Students in virtually every academic discipline can make a positive difference as they work with and learn from and about local people and the world we all share. University groups apply their academic training to community development projects, at the invitation and under the direction of local leaders, that help parents and organizations deliver essential services and improve the lives and well-being of children. Students and their faculty advisors:
- work with local healthcare professionals
- provide health interventions
- demonstrate hygiene and disease prevention practices
- nurture vulnerable babies and toddlers
- conduct parent workshops
- accompany staff on home visits
- provide mental wellness understanding
- teach conversational English
- tutor math and science
- model effective classroom strategies
- offer nutrition education
- work in the greenhouse
- plant container gardens
- construct chicken coops
- build fuel-efficient, vented stoves, and
- paint and repair community facilities
all while contributing to positive sustainable change. Community project leaders draw on every undergraduate and graduate students’ knowledge, passion, and experience to advance community development goals.
We’re serious about service- learning! Read more: Nursing Students Take on a Journey of a Lifetime in Tanzania
We’ll certify volunteer service hours so your students can meet study abroad, service-learning or class requirements.
During the past 40 years, Global Volunteers has helped employers:
- fulfill corporate social responsibility goals
- conduct effective team-building practices
- improve employee morale and retention
- learn about international markets
- enable employees to engage with their cultural heritage
Most employees want to work for the “good guys.” Global Volunteers’ corporate and employee volunteering programs facilitate employees from around the globe, or in the next cubicle, to meet each other at a higher level, participate in effective team-building activities, and learn about their own or another culture. Our service programs enable board members, executives, managers, line-workers, and their family members to discover together their capabilities outside their offices and, if desired, outside their comfort zones. Equally important, your employees provide meaningful service to local people while they learn personally about the limitations, opportunities, and realities of rural villages, emergent democracies, and struggling U.S. communities.
At the invitation of local leaders, employees apply their professional skills, knowledge, and experience on important community development projects:
- teach business practices
- provide health interventions
- conduct parent workshops
- accompany staff on home visits
- provide mental wellness understanding
- plant container gardens and construct chicken coops
- teach conversational English
- tutor math and science
- offer nutrition education
- build fuel-efficient, vented stoves; and
- paint and repair community facilities,
while engaging in team-building and sharing their passion for service. Many employers have discovered the significant value of offering service opportunities to employees.
Together, we’ve laid the foundation for long-lasting positive change aided by companies’ annual service impacts.
Employee Volunteer Time Off (VTO) is cited as a valued benefit stimulating meaningful community engagement and employee job satisfaction.
High school service-learning programs help prepare students for a lifetime of meaningful engagement. Students can read to pre-schoolers, tutor math or science, help paint a classroom, or play with babies. Global Volunteers also engages High school groups in our SAT – “Students as Teachers” – program, where they learn what it might be like to be a teacher by teaching conversational English to younger students who need to improve their language skills. Help with pronunciation, idioms, and syntax through conversations, games, songs, skits, and formal lessons. Our Conversational English Teaching Guide is filled with lesson plans and exercises – so students can “teach like a pro.”
After teaching in a classroom for a week or two, many students conclude that they want to become a professional teacher and experience the joy of educating the next generation. Given the tremendous shortage of teachers, that is an extremely positive result .
What’s more, we expertly integrate educational and cultural learning activities into your student volunteer program to optimize “real-life” service-learning.
Broaden teens’ perspective of the world through genuine development projects balanced with cultural activities matched to your curricula.
Most faiths encourage caring for our neighbors, especially the poor and disadvantaged. Sometimes our neighbors live across the street; other times they live on the other side of the planet. Global Volunteers enables faith-based organizations to work with and learn from and about local people in developing communities in the US and around the world.
Volunteering can be an embodied declaration of one’s beliefs and faith tradition, and an expression of commitment to and hope for humanity. If you’re seeking a meaningful experience that promotes the joy of serving others without expecting anything in return, makes a significant contribution to humanity, and encounters the breadth of human resilience, we can provide your faith-based group with a refreshed global perspective.
Your members are needed to:
- nurture vulnerable babies and toddlers
- conduct parent workshops
- accompany staff on home visits
- provide mental wellness understanding
- work with local healthcare professionals
- provide health interventions
- demonstrate hygiene and disease prevention practices
- teach conversational English
- tutor math and science
- offer nutrition education
- work in the greenhouse
- plant container gardens
- construct chicken coops
- build fuel-efficient, vented stoves, and
- paint and repair community facilities.
We take care of all the logistical details – meals, lodging, in country ground transportation, and all community work projects – and tailor our approach and recommendations based on your group’s dynamic.
Put faith into action internationally or in the US by serving people living in poverty. One, two and three-week options are available for groups of all sizes.
Group volunteering for civic or professional associations is ideal for cultivating a meaningful cause together. If you’re interested in showing the world what you can achieve with dedicated teamwork, and get to know each other in a completely new way, you can return with a new perspective and a renewed inner strength. Further, you can apply your hard-earned skills with mothers and children in communities that need and want your expertise. Inside classrooms, daycare centers, clinics, libraries, and offices, volunteer groups gain a rare, “insider” perspective of their roles in helping developing communities thrive. Read one retired physician’s experience in Peru.
Professionals in all areas can apply their skills in meaningful new ways and broaden their knowledge of their profession on outcome-based community service projects.
