The world over, your professional skills can be a lifeline for children and families living in poverty. In just one or two weeks, you help maximize children’s learning capability and development, support pregnant women, mothers and families, and care for elders with your unique talents.

Retired Dentist Returns to Practice Through Volunteer Service

Dentistry volunteering in Africa

Procerfina Kebabian, a retired dentist from Massachusetts, decided to spend her winter differently this year and embarked upon a volunteer journey to Tanzania for three weeks. Originally from the Philippines, Procerfina (Procy) retired from dentistry practice 30 years ago. Procy says she felt honored by the request to teach oral health care in Tanzania and […]

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Española, New Mexico Welcomes First Team of Volunteers

The first team of Global Volunteers served in Española, New Mexico in March, to begin what community leaders hope will be a lasting relationship between their schools and Global Volunteers. The team of 13 volunteers worked on a variety of projects in this Hispanic community, forging relationships with teachers, students, and community leaders. Read on […]

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Organizational Leader Broadens Knowledge as Global Volunteer

Since 1977, ZERO TO THREE has helped protect and strengthen babies’ brains through formative family and community connections critical to babies’ and toddlers’ well-being and development. Global Volunteers collaborates with ZERO TO THREE by co-creating media to raise awareness around issues of early childhood, and facilitating teams of volunteer professionals focused on early childhood to […]

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Google Director Finds Meaningful Way To Give Back Through International Service

Volunteer converses with visually impaired student in Vietnam

Elizabeth Wang, Senior Marketing Product Manager at Google, sought both a different way to travel and a meaningful way to give back to the global community. After reviewing several organizations online, Elizabeth selected Global Volunteers’ Vietnam service program. She served in Hanoi at Blind-Link, a non-profit organization which trains visually impaired adults in massage therapy […]

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Volunteers eagerly Apply their Skills to Facelift of Beloved Center

Our Volunteer Team Number 183 to Ecuador in July, 2019 helped our community partner, the Foundation of Ladies of Calderón (FUNDAC) carry out an extremely important renovation project. Read here about the history of this project and the struggle to provide a clean and safe place for disadvantaged children on the outskirts of Quito. Global […]

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Supporting Children and Families as Volunteer Extends her Professional Satisfaction

Four-time Global Volunteer Gemma Lewis has always been passionate about supporting children and their families. As a Children’s Care Coordinator with the National Health Service in the UK, she works with families of children living with severe disabilities to ensure they receive appropriate physical and emotional interventions. It was with this focus on practical support […]

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Retired Physician Finds Satisfaction on Volunteer Service Program in Peru

Global Volunteers Alumna Maggi Gallaher said retirement has liberated her to indulge her appetite for volunteering. For her fourth service program, she served at Sagrada Familia, a community in Peru serving 1,400 at-risk children, from one month to 17 years. The community shelters about 600 homeless and abandoned children and provides nutrition, healthcare and education. […]

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Volunteer Expresses Her Gratitude for Life Through Service to Others

Gila Cohen-Shaw marked her mid-century birthday with a “Gift of Service” to herself through Global Volunteers in St. Lucia (pictured above receiving a hug from a teammate). She followed it up with two service programs in Tanzania shortly afterward. A speech pathologist and therapist by profession, she’s found great reward in the work of our […]

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Volunteering Professional Follows Her Interest to Africa

Volunteer in Africa

Volunteer Ruth Curran reflects on sharing her experiences as a health care professional volunteering in Africa after an earlier program in St. Lucia, West Indies. Excerpted here from her blog, she expresses how difficult it can be to do justice to the depth of those experiences.  Read her own blog post here. Imagine Volunteering in […]

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Crowdsourcing to Volunteer Abroad Comes Naturally to Global Volunteers Alumna

crowdsourcing to volunteer abroad

Many volunteers fund some or all of their service program by fundraising – through appeals to their friends and family members. New York teacher Kelly Malloy’s “crowdsourcing” covered her costs for two service programs – in addition to schoolbooks for students in Tanzania.  It started when she planned to celebrate her 50th birthday by volunteering […]

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