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The Reaching Children’s Potential Program (RCP) is a child-focused, parent-driven, family-centered, and community-led comprehensive effort. It begins with pregnancy, and continues through the 18th birthday, with a focus on the first 1,000 days of life. In Tanzania, parents participating in RCP have successfully reduced childhood stunting by 57% through volunteers’ efforts.

Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

A Partnership that Improves Nutrition and Eliminates Hunger in Tanzanian families

To help eradicate hunger, Global Volunteers has established partnerships with many organizations around the world, including Rise Against Hunger, an international hunger relief non-profit organization. Rise Against Hunger coordinates the packaging and distribution of nutritious food and other aid to people in developing countries. They target remote, last-mile communities within hunger pockets designated as “serious” […]

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May 24, 2023/by Andrew Philbrook
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Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

Access to Quality Healthcare in Rural Areas is Life-Changing for RCP Families

Not long after the launch of the Reaching Children’s Potential (RCP) Program in Ipalamwa, Tanzania in the summer of 2017, a new idea was born. Though it was not part of the original plan, the first team of volunteers learned about the healthcare system in the Ukwega Ward and quickly recognized the limited availability of […]

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May 15, 2023/by Mindy Lull
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Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

Parent Workshops – Transferring Knowledge so Parents Can Do What They Hope to Do

Children are not born with a manual. Most parents learn how to raise their children from their own parents or grandparents. Unfortunately, parents are not always the best instructors. Science, on the other hand, teaches many positive and effective things parents can do to help ensure the health and well-being of their children, e.g., proper […]

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May 8, 2023/by Bud Philbrook
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Reaching Children's Potential Peru

RCP Families Eagerly Await Volunteers in Ventanilla, Peru

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Since the summer of 2022, the families enrolled in the Reaching Children’s Potential (RCP) Program in Ventanilla, Peru have been working hard to improve their children’s health and well-being. In the hillside communities surrounding the campus of Global Volunteers’ partner organization, Sagrada Familia, households often lack access to basic necessities including running water, electricity, and […]

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April 17, 2023/by Emily Wood
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Reaching Children's Potential, Service-Learning Peru

13 Volunteer Nursing Students Serve on 1st RCP Program in Peru

nursing students volunteer in Peru

Nursing students from the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University in Minnesota contributed immensely to Global Volunteers’ First Reaching Children’s Potential (RCP) Program in Peru. The Peru RCP Program, a replica of Global Volunteers’ Tanzania RCP Program, officially launched in the summer of 2022. Global Volunteers’ staff and community leaders laid the groundwork […]

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March 21, 2023/by Maggie Bjorklund
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Development Impact, Reaching Children's Potential

Care for Women and Heal the World

Women of the world are an overlooked, dismissed resource for unimaginable change. Over generations, societies which tolerate or promote gender bias and deny girls and women full participation in development squander and repress the contributions of half of the world’s population. With our focus on human and economic development, Global Volunteers is committed to working […]

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March 8, 2023/by Michele Gran
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Development Impact, Reaching Children's Potential

Girls’ Contribution to the World – Nurturers, Laborers, Leaders, Our Future

Girls study, perform domestic chores, work on farms and in stores, carry on traditions, care for elders and siblings, and prepare themselves to take on the responsibilities of adulthood. They’re a fundamental source of transformational change for gender equality, and half of the future resource to the global society and economy.  The world over, as […]

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February 20, 2023/by Michele Gran
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Reaching Children's Potential, Staff Worldwide

Meet the Director of Domestic Programs and RCP Research, Dr. Mindy Lull

This January, Dr. Mindy Lull joined Global Volunteers as the Director of Domestic Programs and RCP Research. She brings a wealth of experience and expertise to our team that will enhance our ability to achieve our goal to help children reach their full potential. As the Director of Domestic Programs, Mindy will be responsible for […]

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January 31, 2023/by Kalliopi Chaniotaki
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Development Impact, Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

2022 Allen Foundation, Inc. Grant Results

The Reaching Children’s Potential (RCP) Nutrition Education and Technology Project has helped improve the nutrition practices of 100 families living in poverty in the Ukwega ward, Tanzania. Over 860 families are currently enrolled in Global Volunteers’ RCP Program, which is a growing initiative that provides families with the necessary resources to improve their nutritional knowledge […]

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January 16, 2023/by Kalliopi Chaniotaki
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Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

Village Families Promote New Dimensions of Mental Wellness in Tanzania

Since 2018, Global Volunteers staff and volunteers have assisted local people in the five villages of the Ukwega Ward of Tanzania in visualizing a model of optimal, community-wide mental wellness to integrate into the primary care system. Beginning in January 2023, a mental wellness assessment will help identify the primary conditions that block that vision. […]

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January 12, 2023/by Michele Gran
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