Our Thanksgiving gift to you: First-time Global Volunteer Courtney Curran wrote she couldn’t let the holiday season pass without acknowledging the transformative power of our Tanzania Service Program experience in her life in July, 2021. She participated on the first volunteer team on the Reaching Children’s Potential Program (RCP) since the onset of the pandemic. […]
From 1993 through 2000, Global Volunteers worked in partnership with Proyecto Azteca, a non-profit self-help home construction company in the US-Texas border town of San Juan. After federal and state funding declined and undercut the organization’s programming, our service program was suspended until we re-established relations in late 2021. Be among the first to serve […]
A central component of Global Volunteers’ Reaching Children’s Potential Program (RCP) is proper handwashing with soap and water. It’s proven that cleaning hands this way reduces diarrhea by half and is than 300 times more effective than a single vaccine. In the Ukwega Ward, Global Volunteers equips families with outdoor handwashing “stations” which dispense clean […]
The faded and peeling murals and empty classrooms at Sagrada Familia bear witness to the punishing lockdown during the pandemic. But the children’s cheery demeanor and spring blooms on trees and stems belie the stress of 19 continuous months of isolation. On the first service program back to the children’s home in Ventanilla, Peru, Global […]
Since 2007, Cora Thompson has served with Global Volunteers annually, first in Peru with her husband Verlon, and then individually in Romania and Ecuador. Drawn to service since her youth, Cora says she “strives to give to others physically, emotionally, and spiritually,” and has done so on14 Global Volunteers programs. Inspired by these experiences, Cora […]
Because email services have taken very strong measures to fight spam, some emails from Global Volunteers might be mistakenly routed to your spam filter, or otherwise sent to subordinate folders (such as “promotions” or “other” in Gmail or Outlook). The result is you may never see our messages to you, and we might conclude that you’re […]
A decade ago, California marketing manager Erin Woody was building her career and working excessive hours each week. She loved her job, but was missing a central element of her life: Community service. Determining that “weekend volunteering” didn’t satisfy, and long-term commitments such as mentoring at-risk teens exceeded her available time, she searched the internet […]
The 3rd annual .ORG Impact Awards (OIAs) named Global Volunteers as a finalist and “remarkable mission-driven organization” for building better communities in Tanzania. All awards, including .ORG of the Year, are hosted by the Public Interest Registry (PIR) and will be publicly announced during a virtual celebration event on November 9, 2021. Healing and Transforming […]
It seems unimaginable that today we observe another UN International Day of Peace during the global pandemic. Yet, we know peace has taken on enhanced meaning as we confront the realities of those who have had little peace amidst the destruction of the ongoing health crisis. As the peace flag at the Cuban Institute for […]
On the first service program back to Tanzania following the pandemic lockdown, the Reaching Children’s Potential Program (RCP) launched a mental wellness program aimed to extend care, education and support through workshops, home visits, group meetings and clinical examinations and assessments. With broad acceptance and endorsement by community and church leaders throughout the Ukwega Ward, […]