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Butterfly Garden Project in Costa Rica

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…both flora and fauna found in a given area. For example, Costa Rica is home to 205 known mammal species while the U.S. is home to 428, but the United States is almost 193 times larger than Costa Rica! That is a lot of species in a small place! No wonder Costa Ricans care about conservation and sustainability. Twenty-five percent of all of Costa Rica’s land is protected areas. Costa Rica is home to over 1, 200 species of butterflies! The butterfly garden helps preserve this important resource. The most famous butterfly in Costa Rica is the Blue Morpho, with a wingspan of up to 15 cm and bright neon-blue iridescent wings. Related to all of this wonderful biodiversity is a special project volunteers will be working on in Santa Elena, Costa Rica from March 4 – 18, 2017. Our… (Search hits: 31 in body, 2 in title, %category% in categories, 0 in tags, %taxonomy% in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 36531.45)

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Costa Rica Service Program is a “Full-Body Sensory Experience”

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By Jan, Costa Rica Global Volunteer. Quote of the Day: If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. -Confucius Reflections on our two weeks at Colegio Tecnico Profesional de Santa Elena, Costa Rica: Thinking about our last day as well as the two weeks at Colegio and Santa Elena, so many impressions cross my mind, that I found they can best be expressed using several generalizations: what I remember seeing, hearing, smelling, and feeling. Seeing Lush, thick, green vegetation in dense forests Pink clouds and rainbows in the cloud mist that rolls across the hills Nicoya Gulf in the distance Flora: heliconias, orchids, bromeliads, palm trees, strangler figs, ferns Fauna: birds asleep on trees at night, leaf cutter ants in… (Search hits: 8 in body, 2 in title, %category% in categories, 0 in tags, %taxonomy% in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 10195.04)

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Family Volunteering Abroad and in The USA

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…the United States. Global Volunteers offers family programs all around the world including China, Vietnam, Poland, Mexico, Peru and Tanzania.” “It was all we had hoped for and more. From the very start, the Global Volunteer staff was attentive to our needs and made a conscious effort to assure that we understood the intricacies of volunteering as a family.” “My experiences with Vanessa, Ben, and Alex in Costa Rica, Poland, Greece, China, Brazil, and Africa have been life-defining. I have been taught first-hand the power and selflessness of human compassion, and that the political, cultural, or religious variants in life are secondary to human solidarity and well-being.” Family volunteering opportunities are described on our blog: Video: Volunteering Abroad as a Family News Story: Grandma/Grandson Duo in Cuba Magazine Story: Family Service Vacations Magazine: The Feldstein Family in the Cook Islands… (Search hits: 6 in body, 0 in title, %category% in categories, 0 in tags, %taxonomy% in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 9970.96)

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Saluting Global Volunteers With a Strong Passion for Service in 2019

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…another 19 times internationally: Cook Islands 8, St. Lucia 2, Costa Rica 1, Ireland 1, Austria 1, Mexico 1, Greece 1, Tanzania 1, India 1, Vietnam 1, Portugal 1, Cuba 1. LuRue Troyer’s first service program with Global Volunteers was in China in April of 1997. In total, LuRue has now served on 20 service programs worldwide: China 3, India 3, Cook Islands 2, Vietnam 2, Costa Rica 1, Cuba 1, Poland 1, Ireland 1, Tanzania 1, Nepal 1, the USA- Arizona 1, South Dakota 2, Minnesota 1. Sue Surma first served with Global Volunteers in Guatemala in March of 1989. Sue has since served as a team member or Volunteer Team Leader on a total of 27 service programs across the globe: Cuba 4, India 3, Costa Rica 3, Ireland 2, Cook Islands 1, Vietnam 1, Guatemala 1, Ecuador… (Search hits: 27 in body, 0 in title, %category% in categories, 0 in tags, %taxonomy% in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 5834.6)

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Saluting Global Volunteers With a Strong Passion For Service in FY2020

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…Global Volunteers: Three in Poland and one each in India and Peru. Jane Durkee served on her sixth Global Volunteers program in November 2019 in Nepal. Before that, she volunteered in Ghana, South Africa, Peru, Vietnam, and the Cook Islands. Judy and Peter Jonas first served with Global Volunteers in Costa Rica in 2006. To date, they have served together on eight service programs across the globe: Twice in St. Lucia and once in Costa Rica, Peru, Mexico, Cuba, Portugal, and New Mexico. Mel Katzmann completed her seventh service program with Global Volunteers in November 2019 in Nepal. She has previously served twice in Cuba and Vietnam, and once in Ireland and Montana. Diane Lindy Dorothy Mason Tom McMahon Rene Moquin Marianne Poblenz Linda Roberts Shirley Sauvageau Bluma Schechter Diane Lindy’s first adventure in service was in Montana in 2013…. (Search hits: 21 in body, 0 in title, %category% in categories, 0 in tags, %taxonomy% in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 4588.23)

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Saluting Global Volunteers With a Strong Passion For Service in 2019 (Part 3)

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…Global Volunteers in March 2019 in Cuba. Before that, Jane volunteered in St. Lucia, Italy, India, and Vietnam. Kurt Jaeger has taken part in five service programs with Global Volunteers. His first was in West Virginia in 2005; he has also served in Costa Rica twice and Cuba and Peru each once. Sharon Knutson enjoys serving in our Latin American host communities. She first served with Global Volunteers in Mexico in 1997. Since then, Sharon volunteered two more times in Mexico and once each in Ecuador and Peru. Tom Kromroy’s first service program with Global Volunteers was in Costa Rica in 2006. To date, Tom has served five times with Global Volunteers, in Costa Rica, Cook Islands, India, St. Lucia, and West Virginia. “If you have the courage to connect with people from different races, nationalities, backgrounds, cultures, and regions,… (Search hits: 14 in body, 0 in title, %category% in categories, 0 in tags, %taxonomy% in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 3171.79)

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What’s your state’s most popular volunteer location? (infographic)

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…Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio – join other Midwestern volunteers in China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Montana (MT), Poland, Romania and Tanzania. Volunteer at a community pottery cooperative in Cuba Southwest: If you’re from the Southwest U.S. – New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, and Oklahoma – your neighbors prefer serving in Costa Rica, Poland, Romania, and West Virginia (WV). Southeast: Those living in the Southeast – Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, or Florida – most often choose Costa Rica, Greece, Italy, Montana (MT), Poland, Romania, and Tanzania for their volunteer vacations. Serve and experience life on an American Indian reservation alongside Glacier National Park in Montana Northeast: Northeasterners  – in Maryland, Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania, Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Jersey – largely volunteer in Costa Rica, Italy, Montana (MT), Poland, Tanzania, and… (Search hits: 10 in body, 0 in title, %category% in categories, 0 in tags, %taxonomy% in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 2265.56)

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An Inspiring Couple Volunteers 8 times Together!

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…were interesting places near the volunteer sites like Machu Picchu in Peru or the Galapagos offshore from Ecuador, we would visit them after our volunteer weeks were complete. Some highlights of our 8 volunteer projects include: Jim shows photos of his family in China In the Romanian orphanage, getting 18 month old Sari to jump up and down for the first time in her life. She had the biggest smile on her face. Talking personally with the women elementary school English teachers in China about women’s rights, how it is to vote for the President of the United States, and celebrating Christmas with them. It was December 25th. In Costa Rica, watching Spanish speaking Costa Rican children and English speaking American children play ball together, laughing, and enjoying each other. Language and culture presented no barriers. Global Volunteers has given… (Search hits: 6 in body, 0 in title, %category% in categories, 0 in tags, %taxonomy% in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 1359.34)

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