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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Romania Global Volunteer

Volunteer Voices St Lucia

Our brothers’ keeper

Good morning Saint Lucia. Our third day on the island and Saint Lucia's beauty is only surpassed by the beauty and resilience of her people. Today we did assessments on 3, 4 , 5 and 6th graders. The children all loved mathematics and were well…

Romania Global Volunteer

Cultures and Traditions China

The Chinese Celebrate the Duanwu Festival

It’s the Duanwu or Dragon Boat Festival in China on June 20 this year. The festival is celebrated on the 5thday of the 5th Chinese lunar month and has a history of over 200 years. The festival commemorates the life and death of the…

Romania Global Volunteer

Conversational English, Volunteer Voices

Saying Goodbye to this Enchanting Land

Team Journal Entry for Friday, June 19 For our last day at Colegio, we went back to Jorge’s class of ninth graders, and then took off on the nature trail that the students and other Global Volunteer teams had helped build on the…

Falling in love with Tanzania

Service-Learning, Volunteer Voices Tanzania

Student Volunteer “Falls in Love” with Tanzania

Reflections by Morgan, Tanzania Global Volunteer and Endicott College Student I absolutely fell in love with Tanzania. From the moment I met the Global Volunteers staff until the moment I was back in the airport at Dar es Salaam, I felt so…

Romania Global Volunteer

Volunteer Voices

First Volunteer Day FLEW BY!

Journal entry by: Jennifer Maddox Monday, June 15th, 2015: First day at the hospital FLEW BY! The team: Libby and I are returning to Barlad for the second time; the first being winter of 2012. This is Margaret's first time in Romania…

Alto Progreso Peru

Development Impact Peru

Magnify Your Volunteer Efforts in Alto Progreso, Peru

On the barren hillsides of Alto Progres, Peru, you can magnify your volunteer efforts by assisting families in need! Within the district of Pamplona - one of 150 destitute communities districts of Lima - Alto Progreso's 350 families survive…

Romania Global Volunteer

Reaching Children's Potential Cuba

First Volunteers Give Freely, Are Thanked Warmly

Report from Cuba - By Pam Cromer, Team Leader Global Volunteers' historic first volunteer team is doing important work - not only meeting the community's labor requests, but building long-lasting relationships. This is the foundation…

Romania Global Volunteer

Volunteer Voices

Here’s Why You Should Volunteer in Romania

Since 1999, over 1, 850 individuals have served in Romania with Global Volunteers - providing more than 150, 000 service hours. And each year, people continue to graciously spend their yearly vacation time sharing love and offering care to…

Romania Global Volunteer

Free Time Options, Volunteer Voices Cuba

“Cuba impacted me so much that I plan to return again in 2016!”

Jabeh Peabody previously served on a Global Volunteers program in Montana with her colleagues from inVentiv Health Clinical, so she already had experience working hand and hand with local people in one of our host communities before arriving…

Romania Global Volunteer

Volunteer Voices St Lucia

Gallery of Labor Projects in Anse la Raye

Romania Global Volunteer

Conversational English, Volunteer Voices Cuba

“We Knocked it out of the Park”

Last views of Ciego de Avila - very sad to be leaving. My pal, Ramon: a short build of a man always smiling very willing to teach – quite skilled - yet so gentle, willing to share his lunch - a fried fish sandwich with the tail sticking…

Romania Global Volunteer

Volunteer Voices Cuba

Volunteer Couple in Cuba Experiences “Heart-to-Heart Service”

The first Global Volunteers team to Cuba was Marietta Quinby's fourth program overall and Randy Quinby's third program overall. You could definitely consider them a dynamite volunteer couple. They both agree that being part of America's first…