Current News, Field Reports and Volunteer Voices

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Falling in love with Tanzania

Volunteer Voices

Beautifully and Wonderfully Different

Team Journal Entry for Friday, July 10 Today was so bittersweet. We concluded our service at daycare center one today and those kids and tías have made such an impact on me. The love and fun and humor and respect and value shared within…

Falling in love with Tanzania

Volunteer Voices Greece

The Greek Struggle!

Author: Sam Pinakoulaki, Greece Country Manager As I sat out in the playground for recess watching the children laughing and playing, tears filled my eyes…70 innocent souls that spend 4 hours a day with our Volunteers learning English…

Falling in love with Tanzania

Reaching Children's Potential Cuba

Experience the Cuba Service Program Virtually

If you're interested in visiting a unique country with a charming culture, an extraordinary history, and welcoming people, then Cuba is for you. Our Cuba service program combines the best of volunteerism and people-to-people exchanges. Hear…

Falling in love with Tanzania

Volunteer Voices Poland

First Day of Teaching In the Midst of the Tatra Mountains

The day opened with wisps of mist wrapping the mountains. It was another beautiful day In Zakopane. Even without sunshine, the view from our balcony is always lovely and green. It promised to be a bit chilly and a bit wet and the promise…

Cultures and Traditions, News and Updates Cook Islands

“But do we make a difference?” You sure do!

We are often asked by volunteers whether their support of literacy with children really makes a difference. We can tell you emphatically - YOU DO make a difference in the Cook Islands! The Cook Islands culture is predominantly an oral culture…

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Reaching Children's Potential Peru

“Look mom! That’s my hand!”

It has been a most satisfying progression. First, we were asked by the community of Alto Progreso to help build a wall next to the community Pre-K and soup kitchen (which serves 120 children). This wall was needed to protect the children…

Greece Global Volunteer

Volunteer Voices Greece

Advice from Lesley, a Greece Global Volunteer

Greece Global Volunteer, Lesley Rainey, shared her heart on her first service program in Greece back in 2013. Since then, she's loyally supported the people she met in Greece - through not only returning to serve, but also through spreading…

Falling in love with Tanzania

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…

Falling in love with Tanzania

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…

Falling in love with Tanzania

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…

Falling in love with Tanzania

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…