International Partner Stories

Our international partners accomplish amazing things with volunteers. Read their stories.

Volunteer assistance is critical to enabling our international partners to create change in their communities. Many of them have shared the work they were able to accomplish with the help of international volunteers. Read their stories below.

Hug It Forward Chase Community Giving Voting Contest

August 13, 2012

Hug It Forward, United States

Help Hug It Forward win $100,000 to build more bottle schools, through the Chase Community Giving program! It's really easy to help - just vote for us via the Chase Community Giving Facebook app: http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/Voting is open from September 6th through the 19th - the top ten charities with the most votes will each win $100,000. We know that we have a really good chance of winning, if we can just get all of our supporters to vote and to tell a few of their friends to vote.We are trying to get as many people as possible to join this Facebook Event before voting starts, to help spread the word!Please join this event, and please invite your friends to join!Thank you for your support. With your help we can win,...

Volunteering in Morocco

August 13, 2012

Moroccan Center for Arabic Studies, Morocco

Volunteering is defined as the action of one person giving their assistance through their actions, to another person or a cause for nothing in return. But what do we mean when we express a desire to volunteer? It was in this context that I first came to Morocco back in 2007. I was ready and eager to give myself over to the local work assigned to me. I knew I was going to enjoy it, for no other reason than it was going to be something foreign, something brand new and an experience in a new setting I was undoubtedly going to learn from.My work consisted of orphanage duty, a task I gladly accepted. It was an all morning activity, 4 hours before lunch and then I was off until...

SRI Kistapur – A Systematic Rice Intensification Cultivation Success Story

August 11, 2012

Aranya Agricultural Alternatives, India

Kistapur is a little village in Lokeshwaram mandal with near 150 family habitations, would have been like any other ordinary village in interiors of Adilabad district, if not for the Systematic Rice Intensification (SRI) NABARD is spreading to their paddy fields through Aranya Agricultural Alternatives (AAA) a local NGO, the light all encompassing their yield output and even impacting their lives and livelihoods.It all began way back in the Rabi of 2010-11 when AAA started implementing the SRI project sanctioned by NABARD under FTTF in its 3 operational mandals of which Kistapur was chosen a target beneficiary village.With preliminary meetings being held,awareness campaigns conducted,wall writings,reading materials like brochure distribution, advertising through film shows,displaying SRI calenders and other promotion activities undertaken, 32 farmers came forward to take up the implementation of the...

Stephanie's visit to Cuellaje, Intag

August 10, 2012

Intag, Ecuador

I’ve just spent 4 brilliant weeks in Intag volunteering at the school in El Rosario and staying with Alfonso’s very kind family on top of a hill with great views. It was great seeing a different way of life. They have milling machines that look a few hundred years old. If it’s not within walking distance and unless you happen to have a car, motorbike or horse, people get around standing on the back of utility trucks (great fun!). Houses are mainly wooden and quite basic. Where I stayed the bathroom was an outhouse and the electrical part of the shower head did not work, so showers were cold unless it was the middle of the day when the sun had heated up the...

Torrey Pines High School joins Global Vantage Chapter

August 08, 2012

Global Journal Project, United States

Torrey Pines High School has joined the three-school partnership of the Global Vantage Chapter under the umbrella of the Global Journal Project. Each chapter consists of a public school, a private school, and an international school, and Torrey Pines (San Diego, CA) now makes up the public school component, alongside the private school, Pacific Ridge School (Carlsbad, CA), and the international school, the Kibera Girls Soccer Academy (Kibera, Kenya).Recently, students from Torrey Pines High School and Pacific Ridge School met up at the GJP headquarters to hold a stratetic meeting in which introductions were made and collabaration began. Ideas and concepts were tossed around as students gathered together in role-specific groups to discuss the future of Global Vantage. Topics addressed during the meeting included editing, layout design, marketing, finances, and...

Let Join Hands to improve Education status in Lukwambe Sub village.

August 08, 2012

Ngerengere River Eco Camp, Tanzania

Lukwambe has a population of more than 300 people and the nearest secondary school is in Ubena, which is about 30 Km away. In this conditions, it is not surprising that only 3 students attend school. We are currently designing a plan to built a school in this area, thus facilitating the provision of education.We will need help to fundraise and built the infrastructure, i.e. classrooms, dormitories, electricity, water, playgrounds and transport. Moreover we are looking for donations of educational resources such as school books, and stationary; volunteers to conduct fundraising; and long term volunteers to teach and share ideas and projects for alternative education. ...

Call for 2012-2013 Volunteers

August 07, 2012

Health-Inc, India

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Summer Festival, August 2012

August 06, 2012

Parijat Academy, India

US mentors for needy kids - American volunteers help children celebrate summer fest SAURAV BORA ...

Omprakash/AM Cross-Cultural Workshop – Part I: Arriving in Costa Rica

August 03, 2012

Voluntario Global, Argentina

As partner of The Omprakash Foundation, I applied in March for the Stipend Award for a Cross-Cultural Workshop in Costa Rica.Some time ago Omprakash informed me that they had given me the stipend to attend the workshop. So I got myself prepared to attend the Omprakash Cross-Cultural Workshop in Costa Rica – organized by Opening Minds.Arriving in Costa Rica…After recently arriving in Costa Rica and coming from the winter of Buenos Aires (5 degrees), the first challenge was to adapt myself to an average of 28 degrees.Having landed at the east coast of the country and needing to travel to the west coast for the conference, (around 5 hours on the bus), my first encounter with the locals was with the people on the bus.It was great to start to...

Georgia Coxhead in Buea, Cameroon

August 01, 2012

Social Development International, Cameroon

Dear Friends and Supporters, We are pleased to inform you of our new volunteer - Georgia Coxhead from UK to arrive 8 August 2012 on GNFF Cameroon establishment. Welcome Georgia, have fun and enjoy Buea, Cameroon legendary hospitality while making the impact in our communities.