Global Volunteers
375 East Little Canada Road
St. Paul, MN 55117-1628 USA
(800) 487-1074 | toll-free
(651) 482-0915 | fax
globalvolunteers.org
email@globalvolunteers.org
375 East Little Canada Road
St. Paul, MN 55117-1628 USA
(800) 487-1074 | toll-free
(651) 482-0915 | fax
globalvolunteers.org
email@globalvolunteers.org
Why Greece? Sam of Course!
Global Volunteers’ Country Managers and Team Leaders are the heart and soul of this organization. They are volunteers’ resource and guide while serving in the community. They are our community partners’ connection to valuable volunteer resources. They are the glue that hold Global Volunteers’ service programs together. One of the very best ways to get […]
“Bridge Day” Engages Volunteers in West Virginia
Along with routine labor and education projects in our host community, West Virginia volunteers occasionally have the opportunity to contribute to local celebrations and special events. For the first time that Global Volunteers’ partner, SALS, participated in Bridge Day – West Virginia’s largest single-day festival, and one of the largest extreme sports events in the […]
2019 Retrospective: Projects Worldwide Advance Support for Children and Families
Throughout 2019, volunteers provided greatly needed services to families in all corners of the globe, aided by Global Volunteers donors, institutional collaborators and corporate supporters. Following are highlights from a landmark year of volunteer-assisted development. Labor Projects in South America In March, an exclusive team of Medtronic employees committed a week to upgrading FUNDAC’s second […]
25TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS IN GREECE!
Summer 2020 marks 25 years of service in Greece, with a special anniversary team in Crete (July 18- August 1) to commemorate this milestone! Register now to enjoy meaningful work with students at a summer English program, and be a part of special cultural events for an authentic and stimulating celebration, Greek-style. OPA!!! Global Volunteers’ […]
St. Lucia EarthBoxes Help Volunteers Work Toward Community Goals
Global Volunteer Linda Roberts has served six different partner communities since 2016, and has no plans to slow down. The Florida retiree, who says “volunteering adds purpose to her life,” last served in Anse la Raye, St. Lucia, helping the community plant 94 EarthBoxes in two weeks! She shares her journal entry describing how their […]
Inspiring Children To Dream On New Possibilities
Seven–time Global Volunteer Rene Moquin had a Global Volunteers “first” recently. He joined a team serving the students at Nguyen Binh Khiem School (NBK) in Hanoi, Vietnam. The Colorado retiree employed his acting and musical skills – challenging them to “dream of new possibilities.” In these journal entries, Rene reflects on his singular experience and […]
THE CHILDREN WON MY HEART- IN KATHMANDU NEPAL!
Two-time Global Volunteer Pastor Debbie Michaels says she journeyed to Nepal “to make the world a better place.” She has some experience with that. With her focus on retreat ministry occupationally, her “com-passion” was evident as a Tanzania volunteer in 2016, and again recently in Kathmandu. Always a seeker, Debbie admits she was uncertain what […]
Teen Volunteer Grateful for Tanzania Service Learning Experience
Nathalie Oestmann and her sixteen-year-old daughter, Anna, decided to volunteer in Tanzania to learn about a new culture and work on meaningful service projects. Nathalie and Anna traveled from London to Ipalamwa, Tanzania in July of 2019. Nathalie said, “I came to Global Volunteers to do humanitarian work in a country different from those I […]
Women’s School Opens Up Possibilities for Marginalized Adult Students in Nepal
Although the caste system is officially banned in Nepal, its legacy and lingering prejudices have greatly damaged women of lower status over decades. The cumulative effects are daunting. Facing institutionalized inequalities that are nearly possible to overcome, women of oppressed ethnic groups often have lived outside village boundaries, and are prevented from walking through the […]
Mother-Daughter Pairs Serve Together in Peru and Broaden Their Horizons
Longtime friends Urvi Doshi and Suma Putcha have always been involved as volunteers within their local community in Allen, Texas. Then they decided they wanted to broaden their own and their teenage daughters’ horizons by volunteering internationally. Urvi and Maya (age 17) and Suma and Avani (age 18) spent a week serving with Global Volunteers […]