CROSSROAD is a committed, reliable and experienced leader in the field of international volunteering travel, providing a wide range of exciting and rewarding opportunities to assist communities in developing countries worldwide. The CROSSROAD global community is committed to excellence in all that we do; we strive to engage and stimulate volunteers with a meaningful adventure, embarking on inspirational volunteering projects while simultaneously embracing cross-cultural exchanges and breath-taking journeys to some of the world's most exotic destinations.
Our philosophy and principles are fused within our approach to global volunteering; CROSSROAD's mission is to offer affordable volunteer travel to help mobilize and facilitate all those who wish to embark on the expedition of a lifetime, without sacrificing volunteer safety, support, program quality or flexibility. We offer individuals with the opportunity to engage in truly affordable global travel, thus enabling them to immerse themselves within the different cultures of diverse countries, all the while making a difference through authentic international volunteering experiences which connect the volunteer with local community members and grassroots organizations within their host community.
CROSSROAD strives to fuel a connection amongst the universal population, in Moreover, in aspiring to unite a universal community, we faithfully pay homage and express our love and dedication to both Canada and Tamil Eelam, as true unity exists only within diversity and bears no correlation with national boundaries, nor government or political ideologies. Our music is simply a medium of sending energetic and spirited information to our youth; serving as a stimulating and invigorating catalyst of unveiling and spreading the sole inspirational message of positive motivation to the world!as true unity exists only within diversity and bears no correlation with national boundaries, nor government or political ideologieswhich true unity exists only within embracing diversity and bears no correlation to national boundaries, government, nor political ideologies. CROSSROAD aims to broaden consciousness regarding the critical issues that developing countries face, whilst increasing education regarding the impact and importance that needs-based volunteer assistance programming bears for such communities. CROSSROAD endeavours to improve the standard of healthcare and education, to conserve the environment through sustainable means, and to create opportunities for the local communities in which we serve; CROSSROAD believes in seeking sustainable humanitarian solutions and empowering the local community members so that they have the means to manage the projects that impact their own community.
We strive not only to touch the lives of those living within the communities we serve, but also, the lives of each and every individual CROSSROAD volunteer who embraces the global volunteering movement. CROSSROAD's unique projects provides for a twofold learning and cultural exchange experience, in which local community members are exposed to the knowledge and skilfulness of the international volunteer, and in turn, where the volunteer is immersed within a novel culture and has first-hand exposure to global issues and meaningful projects that embrace local community members. The time, energy, and efforts of a volunteer bear a continuous positive and constructive impact within the local community that he or she serves, however, the experience as a whole often has a considerably significant impact on the volunteer as well, one which does not cease to thrive once the volunteer returns home. Rather, the volunteer brings that treasured experience back to their home country with them and continues to flourish in personal discovery and growth.
Prior to the conception of CROSSROAD, the founding members of CROSSROAD had worked alongside many international organisations and received a plethora of training by joining work camps and mobilising more than 7,500 international volunteers and travellers. Throughout their extensive experience in inter-cultural programs, volunteerism and social service work, the CROSSROAD founders were continuously astounded by the sheer expense of substandard volunteer travel packages that were offered by international volunteer organizations to the public - most packages well in the range of thousands of dollars. The founders became frustrated with the notion that volunteer travel was inaccessible to the vast majority given extremely high program fees and the lack of quality projects. It was their intense belief that high-quality and safe international volunteer travel should be accessible and affordable to all longing to make a change within developing countries that brought the founding members of CROSSROAD together, in which the catalyst for change within the international volunteering camp began, and CROSSROAD was born.
The founding members of CROSSROAD strongly believe that to make a change, you have to actively be a part of that change. As such, they decided that to be an effective leader and model of international volunteering development, they had be where the need is. The members decided to establish their base camp of operations in India, a country that they had previously fallen in love with during a volunteering mission, and as such, relocated their lives to a foreign land in hopes of providing aid in the lives of millions.
CROSSROAD was successfully registered in India in 2011 (Registration Identity Number: U63000HR2011PTC043838). As an avid supporter of volunteerism and the importance it bears for the communities in which it is executed, CROSSROAD had decided it was time to expand the horizon of its volunteer work from a national basis to a global one. Given the intercontinental success of CROSSROAD's volunteering programs within India, and the experience of the founders within the field of global volunteering, CROSSROAD reached further and expanded its programs to include Nepal and Sri Lanka. Today, CROSSROAD has successfully expanded worldwide and offers its safe, quality, flexible and affordable programs to aid communities in need within Cambodia, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Argentina, and Guatemala, making us one of the world's fastest growing international volunteer organizations. By 2022-2023, CROSSROAD has plans to further span the breadth of our international presence by offering our affordable and high-quality programs in Vietnam, Indonesia. The change has only begun, and CROSSROAD will not stop until the world stands united. Today, CROSSROAD has translated its dream into the reality for thousands of individuals, and is convinced that one day, it will be the reality of millions worldwide.
CROSSROAD's head office continues to operate in New Delhi, India - remaining in the heart of it all, where it all began. Nevertheless, CROSSROAD is actively involved in all of its global programs and has experienced and dedicated staff worldwide working year-round, all of who are committed to CROSSROAD's ideology of aiding developing countries by way of affordable quality programs that target global critical issues.
As aforementioned, despite being the world's most affordable volunteer travel organization, CROSSROAD refuses to sacrifice volunteer safety and program quality; we will not allow our volunteers to be situated within unsafe, unhygienic and low-quality placements. CROSSROAD carefully screens and selects all of its staff members, project coordinators and partner organizations to ensure that the CROSSROAD community is comprised of individuals who share CROSSROAD's vision of global unity through high-quality and safe assistance programming. The directors of CROSSROAD have personally inspected, selected and experienced each and every one of our global projects and accommodation sites to ensure that all CROSSROAD volunteers will work within safe communities, while residing in sanitary conditions and receiving nutritious meals. CROSSROAD continuously evaluates its projects and host sites, and is committed to providing meaningful volunteering projects, compassionate host families, and the reliable and continuous assistance of staff members and local in-country coordinators within the communities we serve.