Current News, Field Reports and Volunteer Voices

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Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

Expecting Moms Get the Care They Need in Tanzanian Village Program

It is said in Tanzania that "A mother is a great army." We interpret that to refer to the strength and resolve needed to raise children in challenging circumstances - not unlike raising an army in any developing country. Our experience with…

Development Impact

Global Volunteers and the Sustainable Development Goals

Why I Give: Finding a New Home in Service

Frances (Fran) Johansen found Global Volunteers at a time in her life when she says she was dealing with "angst." Her husband had recently passed away, she had retired and was thinking about what to do with the rest of her life. Fran describes…

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Volunteer Voices Peru

Volunteer Learns Invaluable Lessons of Gratitude from Children in Peru

What is true happiness? Joy? Thankfulness? Aluma Linda Thill served at Sagrada Familia children's home for orphaned, abandoned, and neglected children in Peru over Christmas for her first international volunteering experience. As a retired…

Group Volunteering, Service-Learning Tanzania

Global Volunteers Promises Service Adventure With Group Volunteering in Tanzania

Along the dusty, bumpy East African roads outside Iringa in the central highlands of Tanzania are traditional villages where life is lived in startling simplicity. Arriving in Ipalamwa in the Ukwega Ward, two teams of physical therapy students…

Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

Reaching Children’s Potential in Tanzania: Welcoming New Moms to the Program in March and April

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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Staff Worldwide

Meet Your Team Leader: Cindy Murray

Volunteer Team Leader Cindy Murray has served on a total of 22 service programs with Global Volunteers either as a team member or as a Volunteer Team Leader. Her first service program as a volunteer was in 1997 in Mississippi. Since then, she’s…

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Development Impact

Feed the Children 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 Millennium…

Volunteer helps Vietnamese blind students learn English to become self-sufficient

Development Impact Nepal, Vietnam

Self-sufficiency is Enhanced Through Genuine Community Development Projects

Working toward self-sufficiency is related to many of the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals, and is a baseline criterion of Global Volunteers' service programs. This post illuminates how volunteers assist two of our community partners in Asia…

Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

Happy Healthy Birthdays For These RCP Children In April 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 21 girls and boys who reached their first, second, third,…

News and Updates Cuba

Cuban Community Partner Upholds Inclusion, Integrity, and Integrality

Global Volunteers' partnership with the Cuban Council of Churches (CIC) was cultivated in 2007, before we were formally able to establish a service program on the island. Then, in 2012, we obtained a license to engage American volunteers in…

Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

International Community Development Profile: Aglina Myumbo 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…