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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.

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Service-Learning, Volunteer Voices Cook Islands

Maine Student’s International Service Changes Her Perspective of Learning and Travel

It might be that there’s no farther point from the Cook Islands in the United States than Maine. But, that didn’t discourage University of Maine Honors College student Lucie Bonneville from traveling to the South Pacific with Global Volunteers. Undaunted by the 7,000 mile journey, she sought to help others in the global community and […]

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September 25, 2019/by Millie Pinakoulaki
Group Volunteering, Service-Learning

Pharmacy Student Volunteer Group Discovers the Reservation

A student volunteer group from the Wegmans School of Pharmacy at St. John Fisher College discovered their week of service on the Rosebud Reservation of South Dakota really does make a difference. Learn from their experience here! Just one week. Would that be enough time to truly have even a little impact on people’s lives […]

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September 18, 2019/by Millie Pinakoulaki
Volunteer Voices

Milestone Anniversary Marks Minnesota Couple’s Service Journey

Global Volunteers Tom and Kathy Kromroy had already served together in the Cook Islands, India and St. Lucia when they decided their “gift” to each other would be to mark their 40th wedding anniversary volunteering in the USA. They said the opportunity to reflect on important moments together while they helped youth and adults brought […]

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August 29, 2019/by Millie Pinakoulaki
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Supporting Children and Families as Volunteer Extends her Professional Satisfaction

Four-time Global Volunteer Gemma Lewis has always been passionate about supporting children and their families. As a Children’s Care Coordinator with the National Health Service in the UK, she works with families of children living with severe disabilities to ensure they receive appropriate physical and emotional interventions. It was with this focus on practical support […]

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July 24, 2019/by Millie Pinakoulaki
Projects for Professionals, Volunteer Voices Peru

Retired Physician’s Love for Children Leads her to Peru Volunteer Service Program

Global Volunteers Alumna Maggi Gallaher said retirement has liberated her to indulge her appetite for volunteering. For her fourth service program, she served at Sagrada Familia, a community in Peru serving 1,400 at-risk children, from one month to 17 years. The community shelters about 600 homeless and abandoned children and provides nutrition, healthcare and education. […]

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July 22, 2019/by Millie Pinakoulaki
Volunteer Voices Cuba

Returning Volunteers Share Why They Chose Cuba Again

Returning from a service program can make you itch for more meaningful travel. Deciding where to volunteer next can be challenging, however. But maybe you don’t have to make the decision all over again. LeAnn Plinske and Jennifer O’Neill are alumni who chose to return to where they originally served. Here they share their experience […]

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July 9, 2019/by Millie Pinakoulaki
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Nursing Students Take on an Adventure In Service and Learning

The nine senior nursing students from St. John Fisher College arrived in Ipalamwa, Tanzania with a clear assignment: To leverage their clinical capstone project to assess the heath of RCP mothers and children, and support caregivers on home visits. By combining their emergent skills with a desire to serve, they had the opportunity to help […]

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June 28, 2019/by Millie Pinakoulaki
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Volunteer Team Reflects on a Journey of Discovery with the Lakota People

On the plains of South Dakota, a summer Global Volunteers service team worked one-on-one with the Sicangu Rosebud Sioux people, helping to improve the community’s welfare while gaining unique, non-tourist insights on the history, culture, and struggles of the Lakota Nation. Follow their day-by-day journey of discovery here. Welcome to the Reservation! Welcome to the […]

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June 3, 2019/by Millie Pinakoulaki
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The Ripple Effect: Two referrals led her on a Worldwide Journey of Discovery

Barb Holdridge was intrigued when her good friend recommended a new type of travel.  But, she didn’t know she’d also catch the volunteering abroad “bug” so quickly! Another volunteer on a different service program encouraged her to branch out further. Sixteen years and 10 programs afterward, Barb says that international volunteer travel is “the” way […]

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April 1, 2019/by Millie Pinakoulaki
Service-Learning, Volunteer Voices Peru

Retired Long Distance Friends Unite as Volunteers in Peru

Forty years ago, Laura Tomlinson and Kim Berge worked together in Colorado Springs.  They parted ways soon after college to pursue their careers – Kim attended a Physician Assistant program in CT and Laura pursued a graduate degree in Education in CA. They never lived in the same town again. Each got married, raised their own families, established […]

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March 14, 2019/by Millie Pinakoulaki
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