Current News, Field Reports and Volunteer Voices

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Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

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,…

Volunteer Voices Poland

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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Staff Worldwide

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,…

volunteer in St. Lucia

Development Impact St Lucia

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…

Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

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…

Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

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…

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

Development Impact 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…

Development Impact, Group Volunteering Tanzania

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…

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Development Impact

Rise Against Hunger and the Sustainable Development Goals

We continue our series on how companion NGOs address the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with an interview with our partner, Rise Against Hunger's Chief Executive Officer Barry Mattson and Chief Programs Officer Edna Ogwangi.…

Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

Tanzania Volunteers Target Nutrition, Health, and Education on Demonstration Program

The first teams of Global Volunteers back to Tanzania are engaged in a formative, newly funded effort to expand crucial technologies throughout the villages. With the aid of short-term volunteers, a grant from the Allen Foundation will make…

Staff Worldwide

Meet Your Team Leader: Karen Wark

Volunteer Team Leader Karen Wark began volunteering with Global Volunteers in 2016 and has since served as a team member or Volunteer Team Leader on 25 programs: nine times in Montana, seven in West Virginia, four in Cuba, twice in Vietnam,…

Volunteer Voices

Inveterate Volunteer’s Service Program “Soul Souvenirs” Documented in Memoir

Eight-time Global Volunteer Judith Love Schwab (pictured in 2012 in Cuba, fourth from left) says her first trip away from her Pennsylvania hometown at age 7 taught her that education isn't limited to books. Experiencing life from different…