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Join an Inaugural Team to Vietnam!
Offer your heart and hands to Vietnamese youth! This new development partnership is with the Department of International Cooperation in the Ministry of Education and Training to teach conversational English to high school and university students in Hanoi. Inaugural teams, beginning July 26, September 27, and November 22, 2008, will teach 12- to 17-year-olds at Nguyen Binh Khiem High School, and college students at Hanoi University and the prestigious Foreign Trade University. Programs will resume in March 2009 and next summer at an English language summer camp for orphaned kids at the SOS Children's Village. Experienced educators are especially needed although any native English speaker can teach conversational English. Volunteers with professional expertise in economics, law, business and finance are also needed for special teaching assignments at the university level. The service program fee is $2,595 for a two-week program and $2,195 for a one-week program, after an internet discount. Additional discounts are available for former volunteers, students and groups.
Continue to read more about our new Vietnam program
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Volunteers Advance Committment to U.N.
As an NGO in Consultative Status with the United Nations, Global Volunteers supports the Millennium Development Goals and collaborates with host communities to work towards eroding extreme poverty, reducing child mortality, advancing primary education, improving maternal health, reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS and malaria, and helping develop a global partnership for development. A "blueprint" agreed to by all the world's countries and leading development institutions lays out strategies for accomplishing these goals by 2015. Each of our service programs help us "keep the promise" to extend development assistance to host partners in the areas outlined by the Millennium Development Goals. As a team member, you are a vital link in the chain of service worldwide. Consistent with the principles of community-driven development, Global Volunteers assists with direct service projects identified by our host partners in our annual planning discussions. For instance, already in 2008, our teams have taught conversational English to more than 10,000 students in primary schools to universities and supplied hundreds of books to schools and libraries (see next article); provided some 10,000 hours of direct child care to at-risk babies and youth; helped improve and repair more than 40 community structures; and helped local health care aides provide pre-natal care, dental check-ups, diabetes screenings, and contributed to HIV-AIDS treatment plans. Watch this space for quarterly updates on our MDG commitment.
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Help Meet Tanzania School Committment!
As a true partner in development with our host communities around the world, Global Volunteers takes on several special requests from our host partners each year. We always do our very best to promise only what we know we have a good chance to deliver, and to be the very best steward with our volunteers' very generous contributions. Last summer, Global Volunteers CEO Bud Philbrook returned from Tanzania with an assignment: Help the Pommern Secondary School Headmaster buy books for his students. We embarked on an ambitious drive to raise funds so our hosts could purchase all the books needed for the school. We quickly reached our goal, and purchased books last fall. What a happy day it was! Read on for the fall, 2007 book drive update. Yet, the need is ever-growing, and again, we're undertaking the goal of raising $4,000 to complete our commitment to provide basic resources for the grateful students. Won't you help? Please donate here: Thank you!
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Peru Orphanage Graduates Highlighted
Three new graduates of the Puericultorio Perez Aranibar (PPA) in Lima, Peru recently were afforded a boost for a successful future through Global Volunteer's sponsorship program. Global Volunteers has seen the value of volunteer care, and the profound effect PPA staff have had on at-risk children who come from very difficult circumstances in poor Lima neighborhoods. They so greatly thrive under the love and care of those dedicated to their growth. However, at age18, these "graduates" must leave the care of the PPA. For many, the orphanage has been their only home, and despite their maturity, this transition is very difficult. Seeing this need, Global Volunteers past team members appealed to Global Volunteers for a program to extend our care beyond the students' 18th year. As a result, we worked throughout 2007 with a committee of PPA staff to give an opportunity for PPA students with great potential to receive a higher education through donations for this purpose. The Peru Sponsorship Program provides encouragement and funding to students whose economic situation preventis them from fulfilling their dreams. These sponsored students also provide an inspiration for the younger students at the PPA to study hard, so that they too may have the chance for a degree. Read on about this volunteer-initiated new Global Volunteers program here.
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25th Anniversary Planning Underway
January 2009 marks Global Volunteers' 25th anniversary of service worldwide. As in 2004, we're planning a year-long celebration in all our host communities and at our headquarters in St. Paul, Minn. We invite all volunteers, their families, and those interested in lending a hand to us for these promotions. This is a great time for you to contribute a little bit of your time and skills in person or online to help us reach out to all regions of the world where our partnerships thrive! Among some of the activities we're planning: A historical look back at all our development partnerships; Web-based country photo albums; Regional U.S. receptions; Volunteer profiles of frequent team members; Special events on-site in host communities. If you have an interest in any of these activities, ideas for Anniversary events, or skills in any of the following areas, please contact Global Volunteers Co-founder Michele Gran to join our Anniersary committee! We need volunteers in these areas:
Graphics design -- Website design -- Writing and editing -- Events planning Photography -- Songwriting and music -- Advertising and public relations
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"We're links in a long chain of those who have come before
and will follow to help improve the lives of people around the world."
~ Bud Philbrook, Global Volunteers founder and president
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YOUR SUGGESTIONS ARE IMPORTANT TO US
Do you have specific topics you'd like to see in a future issue: Send us your ideas. Since 1984, we've worked alongside local people in every corner of the globe -- laying a foundation for peace through mutual international understanding. In mobilizing thousands of short-term volunteers, we've learned valuable lessons about honoring local customs, methods and perspectives. We hope to share what we've learned with you.
Please e-mail us: linkeditor@glovalvolunteers.org
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