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11 February 2010Much of the time, since the notion of voluntary work is that it is unpaid, people’s best efforts can go unrecognized in the wider field. A campaign venture by GVI entitled Are You The Difference? hopes to change that by providing volunteers from across the globe with the opportunity to showcase their community efforts.
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17 January 2010I felt even more positive when I got to Namibia and met my fellow volunteers. Waking at 5.30am, driving for hours in cramped jeeps, building walls, mixing cement and cooking over open fires together accelerated friendships, and people's stories soon began to spill out. It seemed the project was a magnet for people on the cusp of a big life decision, looking for some distance from their daily lives to contemplate their future.
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22 December 2009Miss Louttit contacted Global Vision International (GVI), an organisation that runs volunteer programs world-wide. Miss Louttit said she wanted a program that focused on education, and one that would allow her to live and work in the community. Miss Louttit flew out on October 26 and said the program was structured really well. “We arrived in the middle of the night, where we were picked up and transferred to our accommodation in Delhi. All the volunteers went on an excursion to a city called Jodhpur and then we went on a family stay in the Ossian Desert overnight, followed by a sunrise camel trip which was amazing.”
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20 November 2009Global Vision International (GVI), which currently has 17 volunteer-based projects in South Africa, acknowledges that hosting the World Cup will bring huge benefits to South Africa but says there will also be a short-term loss of support to many projects and that this could have long-term consequences as much of the funding for these projects is generated by volunteer participation.
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18 November 2009World Cup brings new challenges for volunteering projects in South Africa. The potential long term benefits of the World Cup being hosted in South Africa are huge. Yet, as a direct consequence, there are short term costs within the country with the loss of volunteer support and funding to many aid-reliant projects on the ground.
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26 June 2009In order to show the reality of life for poverty-stricken Indian children, many scenes in the movie were actually filmed in the Mumbai slums. But in true Hollywood fashion, the ending was heartwarming goodness. The ending for the real children of these slums is not so pretty.
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18 May 2009...Global Vision International offer projects more connected with science than social investigation...all transferable skills are welcomed.
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21 December 2008The other motivation for taking a placement abroad is the chance to gain experience and training that could help facilitate a career change. "I think people are definitely looking at volunteering as a stepping stone to furthering or changing their careers," says Neil Finnie of Global Vision International, which organises about 2,500 placements each year. "Our core group has always been 18- to 24-year-olds, but we have seen an increase in 30- to 40-something career-breakers. We do offer all sorts of training; from dive qualifications to teaching, to something like a Btec in biological surveying.
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23 July 2008"How a volunteer expedition in Mexico provided valuable research for the coral reef systems of the Mesoamerican Reef along with the reward of additional diver training." By Cheryl MacDonald
"I began my ten week adventure as a mediocre diver with less than twenty dives in my log book and left with close to 100 logged dives, several new certifications, and a new appreciation for diving and what it offers. When my travels are concluded, I now have a new option for a job in the dive industry due to all the training provided. GVI provided me with the tools and training—along with the confidence—necessary to enter into a great new career."
Transitions Abroad
18 June 2008After spending a half hour in the quiet morning watching the antics of the cubs, we snap pictures, gather data, and laugh a lot. Cute doesn’t begin to describe a fuzzy, active cheetah cub. Part of what we’ve learned in our studies on the expedition is how precarious the plight of the cheetah is in South Africa today. As the world’s fastest land animal, its status is listed as threatened and is now considered an Endangered Species.
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