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Transgender Woman Shares Advice for Service Travel

Nine-time Global Volunteers alumni Linda Roberts says from an early age, the concept of the Peace Corps inspired her. As she neared retirement, she sought out similar programs with a shorter time commitments. Global Volunteer's policy of inclusivity…
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MONTANA STUDENTS CALL VOLUNTEER SERVICE IN TANZANIA “LIFE-CHANGING”

Nursing students from Montana State University (MSU) described their experience volunteering on Global Volunteers’ Reaching Children’s Potential (RCP) Program in Tanzania as “life-altering”, “extremely meaningful”, and “the best…
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Fueling the Future: The RCP Program’s School Feeding Project

Imagine you are back in school, spending 6 to 8 hours or more per day in class, working hard to learn new subjects. Now imagine doing it without breakfast to sustain you. This is a reality faced by many Tanzanian students, whose parents cannot…
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Partnership Improves Nutrition, Eliminates Hunger in Tanzanian Villages

To help eradicate hunger, Global Volunteers has established partnerships with many organizations around the world, including Rise Against Hunger, an international hunger relief non-profit organization. Rise Against Hunger coordinates the packaging…
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Access to Quality Healthcare in Rural Areas is Life-Changing for RCP Families

Not long after the launch of the Reaching Children’s Potential (RCP) Program in Ipalamwa, Tanzania in the summer of 2017, a new idea was born. Though it was not part of the original plan, the first team of volunteers learned about the…
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Parent Workshops – Transferring Knowledge so Parents Can Do What They Hope to Do

Children are not born with a manual. Most parents learn how to raise their children from their own parents or grandparents. Unfortunately, parents are not always the best instructors. Science, on the other hand, teaches many positive and effective…
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The Power Behind the Reaching Children’s Potential Program: Parents!

Around the world, parents, especially mothers, play a critical role in preventing malnutrition and supporting the growth and development of their children. Before birth, mothers’ nutrition, health practices, and mental well-being impact the…
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The History of the Reaching Children’s Potential Program from Anse-la-Raye to Ipalamwa

Running to catch a taxi after meetings at the World Food Programme (WFP) in Rome, Nancy Walters, a senior executive at WFP, handed me a copy of The Essential Package and encouraged me to read it. This United Nations agencies document detailed…
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Why nutrition is a smart investment

Malnutrition and food insecurity are grim issues affecting millions of people worldwide. The latest report from the United Nations shows we are moving backward in efforts to eliminate hunger, and families in low-resource communities bear the…
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Insight and Compassion Fuels Blackfeet Food Security Program

The Blackfeet Food Access and Sustainability Team (FAST Blackfeet) helps people living in poverty on the Blackfeet Reservation confront food insecurity head on. By providing recipes, nutrition classes and weekly access to meal staples and traditional…
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RCP Families Eagerly Await Volunteers in Ventanilla, Peru

Since the summer of 2022, the families enrolled in the Reaching Children’s Potential (RCP) Program in Ventanilla, Peru have been working hard to improve their children’s health and well-being. In the hillside communities surrounding the…
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Blackfeet Reservation Witnesses School’s Values in Action on Summer Service Program

In 2022, Loyola Blakefield, a Catholic, Jesuit college preparatory school in Baltimore County, Maryland, chose Global Volunteers for their first service-learning program on the Blackfeet Reservation of Montana. Recognizing an alignment between…
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