Current News, Field Reports and Volunteer Voices

Several times each week, we post stories about work we do in our host communities – through the voices of our partners, volunteers, and those we serve.  Subscribe using the form below to receive updates in your inbox when they’re published.  If you’re looking for deeper insight into service in a specific country, on a particular type of project, how you can share your unique skills or volunteering as a family or a group, you can find a wealth of information here.  Use the categories next to the posts here or on any page (below right column) to explore more stories that suit your interests.

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Volunteering in your Golden Years

Volunteer Abroad Programs for Seniors: Making “Golden Years” Golden

Volunteering after retirement from daily work might just make your Golden Years, well, golden.  In this interview, Judy, a Global Volunteer since 2005, explains how she's crafted her "life after paid work" to explore and give back to the…
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Using professional skills in Poland
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Using Professional Skills in Poland

Connie has served a total of 20 times with Global Volunteers, ten of those in Poland. Here is why, and how she is using professional skills in Poland.  Lifetime learning Being curious as a child and curious as an adult, as well as wanting…
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How to help orphans

How to Help Orphans

Evan loves volunteering with Global Volunteers: she has done it 20 times. Twelve of those service programs were in Romania, where she has dedicated most of her time to helping children at an orphanage. Evan just finished a service program at PPA,…
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Fundraising to Volunteer Abroad

6 Creative Tips for Fundraising to Volunteer Abroad

Many of our volunteers have raised enough money to cover their entire volunteer program fee, and now we want to encourage you in your efforts towards fundraising to volunteer abroad. This post covers the basics of the great fundraising tool…
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Teach conversational English in Peru

Teaching Conversational English in Peru

Although Cora served on 10 previous volunteer programs with Global Volunteers, she proclaims her assignment teaching conversational English in Peru was her most rewarding volunteer experience to date! Never having taught conversational…
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Teach conversational English

Why Teach Conversational English

Don has served in 10 different countries with Global Volunteers, and has always chosen to teach conversational English. While doing so at a university in Peru, he talks about his experience and tells us why you should teach conversational…
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Helping with labor projects

Helping with Labor Projects

Yvonne has served 10 times with Global Volunteers and is currently serving in Peru. As a retired nurse, one might think that she is the one in charge of looking after people in every community she serves at. But that is not the case. She works…
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girls' education is critical
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“We Will Rise” Documentary Spotlights Importance of Girls’ Education

First Lady Michelle Obama's mission is to help educate girls around the world, and is the expressed theme of CNN's new original film:  "We Will Rise." This documentary is a follow up to CNN Films' 2013 "Girl Rising" which…
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Why Peruvian Food is so Good
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Why Peruvian Food is so Good

Peru Country Manager Daniel Salazar talks about why Peruvian food is so good. Peru has amazing food, period. Everyone in Peru knows this, and many people outside come to Peru just for the food. You may think this is subjective, but it's not:…
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International Day of the Girl
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October 11: International Day of the Girl

In 2011, the United Nations declared October 11th as the International Day of the Girl Child. Its mission is "to help galvanize worldwide enthusiasm for goals to better girls' lives, providing an opportunity for them to show leadership and…
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Why volunteer in Greece
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Why I Love to Volunteer in Greece

Lynn has volunteered in Greece three times in the last four years. Having fallen in love with the country,  Lynn tells us why you should volunteer in Greece as well.  Why Volunteer in Greece,  as Lynn tells it: Greece is a welcoming, warm…
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Volunteering in Crete

Summing up Why I’m Volunteering in Crete Again

By Lynn Lotkowictz, 3-time Greece Global Volunteer. Volunteering in Crete Three times in Fours Years So I'm volunteering in Crete this week for my third Global Volunteers trip in four years. Same program, same location. Why? The country,…
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