The Reaching Children’s Potential Program (RCP) of the Ukwega Ward in central Tanzania measures its success by the growth and development of the children in the program. Read about 36 girls and boys who reached their first, second, third, and fourth birthdays in good health and on target to reach all their development milestones in […]
Why is it that so many young people around the world want to learn English? It’s not only because of the beauty of the language, but also the economy, or rather the business world. English is the language of global business, and youth around the world understand that to be able to participate and benefit […]
In this series, families in the Reaching Children’s Potential (RCP) Demonstration Program in Tanzania explain how their participation improves their lives. Global Volunteers’ RCP Program engages short-term volunteers to help parents deliver essential services improving health, eradicating hunger, and enhancing cognition – with the goal of eliminating child stunting in the Ukwega Ward and throughout […]
Global Volunteers promotes the well-being of children around the world in many different ways so they can realize their full potential. This fourth post in a series describes how the Reaching Children’s Potential Program (RCP) provides rural Tanzanian parents and their children needed dental information and care to improve their health. The RCP Program in […]
Volunteer Team Leader and Portugal Country Manager Joe Testa began volunteering with Global Volunteers in 1991, and has since served as a team member or Volunteer Team Leader on 68 programs. Throughout his thirty years of service until now, he has served on the following service programs: Portugal 18, Italy 6, Cuba 4, Costa Rica […]
This sixth story in a series about recent high school graduates from our partner community, the Sagrada Familia children’s home in Peru, is about Estefany Arias Ramírez. As a day student at the campus school, she witnessed first-hand the difference between her home environment and the supportive environment in the community. Six years ago, she […]
What’s more fun than BABIES? In this series, we focus on the newest members of the Reaching Children’s Potential (RCP) Demonstration Program in Tanzania — newborns. In this post, we welcome twelve babies born in May 2021. Their moms joined the program to provide them a healthy start at life, and the nutrition and care […]
In addition to individual volunteer programs, Global Volunteers provides meaningful opportunities for groups to contribute towards international long-term development projects. Over the years, we have mobilized hundreds of volunteers on organized programs for groups, small or large, intact or as part of individual teams. Currently, we have programs in 12 countries across five continents: Africa, Asia, Europe, […]
Every month, Global Volunteers’ caregivers in the Ukwega Ward of Tanzania meet with families who wish to participate in the Reaching Children’s Potential (RCP) Demonstration Program. The goal of RCP is to eliminate childhood stunting in all five of the villages served: Ipalamwa, Makalanga, Lulindi, Ukwega, and Makungu. Specifically, families obtain the nutrition, health care, knowledge, technology, […]
Unlike new diseases such as COVID-19, intestinal infections caused by parasitic worms have a known and readily available cure. Still, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), intestinal worms affect over 1.5 billion of the world’s poorest and most marginalized people. How is this possible? Read on about Global Volunteers’ effort to prevent infections and […]