Our Vision of Peace and Justice Guides Us

Our vision is simple: To wage peace and promote justice worldwide through mutual international understanding by nurturing genuine community development partnerships. Communities embody their cultural, social, and economic reality, and know their needs and priorities. They realize the barriers to, as well as the possibilities for, their advancement. This local wisdom guides their development projects and is central to Global Volunteers’ work. We recognize that the mere absence of war is not peace and peace without justice is no peace at all. As volunteers, we follow the lead of local people.  Our dedicated community partners ensure volunteers’ assistance is appropriate, meaningful, and measurable. We strive to help local people deliver essential services equitably throughout the community, in order to lift up the total community and achieve a safer, respectful and supportive society for everyone.

Our mantra is: “Local people are always in charge.” Genuine development mobilizes empowered people: both those seeking assistance, and those who seek to serve. And long-term relationships are central to our and our community partners success.

Read here in our prospectus how you can deliver essential services.

Our Unique Philosophy of Service Guides You

Global Volunteers’ unique philosophy of service ensures you’ll truly serve others, wage peace, and promote justice directly and appropriately:

• At the invitation of community partners
• Under the direction of local leaders
• On sustainable community-based projects
• Hand-and-hand with local people
• To the best of our individual abilities

Volunteers serve in four primary program areas:
1. Helping deliver the United Nations prescribed 12 Essential Services focusing on children – eradicating hunger, improving health, and enhancing cognition.

2. Teaching conversational English, the international language of opportunity, to children and adults in elementary through university classrooms, businesses, children’s homes, daycare centers, government offices, and English language “Summer Camps.”

3. Supporting community development through projects to advance self-determination, gender equality and social justice, and broadening local capacity by investing in local leadership of collective actions which are important to the community as a whole.

4. Supplementing school-based curricula, including one-on-one services to students to improve their competency in reading, numeracy, computer literacy, health and hygiene, geography, science and other classroom subjects to enhance a student-centered learning environment.

 

 Read here how our Philosophy of Service directs our programs.

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Global Volunteers is a U.S. based NGO in the central time zone (UTC -6). Because tax-deductibility, visa requirements, and language proficiencies vary, please choose the country you’re inquiring from to enable us to provide you the most appropriate information.



Thank you for your interest in a development partnership with Global Volunteers. We're unable to expand our programs at this time. As our website portrays, our current service programs center around providing the 12 Essential Services for our Reaching Children's Potential Program. But for future reference, please send any information to: partnershiprequest@globalvolunteers.org


As a private, non-profit organization independent from government and religious funding, Global Volunteers’ programs are financed almost entirely by volunteer contributions. This is important because our community partners cannot afford the “open market” costs of the services and materials we provide. Your tax-deductible service program contribution pays your expenses in the partner community. These include your food, lodging, work site transportation, program materials, team leadership, emergency evacuation insurance, and administrative costs. In addition, we provide supplemental financing to help meet our host’s many, on-going and special needs.


While English fluency does not disqualify you from participating on any of our programs, Global Volunteers is a U.S based NGO with your teammates, training materials and other communications being conduced primarily in English.

We’re unable to provide any assistance in obtaining your passport or visa. You'll need a passport to travel abroad and for some countries, you’ll need a visa.  Please keep this in mind when planning your travel schedule. If you live outside the U.S., you may have additional restrictions for participating on U.S. programs.

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Global Volunteers
375 East Little Canada Road
St. Paul, MN 55117-1628 USA
(800) 487-1074 | toll-free
(651) 482-0915 | fax
globalvolunteers.org
email@globalvolunteers.org
Federal EIN: 36-3352680

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