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By connecting Volunteer Expeditions with a skilled communications professional, WomenOnCall was able to impact the organization on an international scale. Volunteer Expeditions is a small nonprofit that plans volunteer vacations for groups to rebuild communities requesting assistance. The organization recently connected with an opportunity for volunteers to tutor children in Jamaica. The children live in orphanages, and many attend a school for the blind. The tutors are instrumental to their future success. This particular opportunity focused on Christmas activities. Christmas volunteers would need to bring holiday cheer to the children through games, dance contests and traditional treats.

With limited time to recruit participants, Volunteer Expeditions needed to promote the trip as efficiently as possible. The organization turned to WomenOnCall to find a volunteer with experience in writing press releases. Racine Tucker-Hamilton accepted the request and wrote a sparkling press release about the trip. The release outlined the need for volunteers, the benefits to volunteers and the details of the trip, as well as basic information on volunteer vacations. Racine also included a list of outlets where Volunteer Expeditions could submit the release. Through the devoted volunteer efforts of Racine, the organization was able to increase awareness of its work and the new Jamaica volunteer vacation.

About Volunteer Expeditions
Volunteer Expeditions is a nonprofit volunteer travel-planning service developed to assist college students, corporate or faith-based groups in bringing volunteer delegations to communities requesting assistance, such as New Orleans, the Navajo Nation and Jamaica. The nonprofit’s service makes the planning easy and affordable. These community-building travel opportunities are focused on social change, social justice and service learning.

The mission of Volunteer Expeditions is to create a more compassionate world by organizing volunteer trips for groups; to give back to society through service, advocacy and education; to make a positive impact in the communities served; and to bring people of different backgrounds together with a common goal of rebuilding impoverished communities.