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Projects for Professionals, Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

Early Childhood Leader Lends Skills as Global Volunteer

Since 1977, ZERO TO THREE has helped protect and strengthen babies’ brains through formative family and community connections critical to babies’ and toddlers’ well-being and development. Lynette Aytch, Director of Leadership Development at ZERO TO THREE, shares how her experience with Global Volunteers in Tanzania significantly expanded her understanding, knowledge, and skills in serving infants, […]

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March 20, 2020/by Millie Pinakoulaki
https://globalvolunteers.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/TAN1904A1-Lynette-Aytch-socializing-with-the-kids-at-the-workshop-e1579261637121.jpg 660 1500 Millie Pinakoulaki https://globalvolunteers.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/2014-GlobalVolunteersLogo-Web.png Millie Pinakoulaki2020-03-20 09:46:002022-06-03 12:42:24Early Childhood Leader Lends Skills as Global Volunteer
Volunteer Voices

Volunteers Discover Valentines Around The World

The spirit of Valentines Day is evident to Global Volunteers all year around – all around the world. These reports – in the words of our team members – tell of the human sentiments that can’t be captured on a greeting card. The Language of Love Mark Bierbaum calls his service in Peru “a joyful […]

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February 14, 2020/by Michele Gran
https://globalvolunteers.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/TAN1904A1-Lynette-Aytch-socializing-with-the-kids-at-the-workshop-e1579261637121.jpg 660 1500 Michele Gran https://globalvolunteers.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/2014-GlobalVolunteersLogo-Web.png Michele Gran2020-02-14 19:16:132020-02-14 19:16:19Volunteers Discover Valentines Around The World
Development Impact, News and Updates

2019 Retrospective: Projects Worldwide Advance Support for Children and Families

volunteer teaching in nepal2019

Throughout 2019, volunteers provided greatly needed services to families in all corners of the globe, aided by Global Volunteers donors, institutional collaborators and corporate supporters. Following are highlights from a landmark year of volunteer-assisted development. Labor Projects in South America In March, an exclusive team of Medtronic employees committed a week to upgrading FUNDAC’s second […]

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January 8, 2020/by Michele Gran
https://globalvolunteers.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/DSC_0148.jpg 994 1500 Michele Gran https://globalvolunteers.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/2014-GlobalVolunteersLogo-Web.png Michele Gran2020-01-08 08:47:172024-02-12 09:21:252019 Retrospective: Projects Worldwide Advance Support for Children and Families
Development Impact, Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

EarthBox® Partnership Nourishes Mothers and Children in Tanzania

The arrival of 1,000 eagerly anticipated EarthBox container gardening systems from the United States marks the beginning of sustained nutrition for families in the Tanzania Reaching Children’s Potential Demonstration Program. Thanks to a formative partnership between Global Volunteers and EarthBox, more than 225 families in the Ukwega Ward will soon learn how to grow the […]

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November 8, 2019/by Michele Gran
https://globalvolunteers.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/earthbox-with-hand.jpg 994 1500 Michele Gran https://globalvolunteers.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/2014-GlobalVolunteersLogo-Web.png Michele Gran2019-11-08 18:01:002024-02-12 04:11:24EarthBox® Partnership Nourishes Mothers and Children in Tanzania
Group Volunteering, Service-Learning Tanzania

Nursing Students Take on an Adventure In Service and Learning

college students served in Tanzania with their professors for hands-on work experience in healthcare.

The nine senior nursing students from St. John Fisher College arrived in Ipalamwa, Tanzania with a clear assignment: To leverage their clinical capstone project to assess the heath of RCP mothers and children, and support caregivers on home visits. By combining their emergent skills with a desire to serve, they had the opportunity to help […]

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June 28, 2019/by Millie Pinakoulaki
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Development Impact Peru

Motherless Children Teach this Volunteer a Lesson in Love

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Jack Bryan, Global Volunteers Digital Media Coordinator, said he learned a lesson on “mothering” in Peru he couldn’t have learned anywhere else. Read his compelling story here: “All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” Abraham Lincoln A growing body of scientific evidence reveals the extent that a mother’s […]

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May 9, 2019/by Global Volunteers
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Development Impact

“This is What Hope Looks Like on the Reservation.”

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The Rosebud reservation in South Dakota is one of poorest communities in the U.S. Our community partners in the reservation share their perspectives on the reality and needs of the community as well as ways to overcome these challenges. This is the story of their work to support the people of the Rosebud reservation and […]

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May 5, 2019/by Michele Gran
https://globalvolunteers.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/firewood.jpeg 2454 5843 Michele Gran https://globalvolunteers.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/2014-GlobalVolunteersLogo-Web.png Michele Gran2019-05-05 12:00:022020-06-11 15:46:37“This is What Hope Looks Like on the Reservation.”
Service-Learning, Volunteer Voices Peru

Retired Long Distance Friends Unite as Volunteers in Peru

caring for children in Peru

Forty years ago, Laura Tomlinson and Kim Berge worked together in Colorado Springs.  They parted ways soon after college to pursue their careers – Kim attended a Physician Assistant program in CT and Laura pursued a graduate degree in Education in CA. They never lived in the same town again. Each got married, raised their own families, established […]

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March 14, 2019/by Millie Pinakoulaki
https://globalvolunteers.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/PER1810A1-5th-grade-class-at-Sagrada-Familia-saying-bye-to-Kim-and-Laura-3.jpg 844 1500 Millie Pinakoulaki https://globalvolunteers.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/2014-GlobalVolunteersLogo-Web.png Millie Pinakoulaki2019-03-14 10:32:562021-11-25 22:05:44Retired Long Distance Friends Unite as Volunteers in Peru
Development Impact, Reaching Children's Potential

The Global Role of Women – Caregivers, Conscience, Farmers, Educators and Entrepreneurs

Role of women Africa

Throughout history, the central role of women in society has ensured the stability, progress and long-term development of nations. Globally, women comprise 43 percent of the world’s agricultural labor force – rising to 70 percent in some countries. For instance, across Africa, 80 percent of the agricultural production comes from small farmers, most of whom are rural […]

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March 8, 2019/by Michele Gran
https://globalvolunteers.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Role-of-Women-in-Tanzania.jpg 397 1030 Michele Gran https://globalvolunteers.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/2014-GlobalVolunteersLogo-Web.png Michele Gran2019-03-08 03:30:102023-02-16 18:59:09The Global Role of Women – Caregivers, Conscience, Farmers, Educators and Entrepreneurs
Volunteer Voices

Compassion, Curiosity and Conviction Motivate Women of all Ages to Volunteer Internationally

Maddy

“Marvelous Maddy,” (above) is a student volunteer who raised over $6,000 worth of dental supplies for the RCP  (Reaching Children’s Potential) Clinic in Ipalamwa, Tanzania.“Seeing the children’s faces light up as they held on tightly to their new dental tools was so heartwarming.  At that moment, I was so proud of our fundraising efforts and […]

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March 5, 2019/by Michele Gran
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