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Service-Learning

Best Student Service-Learning Volunteer Abroad Projects with Global Volunteers

Have you felt the world is waiting for you to explore? Personal experience gives you a depth of knowledge that isn’t accessible in other ways. What’s more, Global Volunteers offers the “added value” of travel with meaning. Imagine spending a week during your spring break, J-term, or summer vacation as an international volunteer – experiencing […]

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December 28, 2021/by Global Volunteers
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Volunteer Voices Greece

Student’s Service in Greece Launches Teaching Career Back Home

Cassidy with her students in Greece.

When Cassidy Matz arrived as a volunteer in Crete in 2019, she was an early childhood education student, and anticipated teaching preschool after graduation. But, she admitted her focus was lacking. After teaching teens English for two weeks, she gained a profound sense of purpose and her career vision became clear. She changed her major, […]

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November 10, 2021/by Sam Pinakoulaki
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Service-Learning, Why I Give Tanzania

Why I Give: Student Alumnus Sustains Tanzania Dental Support From Home

A mention of  Global Volunteers on our partner’s website moved Maddy Aungst, an aspiring dental student, and her dentist father to help meet the needs of families and children in the Reaching Children’s Potential (RCP) Demonstration Project in Ipalamwa, Tanzania. After appealing to family, friends, and their faith community for material support, the father and […]

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February 5, 2021/by Global Volunteers
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Volunteer Voices

The Impact Of Service Renews Student Volunteer’s Career Direction

Delia,like all children, having fun

 Allyson Olson said her service program in Romania made such an impact on her that she inevitably decided to complete her Master’s Degree in Child Development/Child life. It was the opportunity to truly make a difference, she said, that clarified her career choices. “It was time for me to stop being a bystander in my […]

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March 6, 2019/by Sam Pinakoulaki
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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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Volunteer Voices Cook Islands

Teen Cites Three Reasons to Volunteer as a Youth

volunteer in youth

The benefits of volunteering are endless across the spectrum of life. Service to others helps us understand the world and ourselves, connect with people, impact events and make a difference. During her gap year, 18 – year – old Cassidy Richardson learned all these lessons and more in the Cook Islands with Global Volunteers.  She […]

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February 22, 2019/by Millie Pinakoulaki
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Service-Learning, Volunteer Voices Cook Islands

Reflections of a Youth Volunteer in the Cook Islands

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Throughout her childhood, Cassidy Richardson was interested in learning about different cultures and languages.  The more she learned, the more she felt drawn to help others while putting her growing understanding to work.  When Cassidy turned 18, she decided to get out of the comfort of her home and volunteer in the Cook Islands. In […]

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December 3, 2018/by Millie Pinakoulaki
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Family Volunteering, Volunteer Voices Greece

Three Generations Volunteer in Crete!

Appleby family Volunteers in Crete

The inter-generational Appleby family group – grand-daughter Megan, father Mike, and grandfather Robert – joined together to volunteer in Crete with Global Volunteers. Their assignment?  Helping elementary and middle school kids speak conversational English.  Although Global Volunteer Alumni Robert taught conversational English to High School kids and adults on previous programs, he said enjoyed working […]

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September 13, 2018/by Sam Pinakoulaki
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Volunteer Voices Greece

Volunteer Teacher Recalls her Greek Classroom Adventure

Having fun learning English in Greece

You can become part of a team of volunteer teachers and students in Crete. When you help the children of Malevizi with their English skills, you experience their culture through their lives and interests. Val, a Greece Volunteer, shares her journal entry recalling two unforgettable weeks of “summer language camp” with eager Greek students: “As […]

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July 31, 2018/by Sam Pinakoulaki
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Service-Learning

International Service in High School Curricula

International Service in High School Curricula

In the second part of her essay excerpted here, Nilusha Jayasinghe talks about why she believes schools should include international service in high school curricula. Read the first part of her essay here. Student Volunteering Abroad: One Of the Best Decisions Of My Life With every graduate school application, job opportunity, or volunteer opportunity that comes […]

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January 16, 2018/by Global Volunteers
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