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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, Family Volunteering, Why I Give

Why I Give: Assisting Self-Sufficiency

Global Volunteers relies on a steady stream of volunteers to serve in partner communities each year, ensuring that essential services continue. Volunteers are our essential resource – the human capital that partner communities request and require. Most communities need our help also to support their vision of self-sufficiency with additional financial capital as well. Many […]

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Esperança 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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April 9, 2021/by Global Volunteers
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It Takes a Global Village to Deliver World Health

Health is central to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Specifically, SDG 3 aims to “Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages,” and is underpinned by 13 “targets” covering a wide spectrum of world health. Almost all of the other 16 goals are related to health or their achievement will […]

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April 7, 2021/by Michele Gran
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Development Impact Tanzania

Tanzanian Medical Student Rises Above Poverty With Volunteers’ Extra Help

In 2013, Lulu Kigola was among the best performers of the National Form Two examinations in Tanzania. In primary and secondary school, she was consistently earning top grades. But as the firstborn of four daughters in a poor farming village, her prospects of higher education were distant at best. With the help of a generous […]

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March 31, 2021/by Michele Gran
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Medical Bridges 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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Development Impact Tanzania

Rainwater Harvesting System Multiplies Family’s Options

Just after the first of the year, Getrude Elly Kikoti and her husband, Mwita Mtengela, learned they and their children, Meckson, Gideon, and Richard, would be the first in the Ukwega Ward of Tanzania to receive a household rainwater harvesting system. This opportunity was made possible by a benefactor more than 8,000 miles away from […]

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March 22, 2021/by Michele Gran
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International Confederation of Midwives and the Sustainable Development Goals

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment is integral to each of the 17 SDGs. Only by ensuring the rights and health of women and girls across all the goals will the world achieve justice and inclusion, economies that work for all, and a sustainable environment for future generations. The International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) places […]

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March 8, 2021/by Michele Gran
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Operation Bootstrap Africa and the Sustainable Development Goals

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

In 2015, the United Nations adopted 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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February 27, 2021/by Michele Gran
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Development Impact Nepal, Peru

Cognitive Ability is Enhanced in Youth-Centered Volunteer Projects

Global Volunteers promotes children’s well-being around the world in many different ways so they can realize their full potential. This third post in a series about child development projects examines how brain development enhances cognitive ability, and how our work contributes to healthy brain development for children in partner communities. Although the brain’s wiring is […]

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Food for the Hungry 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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