Current News, Field Reports and Volunteer Voices

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volunteer team leader Barbara Morris

Staff Worldwide

Meet Your Team Leader: Barbara Morris

Volunteer Team Leader Barbara Morris has led 11 Global Volunteers teams since 2015. Her first service program as a volunteer was in 2008 in Ecuador. Since then, she's served on seven additional service programs as a team member: in Vietnam,…

Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

Virtual RCP Workshops Conducted in Tanzania During Pandemic

A cornerstone of the Reaching Children's Potential Program (RCP) is the series of workshops with mothers who are RCP members, providing essential information on topics related to child development, health, nutrition, hygiene, and technologies.…

Development Impact, Family Volunteering, Why I Give

Why I Give: Assisting Self-Sufficiency

Global Volunteers relies on a steady stream of volunteers to serve in partner communities each year, ensuring that essential services continue. Volunteers are our essential resource - the human capital that partner communities request and require.…

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Development Impact

Esperança 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…

Development Impact

It Takes a Global Village to Deliver World Health

Health is central to the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Specifically, SDG 3 aims to “Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages," and is underpinned by 13 "targets" covering a wide spectrum of…

Volunteer Voices St Lucia

Couple Pays It Forward Through Annual Service in St. Lucia

Each February for the last three years, Darby Hansen and her husband, Paul Agosta, have volunteered in St. Lucia - where they first visited on vacation. At that time, the island tugged at their heart, and they were gratified to discover how…

Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

Welcoming the February & March 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 seven babies born in February and March 2021.…

Development Impact Tanzania

Tanzanian Medical Student Rises Above Poverty With Volunteers’ Extra Help

In 2013, Lulu Kigola was among the best performers of the National Form Two examinations in Tanzania. In primary and secondary school, she was consistently earning top grades. But as the firstborn of four daughters in a poor farming village,…

International community development

Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

Reaching Children’s Potential in Tanzania: Welcome to Pelagia Kindole

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…

Why I Give: Responding to Families’ Needs Abroad

When Global Volunteers launched an online gift catalog last year, donors welcomed it as a complementary way to support the communities they've served. Read on for two couples' reflections on giving back while their own volunteer travel is…

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Development Impact

Medical Bridges 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…

Development Impact Tanzania

Rainwater Harvesting System Multiplies Family’s Options

Just after the first of the year, Getrude Elly Kikoti and her husband, Mwita Mtengela, learned they and their children, Meckson, Gideon, and Richard, would be the first in the Ukwega Ward of Tanzania to receive a household rainwater harvesting…