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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
International Community Development Profile: Agness Tula 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 […]
“Our Culture is Our Strength,” says St. Lucia Community Partner
Global Volunteers co-founder Michele Gran talked with Global Volunteers’ Community Partner Camillus Laurencin along with Country Manager Chemida Popo-Cox in St. Lucia about the power of community in the face of adversity. Read on for lessons from the resilient people of Anse la Raye during our worldwide coronavirus crisis. First the churches closed; then the […]
International Community Development Profile: Tumsifu Mbata 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 […]
Vietnam is Global Model for COVID-19 Success
While the global media focused on COVID-19 cases worldwide, Vietnam quietly proceeded with their containment campaign and now is cautiously restoring daily life. Despite its dense population and proximity to China, Vietnam has held onto one of the world’s lowest infection rates. How have they succeeded where the richest countries with the best health care […]
Cook Islanders Cautiously Adjust to a “Tourist-less” Economy
The Cook Islands are known for their awe-inspiring natural beauty, exciting land and sea attractions and warm Polynesian culture. But how does the tourism-reliant country cope without tourists? And what has suddenly reduced the country’s foreign aid? Families straddling the poverty line now are re-imagining a post-COVID economy on the remote archipelago. Read on for […]
Reaching Children’s Potential In Tanzania: Welcome to Sophia Lukonde
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, […]
“Global Volunteers Changed My Life,” says Blackfeet Reservation Volunteer
We’re always grateful for volunteers’ emails and letters expressing sincere gratitude for the opportunity to authentically experience their host culture, and to serve those who live there. Some – as Tenly Zinke expresses here – gain life-changing perspectives. A mother of two daughters, Tenly said she learned about Native American tribes in third grade, and […]
The Rosebud Reservation’s Fight Against COVID-19
As it is with American Indian tribes throughout the nation, the Lakota people on the Rosebud Reservation of South Dakota are fighting to prevent a COVID-19 health crisis. While they employed highway checkpoints for a short time to control outside traffic into their communities, they now rely on tribal members’ cooperation with standard prevention practices […]
Reaching Children’s Potential In Tanzania: Welcome to Atanasia Chuma
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, […]
Global Volunteers’ Long-term Partnerships in Peru Address Childhood Poverty
Global Volunteers’ partnership in Peru, which began in 2001, has engaged a variety of community partners with the goal of serving children and families who need it most. In 2018, Global Volunteers accepted a pivotal invitation from our most formative partner – Sagrada Familia – to work broadly in areas of education, health care and […]