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Welcoming the July 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 six babies born in July 2021. Their moms joined…
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Building Local Capacity in Peru

Global Volunteers’ goal is to support and fortify community leaders’ vision for self-sufficiency – ultimately to enable children and families to reach their full potential. An essential step towards this vision is building local capacity.…
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Celebrate 30 Years of Volunteer Service in Poland With Us

One of Global Volunteers’ oldest and most delightful service programs takes place in Siedlce, eastern Poland. Volunteers have been serving in Siedlce teaching conversational English since 1990. The large number of returning volunteers and…
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International Community Development Profile: Fanista Mgata Family

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…
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Happy Healthy Birthdays For These RCP Children In July 2021!

The Reaching Children’s Potential Program (RCP) of the Ukwega Ward in central Tanzania measures its success by the growth and development of the children in the program. Read about 43 girls and boys who reached their first, second, third,…
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Returning to International Service as a Statement of Courage and Compassion

The Covid-19 pandemic has led to far-reaching consequences for children and their families in the communities we serve. Volunteers are needed now more than ever to help deliver essential services and support our community partners as they get…
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Meet Your Team Leader: Julie Knudsen

Volunteer Team Leader Julie Knudsen began volunteering with Global Volunteers in 2006 and has served as a team member or Volunteer Team Leader on 13 programs: six times in Cuba; twice in Vietnam; and once each in Minnesota, Montana, West Virginia,…
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Building Local Capacity in St. Lucia

Global Volunteers' goal is to support and fortify community leaders' vision for self-sufficiency - ultimately to enable children and families to reach their full potential. Our role in helping build local capacity is explained through interviews…
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Welcoming the June 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 five babies born in June 2021. Their moms joined…
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Reaching Children’s Potential in Tanzania: Welcoming New Moms to the Program in June

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…
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international Volunteer work to improve the quality of life of girls and women in Nepal.

Building Local Capacity in Nepal

A measure of success for Global Volunteers is supporting local efforts so much that volunteers either are no longer needed, or are assigned to ever-expanding community projects. By avoiding creating dependency, we work so that our partners…
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Physical Therapy Students Help Children with Special Needs in Tanzania

Changing the world, one child at a time. Through service-learning with Global Volunteers in Tanzania, Regis University Global Pathways physical therapy students have provided services to children with special needs who wouldn't otherwise have…
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