Global Volunteers
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Global Volunteers established in 1984, is an international nonprofit organization based in St. Paul, Minnesota. Global Volunteers assists community development programs worldwide by mobilizing short-term volunteers on local work programs called "volunteer vacations" and through direct project funding and child sponsorships. Global Volunteers is one of a few non-sectarian, nonprofit, international volunteer organizations to hold special consultative status with the UN.[1]
According to an interview in People magazine, Global Volunteers was founded by a husband and wife team, Bud Philbrook and Michele Gran on the basis that such individual cross cultural experiences are "the foundation for peace-building relationships, one person at a time.”[2]
Global Volunteers takes on many types of projects, such as childcare, English teaching and light construction, and ensures benefit to the communities the projects serve by monitoring work effectiveness, consistently bringing back volunteers several times each year to the same community, and working closely with local community leaders. [3]
[edit] References
- ^ NGOs in consultative status with ECOSOC. United Nations (2005-07-25). Retrieved on 2006-12-01.
- ^ Hubbard, Kim (2001). "Guiding Lights". People magazine. convenience link from Global Volunteers website.
- ^ Cohen, Adam. "Editorial Observer; Lending a Hand in an African Village (Don't Mind the Goats)", New York Times, 2003-08-01. Retrieved on 2008-03-31.
