We asked a few of our past travellers to comment on their Camps experience here's what they said:

The most amazing thing for me was to see what a difference I could make to a community... we went back to one of the schools we helped out at towards the end of our trip to give them some books that we had bought for them and check up on some of the work we had done at the start of our trip. Just seeing their faces light up when they saw us was the most incredible and exuberant feeling imaginable.
 The expedition gave me not only a second family with the people I went with (I'm still good friends with the ones I didn't know at the start) but a wider scene of what was going on around me. Since coming back from the expedition I have become a school house captain and the leadership skills developed in Tanzania have been invaluable to me. The expedition also helped me get a job as a Lifegaurd in a local pool as they were impressed that i had been able to not only raise the money but also been driven to make a difference.
In a way I don't want to recommend an expedition... purely for the selfish reason that I want to go back soo badly. Tanzania was the most fantastic month; it had it's ups and downs (namely toilets) but that's life. Being on a camps international expedition allows you to open your eyes and see another way of life that you have missed. Its not easy, but not for a millisecond would I regret any of it. The experience of Tanzania starts right from the moment when you think 'i wonder what Tanzania is like' of course then you go home and google it and you're hooked; everything about it draws you in. Its a once in a lifetime experience but it feels like a lifetime of its own, if that makes any scene. Its isolated and you learn to live with people who you have never met before. You also learn how to shower in a bucket and talk Swahili.   
 There was a girl in my tutor who had gone in a previous year and it was, seriously, all she talked about it. The massi, colors, language, people everything she could relate back to that time in Tanzania. But although it was exceptionally annoying i felt so jealous that she had got to do all these things that i desperately wanted to go... So i started researching into how I could get to go to Tanzania, i looked at loads of different companies but none of them offered what I wanted, a real diverse experience of Tanzania, not the tourist hot spots, real life. Then along came Camps. I had heard of it a couple times before when looking at various companies but never in detail. The real thing that made me choose Camps thought was an assembly given to my school year about what would be doing. The guy talking was so passionate and enthusiastic that it was hard even for the people who decided not to go to say they weren't envious. So that's what did it, for me i mean. I wanted to go with an organisation who felt as passionate about Tanzania as i felt.

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