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Students, faculty and alumni describe how through Global Volunteers’ exceptional service opportunities, they’ve gained career and personal life skills, insight into cultures and global systems, and confidence as global citizens.

Service-Learning

Best Student Service-Learning Volunteer Abroad Projects with Global Volunteers

Have you felt the world is waiting for you to explore? Personal experience gives you a depth of knowledge that isn’t accessible other ways. What’s more, Global Volunteers offers the “added value” of travel with meaning. Imagine spending a week during your spring break, J-term, or summer vacation as an international volunteer – experiencing the […]

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December 28, 2021/by Global Volunteers
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Service-Learning, Volunteer Voices Tanzania

New Mom Inspired by Experience In Tanzania Chooses Swahili Name for Her New Daughter

Global Volunteers Alumna Lilly Cook says her passion for teaching and serving others united in Tanzania in 2019 on a University of Northern Colorado student group. This year she and her husband, Collin, welcomed a baby girl into their family, and named her Addiah, meaning “Gift from God” in Swahili. Read on to learn how […]

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September 15, 2021/by Maggie Bjorklund
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Service-Learning Tanzania

HOW MY SERVICE IN TANZANIA FORMED MY IDENTITY

In collaboration with the Hairston Foundation, we conducted a Facebook Live interview with Sophia Hairston who joined Global Volunteers’ Reaching Children Potential Program in Tanzania. In this interview, Sophia emphasizes the importance of service especially after the pandemic, described how a day looks like for a volunteer in Tanzania, shares her experience and lessons, and […]

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August 26, 2021/by Millie Pinakoulaki
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Group Volunteering, Service-Learning Tanzania

Global Volunteers Promises Service Adventure With Group Volunteering in Tanzania

Along the dusty, bumpy East African roads outside Iringa in the central highlands of Tanzania are traditional villages where life is lived in startling simplicity. Arriving in Ipalamwa in the Ukwega Ward, two teams of physical therapy students from Regis University Global Health Pathways group found a way of life vastly different from their own, […]

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May 1, 2021/by Millie Pinakoulaki
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Service-Learning, Why I Give Tanzania

Why I Give: Student Alumnus Sustains Tanzania Dental Support From Home

A mention of  Global Volunteers on our partner’s website moved Maddy Aungst, an aspiring dental student, and her dentist father to help meet the needs of families and children in the Reaching Children’s Potential (RCP) Demonstration Project in Ipalamwa, Tanzania. After appealing to family, friends, and their faith community for material support, the father and […]

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February 5, 2021/by Maggie Bjorklund
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Reaching Children's Potential, Service-Learning Tanzania

Regis University Students Cite Service as a Channel to Long-Term Development

Working alongside caregivers in the Ukwega Ward, Tanzania provides health care professionals and students alike opportunities to enhance the care, health and nutrition of mothers and children in the Reaching Children’s Potential Program. Students in Regis University‘s 2019 Global Pathways Program reflect on how contributing their skills to long-term projects changes the trajectory of people […]

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October 8, 2020/by Global Volunteers
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Service-Learning

Students Volunteering Abroad Gain Résumé-Enhancing Experience

High school volunteering abroad

International service, when properly administered, has the potential for mutual benefit to those who serve and those who are served. When this is achieved, a deeper understanding between cultures produces greater and more long-term outcomes. This “higher good” is coveted by students who wish to better understand themselves, the world on the human level, and […]

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April 30, 2020/by Global Volunteers
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Service-Learning, Volunteer Voices Peru

Student Volunteer Learns About Selflessness and Hope in Peru

Student volunteer Josh Elkin describes his experience serving at Sagrada Familia in Peru while learning about himself and from local people. At the age of 18, he sought out a volunteer experience that would present him with challenges and help him to achieve a perspective beyond that of his home and normal routine. Here, he […]

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February 28, 2020/by Maggie Bjorklund
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Service-Learning, Volunteer Voices Cook Islands

Maine Student’s International Service Changes Her Perspective of Learning and Travel

It might be that there’s no farther point from the Cook Islands in the United States than Maine. But, that didn’t discourage University of Maine Honors College student Lucie Bonneville from traveling to the South Pacific with Global Volunteers. Undaunted by the 7,000 mile journey, she sought to help others in the global community and […]

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September 25, 2019/by Millie Pinakoulaki
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Group Volunteering, Service-Learning South Dakota

Pharmacy Student Volunteer Group Discovers the Reservation

A student volunteer group from the Wegmans School of Pharmacy at St. John Fisher College discovered their week of service on the Rosebud Reservation of South Dakota really does make a difference. Learn from their experience here! Just one week. Would that be enough time to truly have even a little impact on people’s lives […]

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September 18, 2019/by Millie Pinakoulaki
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