Current News, Field Reports and Volunteer Voices

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Leaving a community feeling prouder

Hello again! After an awesome weekend exploring areas outside of Monteverde, today we finally made our return to Colegio. Matt, Ellie, and I began our day with a brisk three-hour period of shoveling dirt out of old garden plots, which…

Family Volunteering, Volunteer Voices Tanzania

A Family’s Service Adventure in Tanzania

The Ford Family of Great Falls, Montana (all nine of them) served together in Pommern in June 2013. This is their journal of their Adventure in Service. 8/6/13 - Lovely seaside dinner with Edward. The food is delicious and the…

Volunteer Voices

You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree…

Today we continued working in the gym to get ready for the science fair. Our preparations today included moving desks and chairs from the classrooms down to the gym, building a stage, and making floral arrangements. I was really surprised…

Volunteer Voices St Lucia

Tomorrow we begin anew

Monday morning~ After breakfast and morning meeting – we departed for our assignments. Margaret & I were off to a meeting at Marigot Secondary School with Principal DuJohn, Vernett James, the youth officer from the Dept. of Ministry,…

Reaching Children's Potential, Volunteer Voices

First full day in Monteverde!

¡Buenas noches! Today was our first full day in Monteverde, and, as expected, it has been an adventure. I mean, when you wake up at six in the morning and the sun is out in full force, you know the day is at least going to be interesting. Today…

Volunteer Voices

First full day in Costa Rica!

Today we woke up early and left the hostel in Alajuela. We hopped into a van to ride to our destination, Monteverde. Along the way, we stopped and got a very delicious breakfast. The ride up the mountain was unreal. I’ve never seen mountains…

News and Updates, Reaching Children's Potential St Lucia

Volunteers: The Essential Element for Providing Essential Services in Anse la Raye

Continuing our work on community projects to help deliver the 12 Essential Services required for children to reach their full potential is the heart of The St. Lucia Demonstration Project. Our actions together will help minimize factors…

Volunteer Voices St Lucia

Learing about Earthboxes

Breakfast as usual. Carita & Emily worked at Kids Step preschool and Katie showed up in the afternoon to help after finishing with her RCP visits. Tracey had a good day with 4 family visits with Daniella to Roving Caregiver mothers…

News and Updates, Volunteer Voices St Lucia

Telling the St. Lucia Project Story

Dawn guides cameraman Dave as Francois Henry selects seedlings at the nursery. It's been very interesting watching reporter Jason Davis and photographer Dave Peterson work - interviewing volunteers and capturing the various…

Volunteer Voices St Lucia

All Working Hard

Today we all met for breakfast at Ben’s Hideaway, and gathered some more resources from the resource room before we were on our way. Margaret and Dawn went back to the health clinic to look over birth records and were pleased…

Volunteer Voices China

Word Games

Marcia did the usual word frame introduction. I then paired the students and had them read to each other about the animal. The teacher and I walked around the room reading with the students pronouncing and defining unfamiliar words. There…

Volunteer Voices

Learning about Romanian culture

Despite being tired from the weekend trip, September, Laura, and Lori were up a bit early and took a walk to the outdoor market. They had a fine time admiring all the vegetables for sale, and Laura and Lori each bought a jar of honey. Back…