Global Volunteers
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St. Paul, MN 55117-1628 USA
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globalvolunteers.org
email@globalvolunteers.org
Federal EIN: 36-3352680
375 East Little Canada Road
St. Paul, MN 55117-1628 USA
(800) 487-1074 | toll-free
(651) 482-0915 | fax
globalvolunteers.org
email@globalvolunteers.org
Federal EIN: 36-3352680
Welcoming the August RCP Newborns in Tanzania
What’s more fun than BABIES? In this series, we focus on the newest members of the Reaching Children’s Potential (RCP) Demonstration Program in Tanzania — newborns. In this post, we welcome six babies born in August 2021. Their moms joined the program to provide them a healthy start at life, and the nutrition and care […]
Reaching Children’s Potential in Tanzania: Welcoming New Moms to the Program in August
Every month, Global Volunteers’ caregivers in the Ukwega Ward of Tanzania meet with families who wish to participate in the Reaching Children’s Potential (RCP) Demonstration Program. The goal of RCP is to eliminate childhood stunting in all five of the villages served: Ipalamwa, Makalanga, Lulindi, Ukwega, and Makungu. Specifically, families obtain the nutrition, health care, knowledge, technology, […]
Nepalese Children and Community Partners Await Volunteers’ Return
Global Volunteers’ Nepal Service Program, launched only a year and a half before the pandemic struck, had just reached a predictable rhythm before it was suspended in March 2020. Since then, the need and commitment from our community partners have grown, as has our eagerness to resume meaningful service opportunities as soon as possible. Nepal […]
Why I Give: The Children’s Trust in the Universe Inspired Me
Seven years ago Margaret “Maggi” Gallaher began volunteering with Global Volunteers, and has since served on five programs – in the Cook Islands, Romania, Montana, Peru, and West Virginia. As a pediatrician, Maggi is deeply dedicated to causes for children. Her dedication led her to become a monthly sponsor and to donate to certain to […]
HOW MY SERVICE IN TANZANIA FORMED MY IDENTITY
In collaboration with the Hairston Foundation, we conducted a Facebook Live interview with Sophia Hairston who joined Global Volunteers’ Reaching Children Potential Program in Tanzania. In this interview, Sophia emphasizes the importance of service especially after the pandemic, described how a day looks like for a volunteer in Tanzania, shares her experience and lessons, and […]
Building Student Capacity in Peru
Unlike in many Western nations, the most pressing issues students in Peru confront are not which career to pursue or lack of motivation. Rather, as in many struggling communities worldwide, a deficient basic education and lack of financial resources to pay for tuition curtails the prospects of all but the most prosperous students. For this […]
Happy Healthy Birthdays for These RCP Children in August 2021!
The Reaching Children’s Potential Program (RCP) of the Ukwega Ward in central Tanzania measures its success by the growth and development of the children in the program. Read about 40 girls and boys who reached their first, second, third, and fourth birthdays in good health and on target to reach all their development milestones in […]
Children’s Community in Peru Looks Beyond The Pandemic
At the height of the first wave of the pandemic, Peru had the highest mortality rate in the world, almost doubling the second place, and tripling the mortality rate of the U.S. The World Bank reports the strict and prolonged quarantine enforced to contain the virus then led to a decline in GDP of 11 […]
International Community Development Profile: Paskalina Niima Family
In this series, families in the Reaching Children’s Potential (RCP) Demonstration Program in Tanzania explain how their participation improves their lives. Global Volunteers’ RCP Program engages short-term volunteers to help parents deliver essential services improving health, eradicating hunger, and enhancing cognition – with the goal of eliminating child stunting in the Ukwega Ward and throughout […]
Alumnus Describes Poland Daily Volunteering Schedule as a “Rewarding and Enriching Experience”
Five-time Poland Volunteer Ken Higgins says working with the students at summer camps in Siedlce, Poland “has been one of the most rewarding and enriching” experiences of his life. Read on for his description of a typical day’s volunteering schedule in Poland. By Ken Higgins I have been blessed enough to be a volunteer at […]