference.
Whether in the British Virgin Islands, Costa Rica, Galapagos and Ecuador, Thailand, China, India, or Peru we work in collaboration with local service organizations to further their goals and aspirations. These relationships enable students to gain cultural experience while becoming part of significant, well-established projects. Skills and learning are fostered through hands-on participation.
Each program location offers a distinctive focus. Teambuilding, leadership and self-reliance development are natural parts of living and working in close community with common goals. All programs focus on these and are further enhanced during the Lifeworks Forum.
Distinctive to Lifeworks is that, when our time is up, we are able to offer financial help with a direct donation to the service organizations with which we have worked. This helps fund these and other projects in an ongoing way. Additionally, all participants are enrolled in the President’s Volunteer Service Award program — an official recognition system originated by President George Bush, Sr. in 1992, for outstanding students who participate in voluntary community service.
While taking part in a Lifeworks project, you are guaranteed to grow from your experience and develop a sense of achievement by doing things of which you never thought yourself capable. It might be from the broadening of knowledge gained through interacting with new people from different cultures or from the feeling that you are doing your part to help. You might also acquire a greater appreciation for the world in which you live and the things that you hold important in your life.
