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Volunteer Voices Texas

Texas Volunteer Pens Poignant Reflections on Border Program

Laurie Sunderland volunteered in San Juan, Texas on the U.S.-Mexico border on her first service program with Global Volunteers in April this year after having met Global Volunteers while traveling and volunteering abroad. In her blog post, originally posted on her personal blog, Laurie reflects on her week in service, saying she mostly remembers the […]

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July 1, 2022/by Maggie Bjorklund
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Partners' Stories Texas

Rio Grande Valley community partner says, “We’re trying to build a better world.”

Global Volunteers works in developing communities inside the U.S. as well as around the world. Volunteers are drawn to opportunities to help upgrade the daily lives of average people living in under-resourced communities. Texas Community Partner Ann Cass, director of Proyecto Azteca, a non-profit home-building program, sat down with retired ABC broadcast reporter and Global […]

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May 30, 2022/by Michele Gran
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News and Updates Texas

Global Volunteers’ Pioneering Team Cultivates Friendship and Respect along U.S. Border

Ten volunteers launched into action the fourth week of 2022 in south Texas to rejuvenate and expand Global Volunteer’s development partnership in the Rio Grande Valley. Eager to demonstrate genuine compassion and acceptance through their service to families and refugees touched by hardship and poverty, they offered their skills and energy to community partner Proyecto […]

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February 8, 2022/by Michele Gran
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News and Updates Texas

New Texas Partnership Begins With Previous Service Program History

From 1994 through 2000, Global Volunteers worked in partnership with Proyecto Azteca, a non-profit self-help home construction company in the US-Texas border town of San Juan. After federal and state funding declined and undercut the organization’s programming, our service program was suspended until we re-established relations in late 2021. Our renewed Texas Program under Proyecto […]

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November 18, 2021/by Michele Gran
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Volunteers Provide Hands-On Help While Sampling New Culture

Hands on help

Volunteering gives you the chance to be a part of something bigger than yourself, find purpose, and use your civic responsibility for the greater good. On a Global Volunteers service program, you can provide hands on help to communities in need around the world. Without the help of volunteers, our partner communities would struggle to […]

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February 23, 2018/by Maggie Bjorklund
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