Alana Jenkins

Alana Jenkins

Alana Jenkins quit her job as an Office Manager for a mental health agency in Saint Paul, Minnesota to travel and volunteer in Southeast Asia and Europe. She is volunteering through Workaway and seeking immersive local experiences.

How to communicate your volunteer abroad experience to employers. 
How to reframe the challenge as an opportunity.
One woman shares her journey to embrace self-awareness, and how volunteers can contribute.  
Learning when to give to others and when to give back to yourself.
A farm in Thailand where food and mindfulness grow in abundance. 
When a lost item results in finding something even greater. 
How I turned the idea of an adult gap year into a reality. 

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