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Millie Pinakoulaki

About Millie Pinakoulaki

Dimitra "Millie" Pinakoulaki responds to inquiries resulting from website listings, and researches social media opportunities and trends. Millie began assisting her mother, Country Manager Sam Pinakoulaki, as a child on Global Volunteers teams in the early 2000s. She earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics and a Master’s in Economic Theory and Policy from the University of Crete. She also recently finished a two-month internship in Istanbul, where she developed a needs assessment for an NGO.

Entries by Millie Pinakoulaki

Development Impact Vietnam

English Helps Visually Impaired Adults Develop Careers in Massage Therapy

Relatively little research is available on the well-being of the large population of visually impaired or blind adults in Vietnam. Global Volunteers’ partner, Blind-Link, a social entrepreneurship program, professionally trains blind young Vietnamese adults for a career in massage therapy, affording them the opportunity to significantly elevate their lives.  In this interview, two Blind-Link staff […]

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December 28, 2022/by Millie Pinakoulaki
Staff Worldwide

Your Guide to Volunteer Travel in Peru

Diego Acosta was born in Arequipa, in the south of Peru. At age three, his family moved to Lima, where he was raised and attended school. He became Global Volunteers’ team leader in 2022, after serving as our English translator for four years. In cooperation with our community partners in Peru, Diego leads all teams serving at Sagrada […]

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October 25, 2022/by Millie Pinakoulaki
Ripple Effect St Lucia

Her Supporters Pay it Forward with St. Lucia Program Donations

Alumni Karen Isaac had just retired from 30 years of teaching elementary school when she saw “the most amazing photos” of Global Volunteers in St. Lucia posted on Facebook by her friend Gila Cohen-Shaw. An enthusiastic Global Volunteers alumna, Gila had “crowdsourced” the funds for her service program and encouraged Karen to follow suit. What […]

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April 24, 2022/by Millie Pinakoulaki
Service-Learning Tanzania

HOW MY SERVICE IN TANZANIA FORMED MY IDENTITY

In collaboration with the Hairston Foundation, we conducted a Facebook Live interview with Sophia Hairston who joined Global Volunteers’ Reaching Children Potential Program in Tanzania. In this interview, Sophia emphasizes the importance of service especially after the pandemic, described how a day looks like for a volunteer in Tanzania, shares her experience and lessons, and […]

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August 26, 2021/by Millie Pinakoulaki
Volunteer Voices Poland

Returning to International Service as a Statement of Courage and Compassion

The Covid-19 pandemic has led to far-reaching consequences for children and their families in the communities we serve. Volunteers are needed now more than ever to help deliver essential services and support our community partners as they get back on their feet. Those who joined our first programs back or who are registered to volunteer […]

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July 22, 2021/by Millie Pinakoulaki
Group Volunteering, Service-Learning Tanzania

Global Volunteers Promises Service Adventure With Group Volunteering in Tanzania

Along the dusty, bumpy East African roads outside Iringa in the central highlands of Tanzania are traditional villages where life is lived in startling simplicity. Arriving in Ipalamwa in the Ukwega Ward, two teams of physical therapy students from Regis University Global Health Pathways group found a way of life vastly different from their own, […]

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May 1, 2021/by Millie Pinakoulaki
Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

Hunger and Poor Nutrition are Secondary Impacts of COVID-19 in Developing Communities

COVID-19 has already cost the lives of more than 700,000 people across the world, with case numbers continuing to rise above 14.4 million (World Health Organization – WHO, 19 July 2020), but the impact of the pandemic isn’t limited to deaths. A new report from United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) warns that the hunger […]

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August 16, 2020/by Millie Pinakoulaki
Development Impact

Celebrating International Youth Day During a Global Pandemic

With youth aged 24 years and under composing around 40% of the total global population, skills development for children worldwide is crucial. That’s why Global Volunteers programs focus on helping children reach their full potential – from providing prenatal care so mothers can deliver healthy babies, and offering early childhood interventions to teaching conversational English […]

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August 12, 2020/by Millie Pinakoulaki
Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

Work With us to Help Achieve ZERO HUNGER in Tanzania

Global Volunteers is committed to helping achieve zero hunger, improved health, and enhanced cognition in the Ukewga Ward of Tanzania so village children can reach their full potential. In 2017, at the invitation of and in cooperation with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania, we established the Reaching Children’s Potential Program (RCP) – a child-focused, […]

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July 28, 2020/by Millie Pinakoulaki
Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

Worldwide Efforts Toward Zero Hunger – An Overview

Imagine what your life would be like if you didn’t know when your next meal will be. And, this would happen every day – day after day and week after week. That’s how one in nine of the people in the world live. And, it’s the reality for many people in our partner communities. Global […]

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July 15, 2020/by Millie Pinakoulaki
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