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Mother and children participate on the RCP program in Ipalamwa, Tanzania

Grandmother and Grandson Expand Compassion Together Through Volunteerism

One of the greatest benefits of serving others is the perspective you obtain about your own place in the world.  More and more, grandparents are enabling their grandchildren to travel with them to serve in developing communities to understand…
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serving others Blackfeet Reservation

Meeting Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

Friday was the last day for 5 of our group. Kristie's week at the library concluded with gifts, hugs, tea, cake, photos and a request to come back. Peter and Trudy observed athletics day and a show about whales put on by the Juniors which…
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serving others Blackfeet Reservation

Welcome to the Cook Islands!

Carol, Fran, Joyce, Trudy, Peter, Kristie, Yuri and Barbara – Rarotonga here we come! 6:30am we arrived after a 10 hour flight from LAX. After squeezing into the van with James and Debi and 10, 000 pounds of luggage (which helped…
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July 10th- “You want how many flowers made?”

Morning Message by Robin: “The days pass by slowly, but the years pass by fast.” The hours of a day may pass by slowly, always wishing to be somewhere else, worry about what still remains to be done.  Suddenly, one morning you…
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serving others Blackfeet Reservation

First Day of Camp

Thought for the day: Be faithful in small things, because it is in THEM that your strength lies. -Attributed to Mother Teresa and offered by Beverly A crowing rooster woke us up at dawn today. He heralded a beautiful morning. Hopefully…
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Blackfeet reservation volunteers learn about plants

Blackfeet Reservation Volunteer Learns about Natural Remedies in Time for Healing

  by Blackfeet Reservation Volunteer Kelsey It so happened that the morning I wake up with a sore throat and stuffy nose is the same day we go visit the Blackfeet “medicine woman” in Browning. But more about that later. I slowly…
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Father and Daughter Serve Others on the Blackfeet Reservation

Global Volunteer and father, Mark, describes serving others on the Blackfeet Reservation with his daughter. This morning when the daily volunteer projects were assigned, we got the word that our help was needed in the town of Babb. Tai…
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June 4th, 2012 Browning, Montana, The Blackfeet Reservation

by Miriam After breakfast and a group meeting, we headed over to Blackfeet Community College (BCC) to meet with members of the community who wanted to request our assistance. These people included Smokey Henrickson (the buildings manager),…
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Bingo!

Yesterday I left many sets of the flash cards at the school. Today I was very pleased to see the English teacher already going through them to determine what she might use in her class. Each class today was Bingo time. We played Bingo last…
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serving others Blackfeet Reservation

Flash Card Lessons

  Wednesday morning at 7:30 found all the Ohio people in the lobby with their luggage, off to catch the 8:04 AM train to Bucharest. Their final destination will be Seattle on Thursday that will go on forever! Meanwhile Lori was back…
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Laughter

  Today was our second day at the hospital. It was wonderful to arrive in the morning and already see looks of happy familiarity on the children's faces. We got right to work, taking children outside, for walks down the hall, or for…
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serving others Blackfeet Reservation

We are Family

While we were in Iringa, we ate breakfast and then walked to the Headquarters of the Global Volunteers Organization to meet with the General Secretary Nayman Chavalla. He made me feel more secure as he told us that we were in safe hands. I…
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