Global Volunteers

Global Volunteers is a private, nonprofit international human and economic development organization founded in 1984, working in close partnership with local people worldwide and in special consultative status with the United Nations and UNICEF. Up to 250 teams of short-term volunteers are mobilized annually to work on long-term community service projects centered primarily on improving the lives of economically impoverished children and their families in over 100 host communities on six continents.

Global Volunteers has demonstrated that short-term volunteers can help local communities ensure that every child receives the 12 essential services that the World Food Program, United Nations Children's Fund, World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization have identified as essential for a child to realize their full potential.

Global Volunteers organizes these essential services within three major categories - Hunger, Health and IQ. Hunger and Health, as foundational interventions on behalf of children, directly support IQ.

Most caring people would agree that dramatically improving the opportunity for children to realize the fullness of their potential is a necessary and sufficient result in and of itself. Why? Because we are talking about children. Because children are innocents. Because children have nothing to do with the tragic and difficult circumstances they're in. Because children are the future. Because adults have the responsibility to care for children and ensure
that they have the opportunity to realize the fullness of their God-given potential. Because each generation has a
seminal duty to ensure the success of the next generation.

Projects include: school and household gardens, child nutrition, micronutrient supplementation, improving stoves, health, nutrition and hygiene education, malaria and dengue fever prevention, deworming, HIV AIDS education, general education, promoting girls' education, potable water and sanitation facilities and psychosocial support.