Current News, Field Reports and Volunteer Voices

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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…

Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

Happy Healthy Birthdays For These RCP Children In June 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 36 girls and boys who reached their first, second, third,…

iusz Stopa, and Global Volunteers' CEO Bud Philbrook work together to make a brighter future possible for Polish youth.

Conversational English Cuba, Greece, Peru, Poland

The Importance of English for Global Business

Why is it that so many young people around the world want to learn English? It's not only because of the beauty of the language, but also the economy, or rather the business world. English is the language of global business, and youth around…

International community development

Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

International Community Development Profile: Bitiana Kipingi 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…

Volunteers Bryan and Maddy Aungst, and Nelson Goodman providing dental care with local staff in Tanzania.

Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

RCP Program Improves Family Dental Care in Rural Villages

Global Volunteers promotes the well-being of children around the world in many different ways so they can realize their full potential. This fourth post in a series describes how the Reaching Children’s Potential Program (RCP) provides rural…

Development Impact

Service Programs Resume; Volunteers Sought Through 2022

Global Volunteers' leadership has approved a "careful and conscientious" resumption of some service programs in countries that have resumed tourism, and where local pandemic precautions can optimize health and safety. After a very difficult…

Staff Worldwide

Meet Your Team Leader: Joe Testa

Volunteer Team Leader and Portugal Country Manager Joe Testa began volunteering with Global Volunteers in 1991, and has since served as a team member or Volunteer Team Leader on 68 programs. Throughout his thirty years of service until now,…

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Development Impact, News and Updates Peru

Young Voices from Peru: Estefany

This sixth story in a series about recent high school graduates from our partner community, the Sagrada Familia children's home in Peru, is about Estefany Arias Ramírez. As a day student at the campus school, she witnessed first-hand the difference…

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Development Impact

International Committee of the Red Cross and the Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, the United Nations developed 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a “shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future” to be achieve by 2030. The SDGs were preceded by the eight…