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Conversational English, Development Impact China

Chinese Teachers Talk About Volunteer Impact

Volunteers in China

In the summer, Kunming University runs a 2- to 3- week “staff development” English program for an intact group of Chinese English teachers from elementary, middle and high schools in the area. Global Volunteers is invited to assist every year with the program. Volunteers lead Chinese English teachers in conversations to help improve their English […]

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August 29, 2017/by Global Volunteers
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Development Impact, Service-Learning Cook Islands

New Student Mentoring Projects Enhance Volunteers’ Impact in the Cook Islands

Volunteer Projects in the Cook Islands - After school program

James Puati, Global Volunteers’ Cook Islands Country Manager, recently sent an update on two new volunteer projects in the Cook Islands. Volunteers continue to expand their positive impact in schools throughout the island. Announcing Two New Volunteer Projects in the Cook Islands Volunteers have started serving at Avarua School to provide student support in literacy […]

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August 9, 2017/by Global Volunteers
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Development Impact, Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

Ipalamwa is Nexus for Ambitious Demonstration Program

Ipalamwa Tanzania

Ipalamwa, Tanzania is a small rural village of about 5,000 feet in the highest highlands of the Iringa District. It’s literally at the “end of the road.” And, what a road it is!  From here, it seems you can see all the way to the end of the Earth. Indeed, the clear, vast perspective from Ipalamwa […]

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May 9, 2017/by Michele Gran
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Development Impact, Service-Learning

Meaningful Travel for the Experience of a Lifetime

meaningful travel in Africa

To travel in a purposeful, meaningful way is to enrich your life and the lives of others. You dig deeper, stretch farther, give larger. You discover and learn new things about the world and yourself. You leave a positive mark on the communities you visit and the environments you explore. Meaningful travel is being aware of […]

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March 16, 2017/by Michele Gran
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Development Impact, Reaching Children's Potential

The Goal of Development

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In the last article for our series on the concept of poverty, Peru Country Manager and development expert Daniel Salazar discusses the goal of development. In the past blogposts, we have seen that poverty is the inability to enjoy wellbeing in certain basic areas or dimensions according to what people value. But poverty is the negative; […]

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November 11, 2016/by Global Volunteers
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Development Impact, Reaching Children's Potential

The Dimensions of Poverty

The Dimensions of Poverty

This is the third part to our series on the concept of poverty. Here Peru country manager and development expert Daniel Salazar discusses the dimensions of poverty. On our last discussion about poverty, we saw that poverty isn’t about the lack of one thing, but that is rather multidimensional. Also, we noticed that our understanding of poverty […]

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November 10, 2016/by Global Volunteers
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Development Impact, Reaching Children's Potential

Four Approaches to Poverty

Four Approaches to Poverty

Continuing with our series discussing poverty, Peru country manager Daniel Salazar talks about four approaches to poverty. On the last blogpost about the concept of poverty, we briefly discussed the traditional conception of poverty as well as suggested an alternative and more comprehensive understanding of it. But are there other conceptions of poverty besides these two? […]

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November 9, 2016/by Global Volunteers
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Development Impact, Reaching Children's Potential Peru

What is Poverty? – The Concept of Poverty in Real Life

the concept of poverty

This is the first of a four-part series where Peru country manager Daniel Salazar, who has a Master’s Degree in Human Development, discusses the concept of poverty.  We all know poverty is bad and try to avoid it and fight it, either for ourselves or for others. But have you ever stopped and thought about what poverty […]

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November 8, 2016/by Global Volunteers
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Development Impact, Reaching Children's Potential

“We Will Rise” Documentary Spotlights Importance of Girls’ Education

girls' education is critical

First Lady Michelle Obama’s mission is to help educate girls around the world, and is the expressed theme of CNN’s new original film:  “We Will Rise.” This documentary is a follow up to CNN Films’ 2013 “Girl Rising” which presented girls’ stories from around the world and explained how the power of education can change the world.  Education […]

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October 12, 2016/by Michele Gran
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Development Impact, Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

October 11: International Day of the Girl

International Day of the Girl

In 2011, the United Nations declared October 11th as the International Day of the Girl Child. Its mission is “to help galvanize worldwide enthusiasm for goals to better girls’ lives, providing an opportunity for them to show leadership and reach their full potential.” It’s a day when humanitarians worldwide unite under the same goal to highlight, discuss, and take […]

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October 11, 2016/by Sam Pinakoulaki
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