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Volunteer Voices

Active Alumni Lean on Lessons from Communities Abroad

Tim Cunniff and Keith Kresge are Global Volunteers “veterans.” Between them, they’ve served on 44 programs in 18 different countries – from Tanzania to the Cook Islands.  Despite the obvious contrasts between these societies, they say one truth is common to all: People are more alike than different on a basic-needs level.  But, how people […]

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July 21, 2020/by Michele Gran
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Group Volunteering, Volunteer Voices Ecuador

Medtronic Women’s Volunteer Group Transforms Children’s Center in Ecuador

Seventeen determined Medtronic employees joined a March team in Quito, Ecuador for a week of service and bonding. Pouring their hearts, skills, and strength into their assignments, the women helped paint the exterior of the two-story early childhood development center, tiled the dining room, and cared for the 80 children alongside the center’s teachers. The […]

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April 12, 2019/by Maggie Bjorklund
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Volunteer Voices Montana

Volunteers Working Hand-in-Hand on the Blackfeet Reservation

Global Volunteers Blackfeet Reservation

Every Global Volunteer team keeps a daily journal of work projects, insights, and lessons to document their own experience in the partner community.  In these team journal excerpts, volunteers describe the hand-in-hand effort to make a difference alongside local people on the Blackfeet Reservation of Montana.   Monday, September 3:  We Spread Out on Community […]

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September 9, 2018/by Michele Gran
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Volunteer Voices South Dakota

Learning About Lakota Culture as a Global Volunteer

Lakota culture on Rosebud reservation

Rosebud Reservation volunteers share their team journal about Lakota culture on a South Dakota service program. Day Two in Rosebud – Yard  Work After yesterday’s orientation, we arose today in anticipation of the work assignment. We headed out and gathered any tools we could find for the day ahead. We worked outside of a home […]

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March 21, 2018/by Global Volunteers
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Volunteer Voices

Working With Our Hands is Spiritual Work, Says First-Time Global Volunteer

Global Volunteers of all ages and from all walks of life have worked on meaningful labor projects around the world – helping rehabilitate dilapidated homes, classrooms and other community buildings. One first-time Global Volunteer recalls her joyful team experience helping to restore former coal company homes – despite her inexperience with construction.   Journal from […]

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September 13, 2017/by Global Volunteers
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Volunteer Voices Montana

Montana Volunteer: “A Decision I’ll Never Regret and a Journey I’ll Never Forget.”

Montana Volunteer with Global Volunteers

As a Montana volunteer, you serve and experience life on an American Indian reservation – the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Jimmy describes the projects he worked on as well as reflects on the journey he took while making the decision on whether or not to serve. With meaningful friendships and breathtaking views, it’s easy to see […]

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September 6, 2017/by Global Volunteers
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Volunteer Voices Peru

Helping with Labor Projects

Helping with labor projects

Yvonne has served 10 times with Global Volunteers and is currently serving in Peru. As a retired nurse, one might think that she is the one in charge of looking after people in every community she serves at. But that is not the case. She works on labor projects; she always works on labor projects. As […]

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October 17, 2016/by Global Volunteers
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Development Impact

Ethical Volunteer Vacations: Choose Wisely to Ensure You Help, Not Hurt

ethical volunteer vacations

Ethical volunteer vacations combine purposeful service with cultural travel – to the ultimate benefit of local children and families. Global Volunteers meets 10 of 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in structuring programs respecting and assisting local people who invite our volunteers into their communities. Our philosophy of service requires serving where we’ve been invited, working […]

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October 6, 2016/by Michele Gran
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Development Impact, Reaching Children's Potential Ecuador

Helping Children in Ecuador – Playing, Teaching, Feeding & Hammering

Ecuador Country Manager Maggie Bjorklund describes opportunities to help children in Ecuador with Global Volunteers. In the gorgeous Andes Mountains of Ecuador, South America, Global Volunteers partners with the Foundation of Ladies of Calderón, a non-profit organization that runs two daycare centers on the margin of the city of Quito for disadvantaged families in the […]

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September 25, 2016/by Maggie Bjorklund
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Development Impact

Butterfly Garden Project in Costa Rica

A unique butterfly garden highlights our work in Costa Rica!  You’re needed to help plant native species that attract butterflies, build walkways, lay gravel, and landscape the garden. Costa Rica’s Astounding Biodiversity While Costa Rica covers a mere 0.03% of the Earth’s land surface, it contains nearly 5% of all of the species of flora […]

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August 23, 2016/by Maggie Bjorklund
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