Current News, Field Reports and Volunteer Voices

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International community development

Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

Reaching Children’s Potential in Tanzania: Welcome to Lina Mhando

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…

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Development Impact

International Confederation of Midwives and the Sustainable Development Goals

Achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment is integral to each of the 17 SDGs. Only by ensuring the rights and health of women and girls across all the goals will the world achieve justice and inclusion, economies that work for all,…

Everyone in the community participated oxygen-plant

Partners' Stories Peru

Peru Community Partner Vaults Hurdles to Build Life-Giving Plant

With characteristic single-minded determination, Global Volunteers' Country Host Partner Miguel Rodríguez led staff and supporters of Sagrada Familia on a campaign of mercy in Lima, Peru. In four months, they've overcome ingrained obstacles…

International community development

Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

International Community Development Profile: Tenida Duma 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…

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Development Impact

Operation Bootstrap Africa and the Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, the United Nations adopted 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…

reaching children's potential staff

Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

Dedicated RCP Center Staff Lead Community Change by Example

The Reaching Children's Potential Program (RCP) in Tanzania is staffed by many talented, dedicated individuals who lead community change through new technologies and lifestyle transformations. They also are essential to provide clean, comfortable,…

International community development

Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

International Community Development Profile: Jesneda Mtenda Family in Tanzania

In this series, families in the Reaching Children’s Potential Program (RCP) in Tanzania explain how their participation improves their lives. Global Volunteers’ RCP Program engages short-term volunteers to help parents deliver essential…

Development Impact Nepal, Peru

Cognitive Ability is Enhanced in Youth-Centered Volunteer Projects

Global Volunteers promotes children's well-being around the world in many different ways so they can realize their full potential. This third post in a series about child development projects examines how brain development enhances cognitive…

Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

Happy Healthy Birthdays for These RCP Children in February 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 25 girls and boys who reached their first, second, third, and…

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Development Impact

Food for the Hungry 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…

International community development

Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

International Community Development Profile: Veronika Kikoti 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…

octogenarian couple eager to return to service

Volunteer Voices

Octogenarian Couple Shares Love of Service

Carole and Jay Kennerly have spent decades sharing experiences together - and among the highlights of their years as a married couple are their four service programs with Global Volunteers. From Greece to Cuba and Vietnam to the Cook Islands,…