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Development Impact, Partners' Stories Peru

Building Student Capacity in Peru

Sagrada Familia School 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 […]

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August 24, 2021/by Global Volunteers
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Development Impact Peru

Building Local Capacity in Peru

volunteer Kathryn with her 4-years-old class and teachers sagrada familia peru

Global Volunteers’ goal is to support and fortify community leaders’ vision for self-sufficiency – ultimately to enable children and families to reach their full potential. An essential step towards this vision is building local capacity. In this interview as the fourth post in the series, Peru Country Manager Daniel Salazar shares how Peruvians are building […]

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August 1, 2021/by Global Volunteers
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Development Impact St Lucia

Building Local Capacity in St. Lucia

volunteer in St. Lucia

Global Volunteers’ goal is to support and fortify community leaders’ vision for self-sufficiency – ultimately to enable children and families to reach their full potential. An essential step towards this vision is building local capacity. St. Lucia Country Manager Chemida Popo – Cox describes our role in helping our community partners build local capacity in […]

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July 18, 2021/by Global Volunteers
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Development Impact Nepal

Building Local Capacity in Nepal

international Volunteer work to improve the quality of life of girls and women in Nepal.

A measure of success for Global Volunteers is supporting local efforts so much that volunteers either are no longer needed, or are assigned to ever-expanding community projects. By avoiding creating dependency, we work so that our partners are self-sufficient and local projects are sustainable. An essential step towards achieving this goal is building local capacity. […]

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July 12, 2021/by Global Volunteers
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Development Impact Ecuador

Quality of Life Rises in Ecuador

international Volunteer reupholsters seats while children watch an early childhood development center in Calderón, Ecuador.

What is the ultimate purpose of volunteering abroad with Global Volunteers? Besides the benefits to the volunteers themselves, the goal is to improve the lives of the local people in the communities where we work. This begs the question: how does the work volunteers do improve the lives of the local people? On this post […]

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July 10, 2021/by Global Volunteers
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Development Impact, Group Volunteering Tanzania

Physical Therapy Students Help Children with Special Needs in Tanzania

Changing the world, one child at a time. Through service-learning with Global Volunteers in Tanzania, Regis University Global Pathways physical therapy students have provided services to children with special needs who wouldn’t otherwise have assistance. This post highlights Agano and Miriam – who made great strides in developing their motor skills after two weeks of […]

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July 6, 2021/by Maggie Bjorklund
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Development Impact

Rise Against Hunger and the Sustainable Development Goals

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

We continue our series on how companion NGOs address the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with an interview with our partner, Rise Against Hunger’s Chief Executive Officer Barry Mattson and Chief Programs Officer Edna Ogwangi. Global Volunteers’ multi-faceted partnership with Rise Against Hunger is a model for international cooperation to multiply NGO impact. A […]

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July 1, 2021/by Michele Gran
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Development Impact

Service Programs Resume; Volunteers Sought Through 2022

Global Volunteers’ leadership has approved a “careful and conscientious” resumption of some service programs in countries that have resumed tourism, and where local pandemic precautions can optimize health and safety. After a very difficult year without volunteer assistance, our community partners are eager to welcome Global Volunteers teams. Register now to join our historic return […]

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June 11, 2021/by Michele Gran
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Development Impact, News and Updates Peru

Young Voices from Peru: Estefany

young student peru physical therapy

This sixth story in a series about recent high school graduates from our partner community, the Sagrada Familia children’s home in Peru, is about Estefany Arias Ramírez. As a day student at the campus school, she witnessed first-hand the difference between her home environment and the supportive environment in the community. Six years ago, she […]

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June 7, 2021/by Global Volunteers
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Development Impact

International Committee of the Red Cross and the Sustainable Development Goals

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

In 2015, the United Nations developed 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a “shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future” to be achieve by 2030. The SDGs were preceded by the eight Millennium Development Goals, which directed the world’s governments and development institutions toward equality in […]

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June 5, 2021/by Michele Gran
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