Current News, Field Reports and Volunteer Voices

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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,…

Why I Give: Volunteers Paying it Forward

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

Volunteers conduct an interactive workshop in Tanzania

Development Impact Peru, Tanzania

Health and Hygiene Workshops are Conducted in Peru and Tanzania

Washing hands with soap and water and other simple hygiene practices are critical interventions for preventing disease spread. However, in some Global Volunteers’ partner communities, these habits lag due to a lack of resources and education.…

International community development

Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

International Community Development Profile: Roziana Kigala 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…

Service-Learning, Why I Give Tanzania

Why I Give: Student Alumnus Sustains Tanzania Dental Support From Home

A mention of Global Volunteers on our partner's website moved Maddy Aungst, an aspiring dental student, and her dentist father to help meet the needs of families and children in the Reaching Children's Potential (RCP) Demonstration Project…

Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

Reaching Children’s Potential in Tanzania: Welcome to Eva Ngusi

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…

Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

Welcoming the January 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 January 2021. Their moms…

Boy works on homework in rural Tanzania.

Development Impact

Education: “A Human Right and a Public Good”

In 2018, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 24 January as International Day of Education, “recognizing that education plays a key role in building sustainable and resilient societies and contributes to the achievement of…