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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 Volunteers, Student Volunteers, Volunteer Voices Greece

Reflections From Madeleine!

In August 2014 Matt and Anita Wells along with their four children Eliza, Madeleine, Nathaniel, and Lydia took part on a service program here in Malevizi, Greece. They, along with thirteen other volunteers ranging in age from ten years to 64  years, split up into small groups, chose their class assignments, and got to work helping […]

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January 20, 2015/0 Comments/by Sam Pinakoulaki
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Family Volunteers, Volunteer Voices Montana

Meaningful Work on the Reservation

This is simply an amazing experience for my daughter and for me.  I’m profoundly appreciative that I had the opportunity to do some work related to psychiatry (although I still would have been happy to paint fences!). The treatment program where I did an in-service with the staff on debriefing is really pretty amazing.  They were remarkably receptive, […]

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June 30, 2013/0 Comments/by Michele Gran
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Family Volunteers, Volunteer Voices Tanzania

A Family’s Service Adventure in Tanzania

The Ford Family of Great Falls, Montana (all nine of them) served together in Pommern in June 2013.  This is their journal of their Adventure in Service. 8/6/13 – Lovely seaside dinner with Edward. The food is delicious and the view of the water amazing, but we realize this is the tourist “Disneyland” part of […]

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June 8, 2013/0 Comments/by Dorota Wierzbicka
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Family Volunteers, Volunteer Voices Montana

Father and Daughter Serve Others on the Blackfeet Reservation

serving others Blackfeet Reservation

Global Volunteer and father, Mark, describes serving others on the Blackfeet Reservation with his daughter. This morning when the daily volunteer projects were assigned, we got the word that our help was needed in the town of Babb. Tai asked me to get her lunch together while she gathered her work clothes. I hastily packed two […]

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June 21, 2012/0 Comments/by Michele Gran
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Family Volunteers, Volunteer Voices Montana

“People Just Like You”

by Melissa My children have a book about the kids around the world. The message of the book is that “there are kids all around the world just like you.” Seattle, WA and Browning, MT are not a world apart in distance; they may seem like a world apart in other ways. In fact, what […]

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August 9, 2011/0 Comments/by Michele Gran
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Family Volunteers, Reaching Children's Potential

Team 209 : Global Volunteers Costa Rica at local highschool

Our team starts the day by digging posts to replace at the new greenhouse site. This new construction will house growth of the reforestation trees (planted at Colegio site and the Santa Elena Reserve) and hydroponic vegetable garden. Here Ella , Igor and agricultural teacher Daniel measure the plastic ceiling on the basketball court. Tomorrow […]

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June 13, 2011/0 Comments/by Michele Gran
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Conversational English, Family Volunteers Poland

Summer English Language Camp in Zakopane, Poland

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The months of June and July blossoms with the beginning of the summer English language camps in Poland. Teams of volunteers who arrive in Siedlce and Zakopane eager to work with elementary school and high school students play a very crucial role in educating the future leaders of Poland. The conversational English exercises take the form […]

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March 9, 2011/0 Comments/by Michele Gran
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Family Volunteers, Volunteer Voices Tanzania

Grandmother and Grandson Expand Compassion Together Through Volunteerism

Mother and children participate on the RCP program in Ipalamwa, Tanzania

One of the greatest benefits of serving others is the perspective you obtain about your own place in the world.  More and more, grandparents are enabling their grandchildren to travel with them to serve in developing communities to understand how we’re all connected, but live very different lives.  In this snapshot, Kathryn and Chris shared […]

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September 6, 2007/2 Comments/by globalvol
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