Global Volunteers is a human and economic development organization that leverages short-term volunteers and visionary institutional partners to help parents and local community partners provide essential services to children and families.
We align our service programs with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to ensure comprehensive, measurable, sustainable, and scalable models. Local leaders direct work project outcomes and set agendas for our long-term partnerships. Individual and corporate funders complete this strategy through project-focused and multi-year grants centered around helping children reach their full potential.
“The Thomas Ohana Foundation is proud to be a major sponsor of Global Volunteer’s efforts in Ipalamwa, Tanzania. Global Volunteers reached out to a forgotten community in a remote area of Tanzania and provided it with life enhancing and life saving programs. The imprint that Global Volunteers has made in the area will be felt for generations.
Ipalamwa and the surrounding communities previously had very few resources and now have a highly successful and impactful program that educates the villagers in areas ranging from nutrition to breast feeding to child rearing. Furthermore, where formerly there was no adequate medical facility for miles, there is now a fully functional medical clinic that provides clean, adequate services, including safe child birthing experiences, to an area that covers over 20,000 individuals.
Most important to the Foundation is the fact that Global Volunteers, unlike many non profit organizations that work in developing countries, has invested an incredible amount of time, energy and resources to establishing a permanent presence in the area. They are committed to the long term viability of its Tanzania programs and will support them in the best way they can well into the future. We are confident that our investment is being applied in the most beneficial way possible.”
Frank Thomas, President, Thomas Ohana Foundation
Global Volunteers is a human and economic development organization that leverages short-term volunteers and institutional partners to help parents and local community partners provide essential services to children and families.
We align our service programs with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to ensure comprehensive, measurable, sustainable, scalable, and replicable models. Local leaders direct work project outcomes and set agendas for our long-term partnerships. Individual and corporate funders complete this strategy through project-focused and multi-year grants centered around helping children reach their full potential.
Volunteers serve abroad alongside parents, caregivers, teachers, medical professionals, and local leaders to improve the cognitive and physical development of our world’s future leaders – its youth.
Investing in one, two or more projects to elevate students’ potential changes the arc of their lives. We match dollars with can-do. You provide the financial security and wherewithal, and our successive teams of volunteers, year after year, provide essential services by sharing their skills and expertise that often are not otherwise available in partnership with community leaders.
It’s a collaborative effort between volunteer, organizational and corporate partners to make lasting, appropriate impact.