Global Volunteers has been working in Romania since 1999. With the help of more than two thousand dedicated volunteers, we brought love, nurturing, and assistance to many disabled children, and taught thousands of students conversational English. Unfortunately, because of ever decreasing numbers of volunteers (from a high of 175 ten years ago to 10 volunteers this year) our community partners have concluded that the services rendered by volunteers are no longer sufficiently helpful to them. In addition, due to the decrease in the number of service programs, Mihaela and Dan, our country managers, had to take on other full-time jobs which has impacted their team-management availability.

We are very pleased that our community partners in Barlad are providing quality services to their children, and that other efforts, including some initiated by Global Volunteers’ alumni, will continue to help the children there. Meanwhile, you can serve children in daycare centers and children’s homes in Ecuador or St. Lucia. Please provide your contact information to be informed of potential options there.

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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.

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Global Volunteers
375 East Little Canada Road
St. Paul, MN 55117-1628 USA
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