Worldwide, mental illness touches the lives of nearly everyone – often through family members, friends, neighbors, co-workers or community institutions. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 13 percent of the world’s population is affected by mental health and substance use disorders. In Tanzania, although very few prevalence studies of mental disorders have been done […]
Ten volunteers launched into action the fourth week of 2022 in south Texas to rejuvenate and expand Global Volunteer’s development partnership in the Rio Grande Valley. Eager to demonstrate genuine compassion and acceptance through their service to families and refugees touched by hardship and poverty, they offered their skills and energy to community partner Proyecto […]
Cuba Program Host Pastor Eduardo González is eager to welcome many new and returning Global Volunteers to Ciego de Ávila, our original partner community in Cuba. “Your fingerprints have marked our hearts and communities, and we welcome you back as soon as it is possible,” he said. Although service programs in Havana resumed early in […]
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 1994 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. Our renewed Texas Program under Proyecto […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sidelined from travel by the 2020-21 pandemic Global Volunteers Alumnus Don Marshall of Sebastopol, CA, isn’t slowing down now that travel has resumed. As he considers his next adventure in service, he recently reminisced about about his rewarding Vietnam service journey, and continues exploring new opportunities to serve the Vietnamese people. Since 2006, Don and […]
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 […]