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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.

Development Impact, Family Volunteers

Why I Give: Tom and Tracey Reimann

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, 2021/0 Comments/by Maggie Bjorklund
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Family Volunteers Cuba

My Transformation Through Service

transformation through service

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, 2020/0 Comments/by Maggie Bjorklund
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Family Volunteers, 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, 2020/0 Comments/by Maggie Bjorklund
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Family Volunteers, 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, 2019/0 Comments/by Sam Pinakoulaki
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Family Volunteers, 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, 2019/0 Comments/by Sam Pinakoulaki
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Family Volunteers, Retiree Volunteers Montana

Grandparents Share Experience In Service With Teenage Grandson

Ellen Shenkarow decided to spend her time in retirement helping where necessary through volunteer work. She volunteers with Catholic Social Services helping refugees and asylum seekers in Tucson, Arizona. This summer Ellen, a retired ESL teacher, wanted to spread the spirit of “doing good” with her family and teach her grandson what life is like […]

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November 16, 2019/0 Comments/by Millie Pinakoulaki
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Family Volunteers, Volunteer Voices Tanzania

Teen Volunteer Grateful for Tanzania Service Learning Experience

British volunteer among Tanzanian children

Nathalie Oestmann and her sixteen-year-old daughter, Anna, decided to volunteer in Tanzania to learn about a new culture and work on meaningful service projects. Nathalie and Anna traveled from London to Ipalamwa, Tanzania in July of 2019. Nathalie said, “I came to Global Volunteers to do humanitarian work in a country different from those I […]

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September 30, 2019/0 Comments/by Maggie Bjorklund
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Family Volunteers, Group Volunteering, Student Volunteers

Families, Couples, Groups Unite in Summer Volunteer Programs

Preschoolers in Nepal.

Summer 2019 was a great season of service in Global Volunteers partner communities! We’re grateful for the summer volunteers who served up 77 unique program weeks in China, the Cook Islands, Cuba, Ecuador, Greece, Italy, Nepal, Peru, Poland, St. Lucia, Tanzania, Montana, South Dakota and West Virginia. In addition to solo volunteers and couples, ten […]

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September 8, 2019/0 Comments/by Michele Gran
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Family Volunteers, Volunteer Voices Greece

Alumni Mom and Sons Enjoy a Meaningful Spring Break in Crete

Alumni volunteer Sapna Srivastava and sons Shaan (10) and Rowhan (13) Daly volunteered over the boys’ spring break – serving the children in Maleviziou, Crete. It’s become a family tradition to serve together. Rowhan participated on his first Global Volunteers service program with Sapna in Montana in 2013. Shaan soon joined them when they served […]

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April 9, 2019/0 Comments/by Sam Pinakoulaki
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Boomer Volunteers, Family Volunteers, Student Volunteers

Compassion, Curiosity and Conviction Motivate Women of all Ages to Volunteer Internationally

Maddy

“Marvelous Maddy,” (above) is a student volunteer who raised over $6,000 worth of dental supplies for the RCP  (Reaching Children’s Potential) Clinic in Ipalamwa, Tanzania.“Seeing the children’s faces light up as they held on tightly to their new dental tools was so heartwarming.  At that moment, I was so proud of our fundraising efforts and […]

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March 5, 2019/0 Comments/by Michele Gran
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