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GVI in 10 slides.

It’s hard to put into words what it’s like, the experience of contributing to a GVI program.

The feelings, the fulfilment, the life-changing new perspectives – they have to be experienced to be truly understood.

However, the next ten slides will get you started on your journey with GVI.

We hope to give you some sense of what drives us, and why GVI is recognised as one of the world’s leading development and conservation organisations.

Programs with Impact

Everyone who participates in a GVI program makes a meaningful contribution to a project with clear long-term development or conservation goals.

In close partnership with local communities and organisations, we work to set up collaborative projects. These projects work towards objectives that are aligned with our ethical standards and with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.

Long-term commitments to communities and environments allow us to build successful partnerships and enduring relationships. A selection of the successes resulting from these partnerships can be seen in our new Impact and Ethics Report.

Read our Impact and Ethics Report

Measuring our Impact

GVI is pioneering a new approach to measuring the joint impact we have in local communities and ecosystems , and also on our programs participants.

We believe that the effective measurement and transparent reporting of our impact is important. It ensures we can be held accountable by our participants, our partners, and the communities and environments where we operate.

Our Impact Unit measurement system is an innovative method that’s soon to be launched globally across all of our operations.

Measuring our Impact

Our Ethics

It’s not enough to do good. Sometimes, doing what we believe to be good can actually have negative consequences. This is why it’s important to stop and think about the actions we take towards helping others, and ask if those actions are the are the most effective for a given context.

That’s a big part of what we are trying to say with our Badge of Ethics. Stop, think about how you’re doing good, and always ask: is there a way to do good, better?

This approach to empowerment and ethics is what our Badge of Ethics symbolises.

Learn More here

Safety and Support

Our award-winning support and safety processes have been finely tuned over more than two decades. We combine established processes with a highly active local and global network of GVI employees who demonstrate a family-like care for the well-being of our participants.

Each of our staff members is vetted, selected, employed, trained, and managed by GVI. All locations feature accommodation, transport, meal providers, and local medical care facilities that have undergone a full risk assessment by our in-country staff using international risk assessment standards.

Meet our team

What’s it
actually like?

Life on a GVI base is a fun, challenging, inspiring, developmental, educational experience. It can be tiring and even tough at times. But, it's always rewarding.

Click on the video to the right to have a look around.

People with a shared vision

Connecting with other participants from around the world is a major part of the GVI experience. All of us here in GVI’s global community are working to have a meaningful, positive impact. We share a similar vision, and if we're being honest, we're all a little bit eccentric too. Many GVI alumni walk away from their GVI programs with new, life-long friends.

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Build your career

There’s more to GVI programs than doing good. All GVI programs include learning opportunities, work experience, and qualifications. Learn about the importance of local community engagement for achieving conservation outcomes, gain experience in conducting coral health surveys, and earn qualifications like a PADI Divemaster or ILM Leadership Certificate.

Develop skills, experience, and knowledge in a range of subjects from international development and social innovation to marine conservation and education. Our goal is to have everyone develop not only technical skills but a vision for their life’s work, no matter which GVI program they choose to join.

Find out about Internships

What our participants say

My time with GVI Laos was really life changing. The students and novices are wonderful, not only to teach, but to know as people. Each has a story about their ethnic group, their home province, or their career aspirations. The GVI staff are also incredibly respected in the community and are thorough and mindful in their volunteer training so that we never felt like foreigners. For anyone studying to be a teacher, as I am, the teaching experience is invaluable, and for anyone else the cultural experience is incredible.

Ashley Emmerton
GVI Luang Prabang, Laos

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GVI in 10 slides.

Programs with Impact

Measuring our Impact

Our Ethics

Safety and Support

What’s it
actually like?

People with a shared vision

Connect with us

Build your career

What our participants say

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VOLUNTEER IN GIANNITSOCHORI

OUR PROGRAMS IN GIANNITSOCHORI

Download our program brochures

Contact Us

GVI

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GVI in 10 slides.

Programs with Impact

Measuring our Impact

Our Ethics

Safety and Support

What’s it actually like?

People with a shared vision

Connect with us

Build your career

What our participants say

Find your program

What’s it
actually like?