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Dates and Contribution

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Registration and all program costs are tax-deductible for U.S. taxpayers. Groups of 10 or more participants interested in dates not shown below should inquire with our Partnerships Department about adding exclusive dates to the schedule. Please email any inquiries to groups@globalvolunteers.org. USA service programs are one week. Standard international service programs are two weeks, with a one-week option. China, Cook Islands, Poland, and Tanzania are scheduled for three weeks with one-, and two-week options. You may add one, two or more weeks to a standard Global Volunteers service program itinerary in many countries throughout the year for an additional fee of $400 – $750, depending upon the program. Click here to see available extended-service periods. Note: Most international service programs require departure from North America or Europe one or two days before the program start date. Payments If you are… (Search hits: 12 in body, 0 in title, %category% in categories, 0 in tags, %taxonomy% in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 13202.79)

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Family Volunteering Abroad and in The USA

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…the Global Volunteer staff was attentive to our needs and made a conscious effort to assure that we understood the intricacies of volunteering as a family.” “My experiences with Vanessa, Ben, and Alex in Costa Rica, Poland, Greece, China, Brazil, and Africa have been life-defining. I have been taught first-hand the power and selflessness of human compassion, and that the political, cultural, or religious variants in life are secondary to human solidarity and well-being.” Family volunteering opportunities are described on our blog: Video: Volunteering Abroad as a Family News Story: Grandma/Grandson Duo in Cuba Magazine Story: Family Service Vacations Magazine: The Feldstein Family in the Cook Islands News Story: The Ford Family in Tanzania The Huff Family – Volunteer Programs Worldwide Volunteering as a Family in Kunming, China Volunteer as a Family in Tanzania – The Kleisslers Page 1 Please… (Search hits: 6 in body, 0 in title, %category% in categories, 0 in tags, %taxonomy% in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 9995.95)

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Butterfly Garden Project in Costa Rica

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…both flora and fauna found in a given area. For example, Costa Rica is home to 205 known mammal species while the U.S. is home to 428, but the United States is almost 193 times larger than Costa Rica! That is a lot of species in a small place! No wonder Costa Ricans care about conservation and sustainability. Twenty-five percent of all of Costa Rica’s land is protected areas. Costa Rica is home to over 1, 200 species of butterflies! The butterfly garden helps preserve this important resource. The most famous butterfly in Costa Rica is the Blue Morpho, with a wingspan of up to 15 cm and bright neon-blue iridescent wings. Related to all of this wonderful biodiversity is a special project volunteers will be working on in Santa Elena, Costa Rica from March 4 – 18, 2017. Our… (Search hits: 31 in body, 2 in title, %category% in categories, 0 in tags, %taxonomy% in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 7332.06)

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Saluting Global Volunteers With a Strong Passion for Service in 2019

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…another 19 times internationally: Cook Islands 8, St. Lucia 2, Costa Rica 1, Ireland 1, Austria 1, Mexico 1, Greece 1, Tanzania 1, India 1, Vietnam 1, Portugal 1, Cuba 1. LuRue Troyer’s first service program with Global Volunteers was in China in April of 1997. In total, LuRue has now served on 20 service programs worldwide: China 3, India 3, Cook Islands 2, Vietnam 2, Costa Rica 1, Cuba 1, Poland 1, Ireland 1, Tanzania 1, Nepal 1, the USA- Arizona 1, South Dakota 2, Minnesota 1. Sue Surma first served with Global Volunteers in Guatemala in March of 1989. Sue has since served as a team member or Volunteer Team Leader on a total of 27 service programs across the globe: Cuba 4, India 3, Costa Rica 3, Ireland 2, Cook Islands 1, Vietnam 1, Guatemala 1, Ecuador… (Search hits: 27 in body, 0 in title, %category% in categories, 0 in tags, %taxonomy% in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 5851.78)

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Registration

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Saluting Global Volunteers With a Strong Passion For Service in FY2020

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…Global Volunteers: Three in Poland and one each in India and Peru. Jane Durkee served on her sixth Global Volunteers program in November 2019 in Nepal. Before that, she volunteered in Ghana, South Africa, Peru, Vietnam, and the Cook Islands. Judy and Peter Jonas first served with Global Volunteers in Costa Rica in 2006. To date, they have served together on eight service programs across the globe: Twice in St. Lucia and once in Costa Rica, Peru, Mexico, Cuba, Portugal, and New Mexico. Mel Katzmann completed her seventh service program with Global Volunteers in November 2019 in Nepal. She has previously served twice in Cuba and Vietnam, and once in Ireland and Montana. Diane Lindy Dorothy Mason Tom McMahon Rene Moquin Marianne Poblenz Linda Roberts Shirley Sauvageau Bluma Schechter Diane Lindy’s first adventure in service was in Montana in 2013…. (Search hits: 21 in body, 0 in title, %category% in categories, 0 in tags, %taxonomy% in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 4602.29)

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Saluting Global Volunteers With a Strong Passion For Service in 2019 (Part 3)

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…Global Volunteers in March 2019 in Cuba. Before that, Jane volunteered in St. Lucia, Italy, India, and Vietnam. Kurt Jaeger has taken part in five service programs with Global Volunteers. His first was in West Virginia in 2005; he has also served in Costa Rica twice and Cuba and Peru each once. Sharon Knutson enjoys serving in our Latin American host communities. She first served with Global Volunteers in Mexico in 1997. Since then, Sharon volunteered two more times in Mexico and once each in Ecuador and Peru. Tom Kromroy’s first service program with Global Volunteers was in Costa Rica in 2006. To date, Tom has served five times with Global Volunteers, in Costa Rica, Cook Islands, India, St. Lucia, and West Virginia. “If you have the courage to connect with people from different races, nationalities, backgrounds, cultures, and regions,… (Search hits: 14 in body, 0 in title, %category% in categories, 0 in tags, %taxonomy% in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 3182.72)

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What’s your state’s most popular volunteer location? (infographic)

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…Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio – join other Midwestern volunteers in China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Montana (MT), Poland, Romania and Tanzania. Volunteer at a community pottery cooperative in Cuba Southwest: If you’re from the Southwest U.S. – New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, and Oklahoma – your neighbors prefer serving in Costa Rica, Poland, Romania, and West Virginia (WV). Southeast: Those living in the Southeast – Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, or Florida – most often choose Costa Rica, Greece, Italy, Montana (MT), Poland, Romania, and Tanzania for their volunteer vacations. Serve and experience life on an American Indian reservation alongside Glacier National Park in Montana Northeast: Northeasterners  – in Maryland, Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania, Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Jersey – largely volunteer in Costa Rica, Italy, Montana (MT), Poland, Tanzania, and… (Search hits: 10 in body, 0 in title, %category% in categories, 0 in tags, %taxonomy% in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 2273.37)

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Costa Rica Service Program is a “Full-Body Sensory Experience”

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By Jan, Costa Rica Global Volunteer. Quote of the Day: If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. -Confucius Reflections on our two weeks at Colegio Tecnico Profesional de Santa Elena, Costa Rica: Thinking about our last day as well as the two weeks at Colegio and Santa Elena, so many impressions cross my mind, that I found they can best be expressed using several generalizations: what I remember seeing, hearing, smelling, and feeling. Seeing Lush, thick, green vegetation in dense forests Pink clouds and rainbows in the cloud mist that rolls across the hills Nicoya Gulf in the distance Flora: heliconias, orchids, bromeliads, palm trees, strangler figs, ferns Fauna: birds asleep on trees at night, leaf cutter ants in… (Search hits: 8 in body, 2 in title, %category% in categories, 0 in tags, %taxonomy% in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 2046.03)

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The Ripple Effect: Alumna’s “Model of Giving” Inspires Others to Serve

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…to enhance their lives.”   Crissey was surprised by the conditions at her work sites. “I expected I’d be in areas of obvious and abject poverty, similar to what I had experienced in Costa Rica and Peru. Instead I saw crowded roadways with recent-model cars, well-kept homes, and well-stocked grocery, pharmacy, and convenience stores.” She’s aware of plans to widen the scope of Global Volunteers’ reach in the region – where volunteers will work one-on-one with children and families in impoverished areas. To better understand the struggles of “average people,” Crissey and her teammates participated in discussions with their Puerto Rican team leader, Yanira (Yani) Ocasio and her husband Luis. “We learned about the country’s poverty and sub-par living conditions in our orientation session,” she offered. “For instance, the 40 percent unemployment rate and $15K average annual income were statistics which were… (Search hits: 6 in body, 0 in title, %category% in categories, 0 in tags, %taxonomy% in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 1364.02)

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