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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
Celebrating International Youth Day During a Global Pandemic
With youth aged 24 years and under composing around 40% of the total global population, skills development for children worldwide is crucial. That’s why Global Volunteers programs focus on helping children reach their full potential – from providing prenatal care so mothers can deliver healthy babies, and offering early childhood interventions to teaching conversational English […]
Breastfeeding Workshop a Tenet of RCP Mothers Education
Decades of evidence indicates that there is nothing better for a mother and her baby’s well-being than exclusive breastfeeding. But for several reasons, many parents make other choices, especially in struggling communities around the world. Global Volunteers promotes breastfeeding through the Reaching Children’s Potential (RCP) Program in the Ukwega Ward of Tanzania as a way […]
International Community Development Profile: Tumpokee Kikoti 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 […]
Happy Healthy Birthdays for RCP Children in July, 2020!
The Reaching Children’s Potential (RCP) program of the Ukwega Ward in central Tanzania measures its success by the growth and development of the children in the program. Meet the boys and girls who celebrated their second birthdays in July, 2020 in good health and on target to reach all their development milestones. We celebrate them […]
Work With us to Help Achieve ZERO HUNGER in Tanzania
Global Volunteers is committed to helping achieve zero hunger, improved health, and enhanced cognition in the Ukewga Ward of Tanzania so village children can reach their full potential. In 2017, at the invitation of and in cooperation with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania, we established the Reaching Children’s Potential (RCP) Program – a child-focused, […]
Worldwide Efforts Toward Zero Hunger – An Overview
Imagine what your life would be like if you didn’t know when your next meal will be. And, this would happen every day – day after day and week after week. That’s how one in nine of the people in the world live. And, it’s the reality for many people in our partner communities. Global […]
Reaching Children’s Potential In Tanzania: Welcome to Elestuta Mfikwa
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 […]
Long-Standing Global Volunteers Lean on Lessons from Communities Abroad
Tim Cunniff and Keith Kresge are Global Volunteers “veterans.” Between them, they’ve served on 44 programs in 18 different countries – from Tanzania to the Cook Islands. Despite the obvious contrasts between these societies, they say one truth is common to all: People are more alike than different on a basic-needs level. But, how people […]
International Community Development Profile: Sharon Kaywanga 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 […]
Partners Report School Opening Plans in a Post-COVID-19 World
Few global events ever impact every country simultaneously as COVID-19 has. Besides its devastating consequences for the health and finances of millions of people around the world, the pandemic also disrupted their education. How have schools in our partner communities been affected? How have they’ve been able to cope with the challenges, and what does […]