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Our community partners represent large and small local organizations, all striving to provide essential services to children and families.  Local leaders, volunteers and Global Volunteers staff write about resourceful community partners that direct volunteers’ work projects in every service program.

Partners' Stories Greece

New Refugee Program Engages Global Volunteers in Crete

Thalassa of Solidarity- Refugee project & Community partner, Greece

In early 2016, Global Volunteers Crete teams were called upon by local authorities to help meet the needs of the sudden large influx of Syrian refugees to Greece. Volunteers worked packaging and sorting donated clothing and preparing boxes for shipping to Athens. Since then, more than a million refugees and migrants have traveled across Greece. Today, Greece […]

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June 29, 2022/by Sam Pinakoulaki
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Partners' Stories Texas

Rio Grande Valley community partner says, “We’re trying to build a better world.”

Global Volunteers works in developing communities inside the U.S. as well as around the world. Volunteers are drawn to opportunities to help upgrade the daily lives of average people living in under-resourced communities. Texas Community Partner Ann Cass, director of Proyecto Azteca, a non-profit home-building program, sat down with retired ABC broadcast reporter and Global […]

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May 30, 2022/by Michele Gran
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Partners' Stories Greece

Seven-Year “Dream” Comes True in Crete’s House of Angels for Children

Since 2014, Global Volunteers has worked alongside the Union of Women Associations of Heraklion (UWAH) to improve the lives of vulnerable women and children in Crete. Our partnership has mobilized volunteers to help Association members learn English, paint and clean their shelter for abused women and children, and produce crafts projects to raise money for […]

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December 2, 2021/by Sam Pinakoulaki
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Development Impact, Partners' Stories Peru

Building Student Capacity in Peru

Sagrada Familia School Peru

Unlike in many Western nations, the most pressing issues students in Peru confront are not which career to pursue or lack of motivation. Rather, as in many struggling communities worldwide, a deficient basic education and lack of financial resources to pay for tuition curtails the prospects of all but the most prosperous students. For this […]

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August 24, 2021/by Global Volunteers
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Partners' Stories Peru

Children’s Community in Peru Looks Beyond The Pandemic

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At the height of the first wave of the pandemic, Peru had the highest mortality rate in the world, almost doubling the second place, and tripling the mortality rate of the U.S. The World Bank reports the strict and prolonged quarantine enforced to contain the virus then led to a decline in GDP of 11 […]

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August 18, 2021/by Global Volunteers
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Partners' Stories Vietnam

Personal Stories Reveal Vietnam Partner’s Role in Life Transformations

Volunteer works at Omamori Spa in Vietnam, helping students and staff them approve their English course.

Two Vietnamese adults who have worked with Global Volunteers teams relates the realities of living with a visual disability, and how community partner Blind-Link has enabled them to thrive. Read on to learn the obstacles and opportunities they encounter, and how you can help. Global Volunteers’ partner, Blind-Link, is a nonprofit social enterprise with a […]

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March 13, 2021/by Global Volunteers
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Partners' Stories Peru

Peru Community Partner Vaults Hurdles to Build Life-Giving Plant

Everyone in the community participated oxygen-plant

With characteristic single-minded determination, Global Volunteers’ Country Host Partner Miguel Rodríguez led staff and supporters of Sagrada Familia on a campaign of mercy in Lima, Peru. In four months, they’ve overcome ingrained obstacles to supply oxygen tanks to COVID-19 patients who aren’t adequately treated at medical facilities. After resident children fundraised virtually, the hardworking staff […]

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March 7, 2021/by Global Volunteers
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Partners' Stories Peru

Community Partner Conducts Life-Giving Event in Peru

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Global Volunteers’ ongoing support inspired community partner Sagrada Familia to tackle a critical issue in Peru currently: The lack of oxygen to treat COVID-19 patients. Using their talents, the resident children held an online fundraising event to help supply their neighbors oxygen, for free. Thanks to all the volunteers who supported this effort! Sagrada Familia […]

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September 24, 2020/by Global Volunteers
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Partners' Stories Nepal

Nepal Community Partner Prepares Children for Productive Future

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Buddhi Man Seresta, founder of Papa’s House orphanage and pastor of Fresh Fire Church in Kathmandu, had a difficult time growing up without his father. Yet, the love and care he received from his mother impressed on him his advantages – which thousands of children without parents lacked. As he grew up, he transformed his […]

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May 11, 2020/by Michele Gran
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Partners' Stories Peru

Peruvian Children Feed Others with Bread of Love During Pandemic

Peru Country Manager Daniel Salazar shares the exemplary actions of children at Sagrada Familia children’s home in Peru. As food has become scarce during the COVID-19 lock-down, they support their community willingly with the little they have – knowing their generosity is a sign of hope for the world. By Daniel Salazar What do you […]

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April 9, 2020/by Global Volunteers
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