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Worldwide Efforts Toward Zero Hunger – An Overview

Imagine what your life would be like if you didn’t know when your next meal will be. And, this would happen every day - day after day and week after week. That's how one in nine of the people in the world live. And, it's the reality for…
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International Community Development Profile: Agness Tula 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…
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Partnership is Fundamental to Development, Says Tanzania Host Partner

In early 1986, Bishop Dr. Owdenberg Mdegella of ELCT invited Global Volunteers to bring volunteers to assist villagers in Pommern, Tanzania - the center of his Church's development efforts. Since his retirement, Bishop Emeritus Mdegella remains…
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“Our Culture is Our Strength,” says St. Lucia Community Partner

Global Volunteers co-founder Michele Gran talked with Global Volunteers’ Community Partner Camillus Laurencin along with Country Manager Chemida Popo-Cox in St. Lucia about the power of community in the face of adversity. Read on for lessons…
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Happy Healthy Birthdays for These RCP Children in July, 2020!

The Reaching Children's Potential (RCP) program of the Ukwega Ward in central Tanzania measures its success by the growth and development of the children in the program. Meet the boys and girls who celebrated their second birthdays in July,…
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International Community Development Profile: Tumsifu Mbata 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…
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Personal and Economic Sacrifices Spare Vietnam From World’s Death Rate

While the global media focused on COVID-19 cases worldwide, Vietnam quietly proceeded with their containment campaign and now is cautiously restoring daily life. Despite its dense population and proximity to China, Vietnam has held onto one…
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Where are the Cook Islands?

Cook Islanders Cautiously Adjust to a “Tourist-less” Economy

The Cook Islands are known for their awe-inspiring natural beauty, exciting land and sea attractions and warm Polynesian culture. But how does the tourism-reliant country cope without tourists? And what has suddenly reduced the country's foreign…
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Reaching Children’s Potential In Tanzania: Welcome to Sophia Lukonde

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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The Rosebud Reservation’s Fight Against COVID-19

As it is with American Indian tribes throughout the nation, the Lakota people on the Rosebud Reservation of South Dakota are fighting to prevent a COVID-19 health crisis. While they employed highway checkpoints for a short time to control outside…
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Reaching Children’s Potential In Tanzania: Welcome to Atanasia Chuma

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 in all…
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Global Volunteers’ Long-term Partnerships in Peru Address Childhood Poverty

Global Volunteers' partnership in Peru, which began in 2001, has engaged a variety of community partners with the goal of serving children and families who need it most. In 2018, Global Volunteers accepted a pivotal invitation from our most…
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