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What’s more meaningful than a family volunteering together? Vacation together and help improve the world.  Work with other family volunteers on important community projects for one or two weeks.  See how meaningful your family vacation can be when you volunteer in another culture.

Family Volunteering, Volunteer Voices Montana

Father-Daughter Pair Describe Montana Experience as “Culturally rich, Spiritually fulfilling and Emotionally gratifying”

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When Don Nash and his daughter Cassidy first heard the term “volunteer vacation”, it seemed like a contradiction to them. Then, they heard about Global Volunteers’ service program with the Blackfeet Nation and thought it would be a good opportunity to give back as well as learn more about Don’s Native American heritage. They chose […]

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February 26, 2022/by Maggie Bjorklund
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Family Volunteering

Couples Volunteering Abroad Gain New, Mutual Insights

How to Volunteer Abroad as a Couple

Young couples, mature couples, newlyweds, 50+ anniversary couples. Global Volunteers offers an adventure in service together. When you consider how to volunteer abroad on your first…or tenth service program, consider how serving as a couple enlarges the experience. Some have even chosen a Global Volunteers service program as their honeymoon! You’ll discover much more about each […]

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February 11, 2022/by Global Volunteers
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Family Volunteering

Best Family Volunteer Vacations for Summer 2022

Unplug from smartphones and video games and engage the world as a family. Many volunteering families tell us that spending a week or two helping others in a new community is a welcome change in routine from two years of limited mobility and perspective. Whether at age 6 or 86, your life (and your children’s and grandchildren’s) […]

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January 20, 2022/by Global Volunteers
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Family Volunteering, Group Volunteering

Best Alternative Spring Break Volunteer Programs for 2022

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November 30, 2021/by Global Volunteers
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Family Volunteering, Group Volunteering

How to Volunteer Abroad as a Group

In addition to individual volunteer programs, Global Volunteers provides meaningful opportunities for groups to contribute towards international long-term development projects. Over the years, we have mobilized hundreds of volunteers on organized programs for groups, small or large, intact or as part of individual teams. Currently, we have programs in 14 countries across five continents: Africa, Asia, Europe, […]

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June 1, 2021/by Global Volunteers
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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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April 11, 2021/by Maggie Bjorklund
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Family Volunteering Cuba

My Transformation Through Service

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First-time volunteer Mary Horstman remembers her December, 2019 “alternative holiday” in service in with her husband, Tom, and sons, EJ and John, as an opportunity to put her faith in action. A nurse and college professor, she spent a week in Havana collaborating on labor projects, spending time with seniors, and practicing English conversation with […]

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December 19, 2020/by Maggie Bjorklund
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Family Volunteering, Volunteer Voices Ecuador

Mother & Daughter Share Unique Experience Together By Volunteering in Ecuador

Mother-daughter pair Ann Hite and Maddie Hite-Smaka volunteered in Ecuador over Maddie’s 26th birthday to be able to spend time together in a different setting, away from home. At the end of their week in service in Quito, Ann and Maddie reflect on their time together and how this experience differed from any other. Maddie […]

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April 5, 2020/by Maggie Bjorklund
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Family Volunteering, Volunteer Voices Peru

Mother-Daughter Pairs Serve Together in Peru and Broaden Their Horizons

Longtime friends Urvi Doshi and Suma Putcha have always been involved as volunteers within their local community in Allen, Texas. Then they decided they wanted to broaden their own and their teenage daughters’ horizons by volunteering internationally. Urvi and Maya (age 17) and Suma and Avani (age 18) spent a week serving with Global Volunteers […]

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November 26, 2019/by Sam Pinakoulaki
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Family Volunteering, Volunteer Voices Greece

FAMILY DISCOVERS HOPE FOR THE FUTURE THROUGH SERVICE IN GREECE

July team to Crete.

Peggy and Bud Cope volunteered in Greece with their three children, Ellie, Adam, and Evan, after having a year that could’ve torn them apart, both physically and emotionally. Peggy had the feeling that the only hope her family had to heal and come together was if they did something meaningful together. So Peggy and her […]

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November 21, 2019/by Sam Pinakoulaki
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