Courage in my Carry-On is a personal account of a shy young woman who began travelling and volunteering overseas in Asia and Africa and how it completely changed her life.

Courage in my carry-on is Rachel’s personal story about travelling and volunteering overseas. Rachel was a shy, insecure teenager from New Zealand, but at the age of nineteen boarded a ship that travelled to Sri Lanka and India, and during this time she volunteered at a boy’s orphanage and cleaned wells. A couple of years later, while traveling to Cambodia and Thailand, she saw first-hand the realities of child slavery. In 2016 she began volunteering at a babies home in Uganda. Her travels and life experiences have taught her to overcome her fears and push herself beyond her comfort zone.