While service is the purpose of a Global Volunteers program, ample time is available after the work day and on weekends is available to discover the natural, historical and cultural attractions of the host country.
Sometimes your everyday life keeps you so busy that you don’t realize all the amazing things you can find in your city, much the less in your country. Peru is a country with a rich ancient culture that can be seen everywhere in ruins scattered around cities. It can also be appreciated through its music […]
Message of the Day – “What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.” Pericles, ancient Greek politician Our final full day in Cuba. After what I think everyone would agree was a tasty breakfast, we toured Old Havana with our guide Guillermo. […]
A busy weekend of people-to-people events started with an historic museum visit ending with a Conga line. We said a sad farewell to our one-week volunteers. On to Moron, stopping at Rancho Palma for a lunch under grass roofs among the caged animals. When we entered Moron, it was carnival so streets were packed with […]
Jabeh Peabody previously served on a Global Volunteers program in Montana with her colleagues from inVentiv Health Clinical, so she already had experience working hand and hand with local people in one of our host communities before arriving in Cuba. “This kind of travel is right up my alley, ” she explains. “Global Volunteers makes it […]
Molly, a volunteer serving in Poland, talks about her experience teaching English at Reymontówka camp and a visit to Warsaw. Today, Saturday was a free day with no English classes, so we were offered an opportunity to travel to Warsaw on a private bus. Our breakfast for Saturday started with a delicious fried egg over […]
Team Journal for March 31, 2015 Message of the day: “Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts” Winston Churchill Today was overcast and cooler than predicted. We met Phyllis in the lobby at 7:20 for a quick ride over to the branch (old) campus of Shaanxi […]
Team Journal for March 22, 2015 On Sunday, Montana skipped breakfast while LuRue went down for her usual egg, bread, juice, and tea. Don happened by, having already eaten and been up for hours, of course. The two discussed a trip to the Shaanxi History Museum. Montana was ready to come, so the three took […]
Team Journal for March 21, 2015 Message of the day: “We live now in a global village and we are in one single family. It’s our responsibility to bring friendship and love from all different places around the world and to live together in peace.” Jackie Chan The weekend was rather low-key for the members […]
Speech given by volunteer Priscilla Zobel at final celebration in Queretaro, Mexico: How many of you remember when you decided to become a teacher? How many of you remember a teacher who changed your life, a teacher who encouraged you? How many of you can remember feeling that a teacher believed in you? How many […]
We rose early to have breakfast before we began our trip to Kanchipuram. After a breakfast of boiled egg, Appam with sweet milk, we loaded our small bags into Stephen’s Tata car for our adventure. We stopped and looked through the fence at the memorial garden, a stop that brought memories of the contemplative walk I […]