
Going Green by Liz Gordy
It may seem difficult to know where to start when it comes to being eco-friendly, but it doesn’t need to be. The first and easiest place to start is reducing…
It may seem difficult to know where to start when it comes to being eco-friendly, but it doesn’t need to be. The first and easiest place to start is reducing…
It all started with a big smile, I had a grin the size of a Cheshire Cat when I received the call to say I was an EIL Explore winner…
There were many stereotypes floating around in my head before I arrived in Guatemala. Many of them were about the people I had yet to meet. Needless to say, these…
I travelled to Mexico in a group of seven people whom I got to know well along our journey so I didn’t feel the panic I thought I would when…
My name is Darragh. I am a 17 year old cis male from Cork. In July 2019, I got the opportunity to travel to Denmark to take part in the…
When I first looked over all the Explore awards available for the under eighteens, Ecuador was my first choice simply because I just wanted to be exposed to the Spanish…
When growing up on rural Donegal, you can imagine there wasn’t much opportunity to mix with people of different nationalities, cultures or religions. Where I come from, children are separated…
At the Ayotlcalli Sea Turtle and Conservation centre, locals and volunteers from across the world join forces to save turtles from extinction. I was extremely lucky to work in the…
At the beginning of it all I really didn’t know what to expect. I knew that I was going to be one of forty participants in a programme about youth…