Distance between people, doesn’t mean you can’t be close to their hearts! Two thousand six hundred eighty two miles is exactly how far I live from Colegio of Santa Elena (‘colegio’ means secondary school for those like me who don’t speak a lot of Spanish). But all those miles do not come close to how […]
Team 227 woke up to a rainy morning on Friday, the final day of service for the California Contingent. Watching our Team Members sit down to enjoy our first bite of breakfast at 7:00 a.m. sharp was a thing of beauty, though young Master Haiden was delayed by the onset of a cold and the […]
It feels like we’ve been in Costa Rica waiting patiently for this day: our day to start serving, to begin connecting, to meet those who we’ve only yet envisioned in our minds. So after our Team #227 had breakfast and a quick team meeting, we headed down the roadside with smiles on our faces and […]
Learn about our partnership with Sagrada Familia and your opportunity to help children in Peru here. Miraflores is a lovely place with green grass, colorful flowers, and fountains gracing the center of many chaotic traffic circles. I barely notice the standard gray sky covering Lima’s limits as we head a little northeast of the butterfly […]
If you are thinking about volunteering in Peru and working with children, here are two testimonies about volunteering at PPA so that you get an idea of what it’s like. By Lexi Strictland Coming into this experience of volunteering at PPA I did not know what to expect. I thought that maybe the kids would not […]
We woke up to a lovely breakfast among all my new friends. We met early with the General Secretary, who was very enthusiastic to explain how we will be helping in Pommern. We introduced each other to him and asked questions. We had a brief introduction on Global Volunteers’ mission. He spoke with us about […]
Journal Entry for July 15, 2014 – Author: Glenda And then there were 6…The six of us gathered for our morning briefing over breakfast. This was a typical Monday morning was clothes day as a few of us gathered laundry to be taken to the cleaners which James kindly offered to drop off for us. […]
Today we started the day off great by practicing our final celebration song on the bus ride to Calderón. At the center, we were greeted with “holas” and chubby faces stuffed with breakfast. A lot of progress was done everywhere around the daycare. In Tía Vanesa’s room Kirsten and Lily had a dance party with […]
It has been said that wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. While listening to people talk about their experiences today, I was reminded of that quote. And, while listening to some of my new friends talk over dinner, one word kept coming to mind…connections. Connections revisited between Katie, Tom, Tía Alexandra, and […]
Thought for the Day: Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. Woodrow Wilson Today we headed to the university for our last day of teaching – always a somewhat bittersweet day. The first hour and a half was spent with our individual classes. Rachel and I were typical in that […]