Hi! My name is Maria Macnamara and I’d like to tell you about my trip to Kenya in January 2010. I went with three Americans who I met for the very first time at Heathrow airport on our layover to Kenya!
To date, I’ve spent time volunteering in Brazil, Thailand and in September 2009, Ethiopia. Whilst [...]
On December 3, Global Volunteer Network officially released its first book, Ripples Of Difference. The book celebrates the “thousands of volunteers who have given their love, energy, and time to help communities in need around the world.”
Ripples of Difference is about real people and real experiences. Volunteers are the life and soul of GVN and [...]
You may have heard me talk about an organization I am passionate about in my local neighborhood, The Miami Shores Heidi Hewes Chapter of the Woman’s Cancer Association of The University of Miami. Yes the name is long, but we refer to it as “Heidi Hewes Chapter of the WCA” locally. I’ve been involved with [...]
Earlier this week I listened as Jeff Turner interviewed Shelley Seale, author of The Weight of Silence: The Invisible Children of India. I was following their conversation while I worked and know that I missed a lot, but Shelley mentioned “volunteer vacations” and the phrase really stuck in my mind.
I looked around a little online [...]
Most of us are born hearing “give in order to receive” and if you really pay attention, they are both the same and one can’t occur without the other. Whether it’s giving compliments, volunteering your time, sharing talents or going out of your way to help people around you.
There’s an ever universal equilibrium with giving [...]