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.
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, […]
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 […]
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 the world on the human level, and to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The nine senior nursing students from St. John Fisher College arrived in Ipalamwa, Tanzania with a clear assignment: To leverage their clinical capstone project to assess the heath of RCP mothers and children, and support caregivers on home visits. By combining their emergent skills with a desire to serve, they had the opportunity to help […]
In the second part of her essay excerpted here, Nilusha Jayasinghe talks about why she believes schools should include international service in high school curricula. Read the first part of her essay here. Student Volunteering Abroad: One Of the Best Decisions Of My Life With every graduate school application, job opportunity, or volunteer opportunity that comes […]
International Student Volunteer Nilusha Jayasinghe explains why high school volunteering and international service was useful in shaping her career choices and worldview. My International Service Beginnings In May of 2010, at the age of 19, I departed the United States to Ghana, a country that I had never been to before. For two weeks, alongside three […]
Jed Pettit, a Montana volunteer and recent University of Alberta graduate, sent us this letter to students who are considering joining a Global Volunteers student volunteer program. Read on to learn what motivated him to offer this advice to other college students. Many young people today face challenges in getting into their college or university program […]