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Volunteer Voices St Lucia

Helping Kids With So Much Potential in St. Lucia

helping kids in St. Lucia

Overall, it was a really good day helping kids with so much potential in St. Lucia.  I’ve been working at Kids Step Early Learning Center, where this morning, we had our daily assembly of singing songs and announcing news. When we switched off into our separate teaching groups, I read a book to the tiny […]

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November 26, 2013/by Maggie Bjorklund
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Volunteer Voices St Lucia

Making Progress Through Hundreds of Interactions

Some volunteers were able to participate in an early morning yoga class offered by one of the volunteers. We met for an excellent breakfast and had our team meeting right after breakfast.  Warren drove all the volunteers to their assigned locations. It was a rainy day, but there were periods of clear weather. I was […]

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November 25, 2013/by Maggie Bjorklund
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Volunteer Voices St Lucia

Tomorrow we begin anew

Monday morning~ After breakfast and morning meeting – we departed for our assignments.  Margaret & I were off to a meeting at Marigot Secondary School with Principal DuJohn, Vernett James, the youth officer from the Dept. of Ministry, and Ms Fitz &Ms James – teachers from the Home Economics & Agriculture program. We gathered to […]

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June 4, 2013/by Global Volunteers
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News and Updates, Reaching Children's Potential St Lucia

Volunteers: The Essential Element for Providing Essential Services in Anse la Raye

Continuing our work on community projects to help deliver the 12 Essential Services required for children to reach their full potential is the heart of The St. Lucia Demonstration Project.  Our actions together will help minimize factors inhibiting children’s capacity, while optimizing those variables which will promote their full growth and development.  It’s not easy […]

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May 15, 2013/by Global Volunteers
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Volunteer Voices St Lucia

Learing about Earthboxes

  Breakfast as usual. Carita & Emily worked at Kids Step preschool and Katie showed up in the afternoon to help after finishing with her RCP visits.  Tracey had a good day with 4 family visits with Daniella to Roving Caregiver mothers and children.   Dawn, Warren, & Margaret visited FlavianIsimbert, the Primary School Principal […]

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May 14, 2013/by Global Volunteers
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News and Updates, Volunteer Voices St Lucia

Telling the St. Lucia Project Story

Dawn guides cameraman Dave as Francois Henry selects seedlings at the nursery. It’s been very interesting watching reporter Jason Davis and photographer Dave Peterson work – interviewing volunteers and capturing the various aspects of each work project. They started out on Monday at Kids’ Step interviewing Carita and recording the students tending the Earth Boxes.  […]

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May 9, 2013/by Global Volunteers
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Volunteer Voices St Lucia

All Working Hard

  Today we all met for breakfast at Ben’s Hideaway, and gathered some more resources from the resource room before we were on our way.   Margaret and Dawn went back to the health clinic to look over birth records and were pleased to find they went all the way back to 1979!  They then […]

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May 8, 2013/by Global Volunteers
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Volunteer Voices St Lucia

We Learn about our Work Projects in Anse la Raye, St. Lucia

 St. Lucia Day Two:  our first work day in the field, was an extremely unique and interesting experience. Team Alpha Dogs (Tony Lombardi, Sean, Cameron, Tyler, Kevin, myself (and our one Doggette, Melina) were off to an old abandoned building to help refurnish and reconstruct a facility for the “Youth on Fire” in Anse Le […]

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March 11, 2013/by Global Volunteers
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Volunteer Voices St Lucia

Meant To Be

A sunny”home” for an RCP mom’s Earth Box. Volunteers gathering for breakfast; thought of the day; the journal reading; loading in the bus; off to our projects – it has been a long time for me since my last Global Volunteers program,  but I feel at home again.  Meeting the staff at the RCP; walking through the […]

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February 13, 2013/by Global Volunteers
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Volunteer Voices St Lucia

Work and Routine

  “My son Ajohny enjoys watering the plants.  He is two years and four months old.  I hold him up to the Earth Box, he waters it.” Zarana proudly pointed at her Earth Box, which was flourishing on a board creatively invented by one of her brothers.  With a beautiful smile, Zarana said “I love […]

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February 12, 2013/by Global Volunteers
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