Current News, Field Reports and Volunteer Voices

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Wrapping Up a Memorable Volunteer Week in Cuba

The evening classes continue to be attended enthusiastically by a sizeable student body. Of particular note was a fourteen-year-old girl who received some one-on-one tutoring. She already had a rather good grasp of English sentence structure…

Volunteer Projects in Ciego de Avila

Today our team split into 3 groups to support the community in different ways in the morning. Two volunteers worked with Alejandro at the church to sand rusted window grates. Using only single pieces of sandpaper, they were able to remove…

Volunteer Voices Cuba

First Day With Our Students – Cuba Volunteering

On our first day of teaching, our team quickly spread into different rooms that varied by English proficiency, and we all got to work! I was in the front room with Joanne and the beginners. First I must applaud Joanne for her incredible translating…

Volunteer Voices Cuba

Opening To New Experiences – Volunteering In Cuba

My experience of my first day is Cuba is what I will be sharing… my thoughts, feelings, judgments. I KNOW that I can easily focus on the details (Varying room temperature, food surprises, loud noises at 3 am, lukewarm coffee, unrelenting…

Family Volunteering, Volunteer Voices Tanzania

Family Volunteering in Tanzania

Carol Ann signed up for the Tanzania Volunteer Program with her husband, Ray, and their two teenage daughters, Mary Kathryn and Emma (19 and 17 years old). Read as Carol Ann beautifully reflects on her meaningful experience with…

Volunteer Voices Poland

Reymontowka Will Linger in Our Hearts

Volunteer Esther talks about her experience teaching English in Reymontowka, Poland, and concludes: "Reymontowka Will Linger in Our Hearts" The final day of a Global Volunteers' service program is always bittersweet. While looking forward…

Volunteer Voices Cook Islands

“I was no longer a tourist. I was part of the community.”

Recent Global Volunteer Sharolyn Fredrickson returned from her adventure in service with an enthusiastic outlook on international volunteer work after sharing her professional skills in Rarotonga, our host community in the Cook Islands. Sharolyn…

Cultures and Traditions Peru

“I raise pigs so my son will have a better future.”

It is one thing to visit a touristic site and take pictures; it is a whole different thing to be invited by a local person to her home and into her life, and to have a chance to help women support their family. Today I took two of my volunteers…

Volunteer Voices Montana

Malaysian Volunteer Shares Her Heart in Montana

Two seemingly different worlds united on the Blackfeet Reservation this summer. Suh Ning Yeoh journied from Malaysia to explore and lend a hand to the people in our host communities of Browning and Heart Butte. How beautiful to hear that…

Volunteer Voices Peru

I Am Strong!

During this past month, we gave way to our first motivational workshop titled “I am strong!” (or as our Spanish version reads: “Soy fuerte!”). This workshop was specially catered to one of our most vulnerable populations inside the…

Volunteer Voices Cuba

“Cuba has not seen the last of me… I shall return!”

"I am humbled by these all too brief, two weeks in Cuba, " said Seija Webb - long-time Global Volunteer. "There may be economic hardships here, but there is also much generosity, love, kindness, goodness, and oh yes, unbridled happiness!" Significantly…

Volunteer Voices Cook Islands

Kia Orana

Kia Orana (click on this link to see how to say "hello" in Cook Islands Maori!) As we count down to the 4th of August, our countries 50th birthday of being independence, the island is full of people - some being members of Team…

Current News, Field Reports and Volunteer Voices

Wrapping Up a Memorable Volunteer Week in Cuba

Volunteer Projects in Ciego de Avila

First Day With Our Students – Cuba Volunteering

Opening To New Experiences – Volunteering In Cuba

Family Volunteering in Tanzania

Reymontowka Will Linger in Our Hearts

“I was no longer a tourist. I was part of the community.”

“I raise pigs so my son will have a better future.”

Malaysian Volunteer Shares Her Heart in Montana

I Am Strong!

“Cuba has not seen the last of me… I shall return!”

Kia Orana

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