#thaqafat

Volunteering with a network of NGOs and social entrepreneurs

Working at the psychiatric hospital in Sale is difficult to describe in part because there were so many different entities and...

Expedition: "The Arab World Beyond The Headlines"

As part of the 10-day UBLEONG Expedition, participants spent the morning volunteering in a different community and spent the afternoon...

Expedition: The team

My arrival in Morocco happened to coincide perfectly with an expedition called, “The Arab World: Beyond the Headlines” that UBELONG was...

Orientation: Salam Rabat

Day 1: It was lucky that I checked out of the Hotel Darna early because the hotel only accepted cash payments (something I had asked...

ABOUT ME

Salut! My name is Tessa, and I am spending the next five months pushing past my cultural, culinary and comfort confines to travel solo through Europe and Northern Africa. I will be stationed for three of these months in Morocco's capital city of Rabat, where I will be volunteering in a mental health clinic, serving Morocco's large population of disadvantaged youth and practicing my French. Follow my personal and professional journey as I describe my life in the palmeraies.