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Our Unite.Act.Engage. 2011 campaign has been launched! We’re aiming to raise USD $55,000 to support our work with children at-risk in Santiago. We run four different educational programs,¡Vamos a Leer!, Festival de Arte, Liga de Deportes and English in Motion, which motivate our kids to get involved in new things, learn different skills and feel a sense of pride when their […]
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By Michelle Schackman VE Volunteer from Ohio, USA It’s important to carry on the spirit of VE Global no matter where you go in life and not forget where you have been. I worked and lived at Domingo Savio from September 2006 – June 2007. I had always wanted to volunteer abroad and decided to […]
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By Nicole Rademacher VE Volunteer from North Carolina, USA Nicole Rademacher is an American video artist currently based in Santiago. She completed her BFA in 2004 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her MFA at Alfred University in 2008. She has exhibited and screened work world-wide including Transmediale, Art Beijing 2010, […]
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By Safia Mizon Thioune VE Volunteer from Withington, England “Don’t come to VE with any set expectations, because your experience will inevitably be different.” This sound advice from a VE member – and something which I would also be inclined to reiterate to potential volunteers myself – was surprisingly easy to heed: I had never […]
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Great news! VE Global recently won a grant (Fondo de Fortalecimiento para la Sociedad Civil) from the Chilean government to help fund our literacy program, ¡Vamos a Leer! Through ¡Vamos a Leer! we help motivate children to find the joy in reading. We help them set reading goals, they select what books they want to read, […]
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By Marketa Zemcakova VE Volunteer from Prague, Czech Republic Read the original post in Czech, or click here for the English translation. Vydat se do Jižní Ameriky byl můj sen, stát se dobrovolníkem mě napadlo před časem a připadalo mi to jako dobrý způsob poznání místní kultury, seznámení se s jejími zvyky a zapojení se do každodenního […]
