At 22, working for Voluntario Global is my first ever volunteering experience, and along with it came my first chance to ever visit a home for children. I had no…

Today we decided to celebrate International Volunteers Day having some fun at the Volunteer's House! You cannot miss our volunteers' Mannequin Challenge!

As part of our travels we’d always wanted to spend some time volunteering. We found an organisation called Voluntario Global, based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and decided to spend two…

Getting the train for the first time in Buenos Aires, I wasn’t sure what to expect. One of the great things about Buenos Aires is that public transport is cheap,…

Volunteering with Voluntario Global I’ve had the chance to experience life in Argentina’s vibrant capital, Buenos Aires. There are so many things I love about this city, the most beautiful…

Voluntario Global’s mission is to help organizations from local communities and neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires to improve the work that they are already doing, to work towards strengthening local development.

“How do you say ‘my name is…’ in German?” “What do you call this drink in French?” “In Spanish do you translate the name of this film?”

Durant les deux mois que j’ai passés à Buenos Aires en tant que bénévole au sein del’équipe de communication de Voluntario Global, j’ai eu l’opportunité de visiter de nombreux projets…

I’ll be the first to admit: tending to a garden was never part of my “plan”. Geology was definitely not my favorite class in college either. Finding myself in the…

Last Friday, I had the opportunity to attend one of the biggest (if not the biggest) protests of the year. Ni Una Menos is raising awareness on the number of…

Volunteering every day at the soup kitchen is a great way to get to know the community and the atmosphere at the neighborhood. Last week I had a couple of…

From protests to mass media, our volunteers gathered once again to discuss the role of mass media in our respective societies. Questions were raised but ultimately, it came down to…

What is the correlation between duration of stay and amount of difference made? Does it mean the longer I stay, the more change I see? Would I make any difference…

Everyone can agree that love is the universal language. However, I would like to argue that dance is too. I don’t just mean solo dancing, I also mean partner dancing.…

For me, having been invited to Saturday's Bingo at the soup kitchen was both a warm welcoming from the cooks and a great way to spend my first weekend at…

With only 3 published novels it may seem curious as to why Ernesto Sábato is considered one of the literary greats of Argentina, however his personal life and activities make…

I have always been a fan of literature. In fact, at the last possible moment I switched my major from English Literature to Modern Languages when I had the revelation…

In any new city or country one goes to, the first instinct is always to Google for things to do, places to see or even which restaurants to dine in.…

When moving to a new city it can be normal to feel detached from the community and lifestyle of those who have been living there for a long time. However,…

We walked into the daycare to sixteen babies all under the age of one, crawling over the foam flooring, sucking on eyeless, hard dolls, and falling turtle-back during frequent attempts…