Stories from students, retirees, working professionals, couples, families, groups, solo travelers, first-time volunteers, volunteer veterans and everyone in-between from more than 20 countries around the world. Learn about your favorite country in their own words.
Molly, a volunteer serving in Poland, talks about her experience teaching English at Reymontówka camp and a visit to Warsaw. Today, Saturday was a free day with no English classes, so we were offered an opportunity to travel to Warsaw on a private bus. Our breakfast for Saturday started with a delicious fried egg over […]
A volunteer serving in Poland, talks about how the experience of serving at Reymontówka and the first week of teaching in Poland. For our team, today was the last day of our first week of teaching in Poland! All of us have been quite impressed with the eagerness of the students to learn and their […]
Lori, a volunteer serving in Poland, talks about her experience being welcomed and serving the first day in Siedlce County. Cheese fritters were the breakfast entrée that greeted us on this Monday morning. Others for the first time tried the black current juice. Following breakfast we moved to the resource room where we briefly reviewed […]
Team 245 has arrived. There are 11 of us to add to the nearly 3000 Global Volunteers who have already served the Siedlce area since 1990. Festivities are planned for the weekend to celebrate our 25 years of service teaching English. Dorota Wierzbicka is our team leader. Volunteer introductions were followed by an orientation to […]
After mutually experiencing a yearning to get off the beaten track, Lisa Graumlich and her daughter, Maya Graumlich, decided to make a difference in the world by becoming Global Volunteers. So in the summer of 2014, Lisa and Maya embarked on an exciting adventure to provide meaningful service to the children and community in Pommern, a […]
In the summer of 2014, Liz Turnage and her son Jacob decided to take some time out of their busy schedule to make a difference in a rural village in Tanzania. This was a difficult task given that Liz is a full-time and hardworking physician and Jacob is an active teenager and involved high school […]
In the winter of 2014, Deborah Pollard and her two children, Meghan and Aidan, embarked on a volunteer experience of a lifetime to Tanzania. They volunteered for six weeks, providing a variety of different services throughout their program – teaching conversational English and other basic subjects, doing light labor and construction, assisting the health clinic […]
Today is the last day of teaching kids at the Anse la Raye Primary School. It makes me sad to think about leaving them. They all showed so much perseverance and everyday brought a smile to my face and the other volunteers. If I learned one thing, it’s that no matter where you started, you […]
Team Journal for March 31, 2015 Message of the day: “Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts” Winston Churchill Today was overcast and cooler than predicted. We met Phyllis in the lobby at 7:20 for a quick ride over to the branch (old) campus of Shaanxi […]
Team Journal for March 26, 2015 Message of the day: “You’re just jealous, because we act stupid in public and people still love us.” -Unknown The morning classes went like usual for Montana and LuRue doing their normal competition games. The kids started out shy at first, but by the end, the kids were jumping […]