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An Inspiring Couple Volunteers 8 times Together!

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…were interesting places near the volunteer sites like Machu Picchu in Peru or the Galapagos offshore from Ecuador, we would visit them after our volunteer weeks were complete. Some highlights of our 8 volunteer projects include: Jim shows photos of his family in China In the Romanian orphanage, getting 18 month old Sari to jump up and down for the first time in her life. She had the biggest smile on her face. Talking personally with the women elementary school English teachers in China about women’s rights, how it is to vote for the President of the United States, and celebrating Christmas with them. It was December 25th. In Costa Rica, watching Spanish speaking Costa Rican children and English speaking American children play ball together, laughing, and enjoying each other. Language and culture presented no barriers. Global Volunteers has given… (Search hits: 6 in body, 0 in title, %category% in categories, 0 in tags, %taxonomy% in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 1359.34)

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Motivated Couple Volunteering Worldwide Reflects on Impact of Service

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Global Volunteers Bill and Barb Chase have served together in Ecuador, Tanzania, Montana, West Virginia, St. Lucia and Costa Rica since 2006. This couple volunteering worldwide exemplifies the opportunities to discover the world – and each other – together through service. Bill, a retired physician/surgeon, and Barb, a retired teacher, are loved and respected by their team leaders, teammates and the local people, both young and old. Bill writes: “All of my Global Volunteer projects have been “labor” projects in one way or another. In Tanzania, I worked with the local physician and then covered for him while he was away for a week. In West Virginia, I worked with “at risk” youth helping them winterize houses for poor individuals. In Montana, I worked with the grounds crew of the Blackfeet Community College. In Ecuador, I did maintenance work for… (Search hits: 6 in body, 0 in title, %category% in categories, 0 in tags, %taxonomy% in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 1359.34)

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Saluting Global Volunteers With a Strong Passion For Service in 2019 (Part 2)

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…nine other programs worldwide: Costa Rica, Poland, India, Vietnam, Ireland, Ghana, Greece, Nepal, and New Mexico in the USA. Lynn Adams served for the first time with Global Volunteers in July 2010 in Poland. Since then, every summer, Lynn has returned to Poland to teach. She has now completed ten programs in Poland. Kenita Gibbins chose a team to Poland in May 2003 as her first service program with Global Volunteers. To date, she has served on ten service programs worldwide: eight in Poland, and once in Cuba and St. Lucia. “If you want to touch the past, touch a rock.  If you want to touch the present, touch a flower. If you want to touch the future, touch a life.” ~ Author unknown Sonja Knudsen Bill Laubenstein Mary Mastin Michael Rodriguez Janet Rodriguez Dr. Mindy Lull Louise Mollick Joe Virgona… (Search hits: 5 in body, 0 in title, %category% in categories, 0 in tags, %taxonomy% in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 1076.3)

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Recommended Teaching Volunteer Abroad Programs

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“Once A Teacher, Always A Teacher.” Whether you’re an aspiring teacher, experienced teacher or retired teacher, you’ll always be a teacher. And volunteering with Global Volunteers may be the perfect opportunity for you to share and develop your teaching skills while gaining international volunteering experience in schools which don’t have reliable access to educational resources. Welcome to Global Volunteers’ teaching volunteer abroad programs! Global Volunteers offers volunteer opportunities for teachers to tutor students in basic classroom subjects including math, computer skills, geography, music, science, sports, agriculture, arts and crafts, reading and literacy. You can support these efforts in a range of destinations, including the Cook Islands, India, Montana, Peru, St. Lucia and Tanzania. In addition, we also offer the opportunity to teach conversational English in China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Romania and Vietnam. Hundreds of teachers and retired… (Search hits: 4 in body, 0 in title, %category% in categories, 0 in tags, %taxonomy% in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 906.23)

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International Service in High School Curricula

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…race or ethnicity, I learned how to problem-solve and provide care with minimal resources, how to communicate cross-culturally using non-verbal cues due to language barriers, and created lifelong bonds with the three other volunteers that the volunteer abroad program connected me with, all from diverse walks of life. Professionally, I better understood how medical care is provided in marginalized settings, realized the importance of building local capacity, and confirmed my interest in global health, a realization that has shaped my life ever since. It’s safe for me to say that the monetary investment that I made in that two-week trip resulted in many returns for me, and that volunteering abroad has been one of the best decisions that I have made in my life. Nilusha doing outreach activities in Costa Rica Integrating International Service in High School Curricula High school volunteering abroad creates a stronger vision for… (Search hits: 4 in body, 0 in title, %category% in categories, 0 in tags, %taxonomy% in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 906.23)

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Global Volunteers Alumni Jim and Carla La Rochelle Recognized for Service

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Global Volunteers salutes Jim and Carla La Rochelle for their exceptional service as Global Volunteers since 2005. Jim has served on 8 service programs in Cuba, St. Lucia, Montana, Costa Rica, Poland and Mexico and Carla, his wife, has joined him on 6 of these. Jim and Carla, who are both retired teachers, have participated on a wide variety of work projects from tutoring conversational English to local students to painting and light labor projects. Jim and Carla jump right in and lend a hand wherever their help and skills are needed! Jim tutors Polish high school students in conversational English. Jim writes: “I’ve enjoyed projects that involved labor projects or tutoring high school and university students in conversational English. Having been a middle school counselor and teacher during my 35 year career, I felt these programs were easily within… (Search hits: 4 in body, 0 in title, %category% in categories, 0 in tags, %taxonomy% in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 906.23)

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Transgender Woman Shares Advice for Service Travel

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…to learn new experiences and cultures, and to promote visibility for my TGD community. While I prefer labor-type work such as gardening and landscaping, I’ve had a good experience practicing English with college students and other adults in Cuba. This year, I will be going back to Cuba – this time to the town of Ciego de Avila – and expect to participate in gardening work and English conversation with the local people. I will also be joining the new program in Puerto Rico – again doing light labor, providing psycho-social support and possibly helping with grant writing. Linda with students in Costa Rica. Other of many “best moments” on my trips include: In Costa Rica, I was asked to present a class on Transgender 101 to a group of 12th graders as well as my fellow volunteers. With only… (Search hits: 4 in body, 0 in title, %category% in categories, 0 in tags, %taxonomy% in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 906.23)

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High School Volunteering Expands Students’ Education and Worldview

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…make an impact while traveling. These efforts have taken me on short-term trips to volunteer in Costa Rica and Nicaragua, study in Argentina and South Korea, and recently to work for one year in Uganda. My passion for global health and international development was initiated by those two weeks in Ghana, which shaped my worldview and my life’s purpose to become a physician in global health. With my own personal experience, I am a wholehearted believer of the endless benefits of global exposure for young students, with the belief that the earlier the exposure, the better. This is why I believe high school volunteering is pivotal in students’ education. For those two weeks, I was immersed in and gained an appreciation for another culture, learned about international service and global health, made long-lasting connections that would accelerate my career later in life, and learned a wealth of… (Search hits: 4 in body, 0 in title, %category% in categories, 0 in tags, %taxonomy% in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 906.23)

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Donald and Mickey Marshall: Dedicated Global Volunteers Couple

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Global Volunteers salutes Donald (Don) and Mickey Marshall for their loyalty, dedication, and service. Since 2006, Don has volunteered on 10 Global Volunteers service programs, and together, he and Mickey have served on 9 of them in the Cook Islands, Peru, Tanzania, Costa Rica, China and St. Lucia. Don teaching young students English in Kunming, China. Don writes, As a retired chemistry professor who enjoyed teaching chemistry, it was quite natural to select teaching with the Global Volunteers. Teaching is a great way to learn in depth about the people and the culture of the host country. I have visited many countries and working with Global Volunteers is by far the best way to learn about the country. My best labor project was working at a women’s co-op in the cloud forest region of Costa Rica. The co-op was a… (Search hits: 4 in body, 0 in title, %category% in categories, 0 in tags, %taxonomy% in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 906.23)

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13 Volunteer Nursing Students Serve on 1st RCP Program in Peru

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Nursing students from the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University in Minnesota contributed immensely to Global Volunteers’ First Reaching Children’s Potential (RCP) Program in Peru. The Peru RCP Program, a replica of Global Volunteers’ Tanzania RCP Program, officially launched in the summer of 2022. Global Volunteers’ staff and community leaders laid the groundwork for volunteers to be engaged in the program beginning that fall. In November 2022, thirteen nursing students eagerly and effectively put their skills and knowledge to use, alongside their professor, in Ventanilla, north of Lima. During their two-week service-learning program, the student volunteers worked with and learned from and about the local people, and absorbed the public health reality of Ventanilla. Read on for details about this student group’s remarkable experience and the first RCP team to serve in South America. Inspiring Students to Provide… (Search hits: 4 in body, 0 in title, %category% in categories, 0 in tags, %taxonomy% in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 509.6)

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