Global Volunteers is a private, non-profit
organization independent of governmental and religious funding. Global Volunteers' programs are financed mostly by volunteers
who pay a fee to serve on a program. This service fee is used primarily to provide important labor and project funding to
the local host community.
Each volunteer's contribution helps provide important services
to at-risk children and impoverished families all over the world, and 100% of your child-sponsorship donation is tax-deductible.
When you go on or contribute to a service program, your program service fee is tax-deductible
too.
Service programs are short-term human development programs. Volunteers
work in close partnership with local people at the invitation of local people and under the direction of local leaders.
Global Volunteers' purpose is to maintain a sustained service partnership with the host community and provide volunteers a
genuine opportunity to serve, while creating a foundation for world peace through mutual understanding.
Established
in 1984
, a decade before the media coined the term "volunteer vacations," Global Volunteers pioneered direct
service-learning programs abroad. Today, they mobilize more than 2,500 volunteers annually on work projects, assisting
more than 100 host communities in 20 countries on 6 continents through volunteer service, direct-project funding, and child
sponsorships.
In order for us to continue to make a difference to the
children and communities we serve around the world, we depend upon our volunteer communiity. If you believe you
would like to join a service team, travel to a new and exotic community in complete safety and under the leadership, care
and guidance of a Global Volunteer staff member, please contact us toll free at: 1-800-487-1074 or......
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