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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
Reaching Children’s Potential in Tanzania: Welcome to Jamila Makilika
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, […]
Mercy Corps and the Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, the United Nations developed 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a “shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future” to be achieve by 2030. The SDGs were preceded by the eight Millennium Development Goals, which directed the world’s governments and development institutions toward equality in […]
Welcoming the December RCP Newborns in Tanzania
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 seven babies born in December 2020. Their moms joined the program to provide them a healthy start at life, and the nutrition and care […]
Alumna Is Eager to Re-Connect Through Service to the World
Four-time volunteer Gail Ferguson has volunteered each year on a service program since 2017 — first in Cuba, then in St. Lucia, Peru, and the Cook Islands. She writes about uncovering what’s important about meeting different people around the world, and why she hopes to connect through service again in 2021. by Gail Ferguson I […]
Tanzania Community Health Initiatives led by Staff RCP Caregivers
The seven caregivers for the Reaching Children’s Potential Program (RCP) are essential to families adopting new practices in the areas of health, nutrition, hygiene, and education. They each work one-on-one with parents on Tanzania community health initiatives, with an emphasis on sustained behavior change. In this team interview, the caregivers describe their backgrounds, daily work, […]
International Community Development Profile: Rachel Kigala Family in Tanzania
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 […]
Alumnus Recalls Peru Daily Volunteering Schedule as “An Unforgettable Adventure”
Peru Volunteer Mark Bierbaum says each day working with the children of Sagrada Familia is “building on community goals and being part of something larger.” Read on for his description of a typical day’s volunteering schedule in Peru. By Mark Bierbaum After our volunteer service in Peru, I would often get the question, “what was […]
Harvesting Rainwater in Tanzania
According to the World Health Organization, most of us, about 57 percent of the world’s population, simply turn a tap to get clean running water in our homes. It’s a convenience we repeatedly take for granted. But hundreds of millions of others don’t have access to running water. They walk great distances to fetch water […]
School Environments Improve With the Service and Resources of Volunteers
According to UNESCO, half of Latin American fifteen-year-olds can’t achieve minimum reading proficiency. That is, they’re able to read, but fail to understand what they read. This is one of many sad outcomes of inadequate infrastructure, lack of school supplies, untrained teachers, unsanitary facilities among other deficiencies in school environments in struggling communities. We asked […]
Reaching Children’s Potential in Tanzania: Welcome to Fathanida Kimbavala
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, […]