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	<title>PAY IT FORWARD TRIPS</title>
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		<title>Pay it Forward on Nat&#8217;l TV!</title>
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I love it when I have the opportunity to do national television travel segments that really highlight what PAY IT FORWARD is all about and how volunteer vacations can change and inspire lives.
 
 
At FOX News I&#8217;ve already done three different “live” television travel segments. 
The first television appearance was on top rated FOX and Friends and it focused on chapter four [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://payitforwardtrips.com/?p=50</link>
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		<title>Best Volunteer Vacations</title>
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What I love about the Pay it Forward concept is how it changes people. From the moment you take that first selfless step to help another person you set off a chain reaction that days, months and years later continues to impact lives. Here’s one incredible example…
 
This website and blog is all about Paying it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://payitforwardtrips.com/?p=49</link>
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		<title>Gifts That Keep Giving!</title>
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Copyright Karen Schaler All Rights Reserved
This holiday season If you’re searching for a way to combine your love of travel with a gift that gives back TRAVEL THERAPY has some excellent options including a way you can Pay it Forward in the name of a friend or family member!
Here’s the deal.
Ambassadors for Children has set [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://payitforwardtrips.com/?p=48</link>
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		<title>Volunteer Vacations Interview</title>
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With the increasing popularity of volunteer vacations there’s an insatiable appetite for information about these unique trips. Recently the creator of this Pay it Forward Trips website, Emmy award-winning travel writer Karen Schaler, was interviewed for an entire hour about volunteer vacations. Here’s how you can listen in for free to this special interview on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://payitforwardtrips.com/?p=47</link>
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		<title>Sponsor a Child!</title>
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So many people ask what they can do to help. Even if you aren’t able to travel and volunteer your time there is still so much  you can do to help children in need. Here’s how. 
 
I just got this note from the woman who runs the Mtendere orphanage in Malawi, Africa, that I met [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://payitforwardtrips.com/?p=43</link>
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		<title>Dana&#8217;s Volunteer Story</title>
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Every once in awhile you meet someone who truly inspires you and that’s how I felt when I met Dana at the Mtendere Orphanage in Malawi.
 
Dana had first come to the orphanage with her church group and fell in love with the children and the country. She threw her heart into the project and eventually [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://payitforwardtrips.com/?p=45</link>
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		<title>Feed The Children-VitaMeal</title>
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Copyright Karen Schaler All Rights Reserved
During the volunteer trip in Malawi we had a chance to go to a remote village for a food distribution. I was told the chief in the village decides who is the most desperately in need of the food and those selected will get a coveted blue slip of paper. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://payitforwardtrips.com/?p=28</link>
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		<title>Orphan Withdrawl</title>
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Copyright Karen Schaler All Rights Reserved
One of the volunteers on the Malawi trip, Kevin, has traveled the world but came to Malawi on the request of his daughter Ale who picked the trip as something she wanted to do with her father. Also, see Ale’s story in a previous post. The orphans at Mtendere Village [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://payitforwardtrips.com/?p=26</link>
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		<title>Volunteer Returns to Africa</title>
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I knew from the moment I met Erin, when she teared up telling me this was her second trip to the Mtendere Orphanage, that her passion and dedication to helping the children was genuine and heartfelt. 
 
 
She’s a mom who has left her two young daughters at home with their father to come on this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://payitforwardtrips.com/?p=22</link>
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		<title>Africa Photos</title>
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© Copyright Karen Schaler All Rights Reserved
This is the very first photo I took when I arrived at the Mtendere Orphanage in Malawi, Africa, so I knew I was in trouble. BIG trouble because the children were so amazingly beautiful I knew I wouldn’t just be taking dozens of photos on this Travel Therapy trip… I would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://payitforwardtrips.com/?p=12</link>
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