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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.

Conversational English, Projects for Professionals, Reaching Children's Potential

Leverage Your Professional Experience to Enrich the Lives of Others Abroad

On any given Global Volunteers service program, a collection of students, working professionals and retirees come together to make a difference in a community requesting help. How they contribute depends upon each volunteer’s commitment to service and personal experience and energy. For instance, on one service program, a contractor, a sales representative, a dairy farmer, an […]

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February 27, 2015/by Global Volunteers
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Reaching Children's Potential, Volunteer Voices

Inspirational Volunteer Video from Romania

You may never again feel so appreciated after volunteering with the infants and toddlers in the children’s ward of Municipal Hospital in Barlad. The children with sight or hearing impairments or mental disabilities such as autism, Down syndrome and PKU crave your personal attention and care. Read below for an inspirational story told through the […]

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February 18, 2015/by Global Volunteers
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Reaching Children's Potential, Volunteer Voices

Back to India, Back to my Second Home

Team Journal Entry from January 7, 2015: Back to India, back to feeling at home and at peace. I worship every moment spent with the children and was rejuvenated again this morning at Little Angel’s Early Intervention Center. Luckily, most of the children’s ears are clean so I only had to clean three children;s, and […]

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January 7, 2015/by Stephen Raja
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Reaching Children's Potential

Change

Team Journal Entry for January 6, 2015: Yesterday Maria went to the hospital to help clean more children’s ears. Jayne, Victor, and Alex went to PRS to teach conversational English for the second day. After watching Steven and Ester’s fierce conversation, all three of them went to the 6th, 7th, and 8th standard classes. In […]

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January 6, 2015/by Stephen Raja
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Reaching Children's Potential, Volunteer Voices

The Last Word, but not the Last Chapter

Team Journal Entry from January 2, 2015: A lot was riding on this trip to Chennai. Would I feel healthy enough to do it? Would I get sick here? Would I enjoy it as much or more than my first visit in 2012? I needn’t have worried. What a fantastic journey it’s been. For our […]

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January 2, 2015/by Stephen Raja
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Reaching Children's Potential, Volunteer Voices

“The Most Rewarding Day”

Today was one of the most rewarding days on this program. It started in the Assi Illam center, an orphanage that is converted into a day care in the morning to provide an income for the orphanage. When we arrived in the morning the children (all between the ages of 2-4) were excitedly running around […]

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October 8, 2014/by Stephen Raja
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Reaching Children's Potential, Volunteer Voices

First time an Exclusive Team from the UAE

Since it was a public Holiday and all the children were away, Stephen arranged for us to help him and his wife sheeba to cover the Earth box , and clean the library in Seams Children Center. We spent the whole morning there and we finished covering and watering the plants and cleaned and organised half […]

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October 7, 2014/by Stephen Raja
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Reaching Children's Potential, Volunteer Voices

Mission Accomplished!

Team 227 woke up to a rainy morning on Friday, the final day of service for the California Contingent. Watching our Team Members sit down to enjoy our first bite of breakfast at 7:00 a.m. sharp was a thing of beauty, though young Master Haiden was delayed by the onset of a cold and the […]

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August 8, 2014/by Global Volunteers
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Reaching Children's Potential, Volunteer Voices

Starting our service in Costa Rica

It feels like we’ve been in Costa Rica waiting patiently for this day: our day to start serving, to begin connecting, to meet those who we’ve only yet envisioned in our minds. So after our Team #227 had breakfast and a quick team meeting, we headed down the roadside with smiles on our faces and […]

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August 4, 2014/by Global Volunteers
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Conversational English, Reaching Children's Potential

Getting Our Feet Wet

Our first day of classes. We set out in 2 teams with excitement and trepidation. Steven had given us a description of the schools and number of students  to expect, but we did not know what level of English we would find in our students. We had prepared as much as we could on Sunday […]

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March 17, 2014/by Stephen Raja
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