GISD trustees receive formal news on budget The Gainesville Independent School District has its work cut out with the coming budget challenges. Blood Center provides suffer because of the storm Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center staff and volunteers are scrambling this week to make up about 1,400 units of blood that were not collected because [...]

Church to open new school next fall The area’s youngest students will have a new option when it comes time to start school next fall. Dear Reader, This content is only available to subscribers of The Daily Advance print and/or e-edition. Tigard-Tualatin School District’s Caring Closet seeks volunteers The charity clothing and supply boutique benefiting [...]

Bright Hope International continues to help Haiti Although Haiti was devastated by an earthquake in 2010 took the Bright Hope International Organisation its previously established network in the country to provide emergency aid. Since the disaster Bright Hope has continued to send supplies and volunteers to Haiti to help with relief operations. deadline approaches for [...]

volunteers bring words to life MLK Armed with brushes and detergent, students took to the halls of five schools serving low-income Monday through in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Stockbridge Valley Central School students attend Lock-in (updated with video, details of the event) Stockbridge – More than 100 Stockbridge Valley Central School students [...]

We are a UK company based in Scotland who work in areas of Africa to provide simple sustainable water boilers to people in rural areas or anywhere where people use a fire to cook. The video shows a simple method to improve water and sanitation and also improving standard of living. Below is a brief [...]

‘s recruitment process for volunteer abroad is very selective. Sometimes it will be worse than a working one side constraints do not depend on what a person is able to do, but about how a person is. Besides flexibility, or the desire to go through a different experience, it is a challenge that must come [...]

My time working with VESA (Volunteer Eco Students Abroad) in the Amazon Jungle in Ecuador. Great friends, amazing experiences and lifelong memories. Music is White Moth by Xavier Rudd VESA is a really cool volunteering program offering university students (but you dont have to be a student!) the chance to go on a short term [...]

We came to Sri Lanka just after finishing our final school exams in Ireland. We wanted to do something else (as opposed to just sunning ourselves in Spain), and that is exactly what we found. Our first day in Kanishta Vidyalaya School in Mawala is unforgettable! As has just had 14 years as a student [...]

Former Senegal volunteer Erin O’Quinn is back in the U.S. for over a year now, but she certainly has not forgotten the children who made such an impression on her at the Care & Community placement. Erin is planning a new tour to Senegal in December to visit her host family and old friends, but [...]

Last month outreach program was based on Nigagaha Kanishta Vidyalaya School in Bulatsinghala. Ex volunteer Anne secured funding in the U.S. to build a curry kitchen at the school to give all students a free and delicious school lunch every day. Work closely with the Ministry of Health, she also aims to create a greater [...]