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Global Volunteers works in partnership with community leaders on genuine development programs, creating impact in the areas of health, nutrition and intellectual development.

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 Global Volunteers
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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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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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Development Impact Tanzania

Deworming Tablets Are Distributed at RCP Ipalamwa General Clinic

intestinal worms Sub-Saharan Africa.

Unlike new diseases such as COVID-19, intestinal infections caused by parasitic worms have a known and readily available cure. Still, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), intestinal worms affect over 1.5 billion of the world’s poorest and most marginalized people. How is this possible? Read on about Global Volunteers’ effort to prevent infections and […]

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May 26, 2021/by Global Volunteers
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March of Dimes, the World Pediatric Project, 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 (MDGs), which directed the world’s governments and development institutions toward equality […]

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May 18, 2021/by Global Volunteers
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Global Volunteers and the Sustainable Development Goals

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May 7, 2021/by Michele Gran
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Development Impact

Feed the Children 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 (MDGs), which directed the world’s governments and development institutions toward equality […]

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April 25, 2021/by Global Volunteers
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Development Impact Nepal, Vietnam

Self-sufficiency is Enhanced Through Genuine Community Development Projects

Volunteer helps Vietnamese blind students learn English to become self-sufficient

Working toward self-sufficiency is related to many of the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals, and is a baseline criterion of Global Volunteers’ service programs. This post illuminates how volunteers assist two of our community partners in Asia work to elevate local people’s capacity and confidence to become agents of their own progress. When volunteers teach conversational […]

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April 23, 2021/by Global Volunteers
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