How do we measure impact? Through the stories people tell us. Through time spent in community. Through projects supported on site. Through overall efforts.

What happens when you share your time and your money?

Make a Positive Impact.

You can make a positive impact by contributing both your time and your funds for the greatest benefit of local people. But not all volunteering programs are created equal. The most important question you can ask when seeking the most ethical volunteer opportunity is: How are my time and my financial contributions in the community leveraged? When you contribute your energy and knowledge on a Global Volunteers team, you become one of the community’s greatest assets. When you give money to support the work, you become a part of a long-term effort to support local people. But most important, your contributions of all kinds become part of the community’s story – directly contributing to sustained projects that define their future. Simply stated, you’re a most valuable link in an endlessly renewable chain of volunteers focused on creating, nurturing and sustaining the well-being and human potential of children worldwide.

Are you up for this kind of impact?

Our impact is measured by the outcomes of long-term development partnerships. This means we share a common vision with local leaders, families, teachers, students and medical caregivers in every host community.

We strive to:

• Engage in genuine, comprehensive development projects.
• Work under the direction and at the invitation of local leaders.
• Provide essential services, hand-in-hand with local people.

Global Volunteers Impact – 36 Years in Service.

countries served

207

community partners

36,177

volunteers

2,684,252

hours of service

Your Contributions Make an Impact!

Improving Health and Happiness in Peru

Paula is a 13-year-old young woman living at Sagrada Familia, a Global Volunteers’ community partner, in Ventanilla, one of Peru’s poorest urban communities near the capital city of Lima. During the summer months (December through February), Sagrada…

Changing Lives in Greece - Impact in Action

Mihali is a seven-year-old boy living in Malevizi on the island of Crete. Global Volunteers supports summer camps each year in Malevizi, from June through August, to help improve students’ conversational English. Volunteers first met…

Impact Stories, Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

Young Mother Finds Hope and Health in Tanzania Program - Impact in Action

Meet Rebecca, a young mother enrolled in Global Volunteers’ Reaching Children’s Potential demonstration program (RCP) in Ipalamwa, Tanzania. In the fall of 2017, 28-year-old Rebecca was excited to enter the program when she became pregnant…

Conversational English, Development Impact, Impact Stories China

Chinese Teachers Talk About Volunteer Impact

In the summer, Kunming University runs a 2- to 3- week "staff development" English program for an intact group of Chinese English teachers from elementary, middle and high schools in the area. Global Volunteers is invited to assist every…

Invest in Sustainable Change.

Global Volunteers enables you to help catalyze local self-reliance by:

• Protecting the partner community’s independence and autonomy.
• Honoring local people’s wisdom and self-determination.
• Employing experts in economic and human development.
• Guarding against exploitation of local children, women and men.
• Rigorously monitoring our cultural impact.
• Earning the respect of others in the field.

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“Global Volunteers always does a good job preparing their people before they go out, so that they are well-organized and well-focused when they are out in the field. They are definitely an organization that we look up to.”

David MinichDirector of Habitat for Humanity’s Global Village work camp program

“Global Volunteers was one of about a dozen NGOs I researched. We chose Global Volunteers because they supplied excellent information, and we liked the fact that all projects are in partnership with local people.”

Judi LeesSt. Lucia, Peru and India Volunteer

“I volunteered in Russia, Indonesia, Tanzania and Mississippi with Global Volunteers. They were life-changing experiences. It’s a great organization that does a ‘world’ of good.”

Donald SmithAlumni Volunteer

“Worth all of my 20 years of service programs – which changed my life forever. Thank you, Global Volunteers!!”

Kathleen Hubbard-IsmailAlumni Volunteer

How do we measure impact? Through the stories people tell us. Through time spent in community. Through projects supported on site. Through overall efforts. What happens when you share your time and your money?

Make a Positive Impact.

Global Volunteers Impact – 36 Years in Service.

Your Contributions Make an Impact!

Invest in Sustainable Change.

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How do we measure impact? Through the stories people tell us. Through time spent in community. Through projects supported on site. Through overall efforts.

What happens when you share your time and your money?