Host country venturers

On each of our expeditions we aim to involve volunteers from the host country. Read their stories to find out how they got on.

Interested? Find out more about our host country participant programmes in India, Borneo and Costa Rica & Nicaragua.

Ana Corrales, from San Jose, wanted the opportunity to meet new people and improve her English. She joined Raleigh International on expedition to Costa Rica & Nicaragua in the autumn of 2011 on their host country venturer programme.
Read more about her experience.

Ricky Cheah Keat Yew from Kuala Lumpur was studying for a diploma in finance. He wanted to find out his interests and he went on expedition to Borneo in the summer of 2011 through the Host Country Venturer programme.
Read more about his experience.

Vanessa Torres from Nicaragua was studying accountancy at university and she lived on a farm with her parents. She went on expedition to Costa Rica & Nicaragua in the spring of 2011, through the Host Country Venturers Programme.
Read more about her experience.

Daniel Husni from Kuala Lumpur had just finished his first year at the International Medical University in Kuala Lumpur. He went on expedition to Borneo in the spring of 2011 through the Host Country Venturer programme.
Read more about his experience.

June Yin Tan from Selangor, Malaysia, went on expedition with Raleigh International to Borneo in the summer of 2011 with the Host County Venturer’s programme. She wanted to see more of Sabah and to go on an adventure!
Read more about her experience.

Werner Amador from Nicaragua had studied psychology engineering and he owned his own business maintaining computers. He wanted to improve his social skills and applied to Raleigh International to go on expedition to Costa Rica & Nicaragua in the summer of 2011 through the Host Country Venturers programme.
Read more about his experience.

Otto Kikut from Costa Rica was studying Physics at the Universidad de Costa Rica. He wanted to do something different so joined an expedition with Raleigh International to Costa Rica & Nicaragua in the summer of 2011 through their Host Country Venturer programme.
Read more about his experience.