Archives: August 2010

Welcome back from Puerto Rico Sarah

Posted: 08 / 10 / 2010
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Global Works Office Homie Sarah is settling back in at home in Boulder after spending three weeks in Puerto Rico preparing and leading the second session of the Puerto Rico Summer Service Adventure program.   Sarah, her co-leaders Nicole Pitre, Danny Barocas, Country Director Tyrone Moore and 21 high school students made a big impact on communities they visited on their trip.  “Working in the community of Vega Baja really showed me that a few people can make a big difference,” Sarah reflects.   The group worked on home construction projects building floors, columns, beams and foundations all from concrete mixed by hand with shovels.  “In this community we are working to create more permanent, concrete, hurricane-proof structures for families who are currently living in decaying wooden houses”.   The group also worked on various environmental projects including organic gardening and sustainable forestry.  Sarah misses the ocean but is happy to be back in the mountains.  She plans on taking advantage of the summer and fall activities in the mountains such as trail running, camping, backpacking and swimming!  “I’m already looking forward to returning to Puerto Rico.”  (more…)

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Raglan Chronicle Article – NZF 2010

Posted: 08 / 04 / 2010
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The 2010 New Zealand / Fiji participants  submitted an article about their service projects to the Raglan Chronicle this summer, check it out!

Global Works is a community service based organization which brings high school students from the United States to the town of Raglan for one week. This year fourteen students participated in service and education programs at Kia Whenua Organics, Liz and Rick’s farm, Orem Park fruit forest, Xtreme Waste, Peggy Oki’s Origami whale project and a beach clean-up on Nganui Beach.

This year Global Works continued their work at Oram Park and added to the fruit forest for the entire community to enjoy. Two new gardens were formed. This task consisted of a few steps including staking the area, digging up the grass, laying down cardboard, shoveling the mulch into the area, and lastly planting fruit trees. Global works worked together as a team along with many members of the community to create an environment that benefits the town of Raglan. Workers from Xtreme Waste provided us with the materials needed and also helped with the work. Global Works completed a fruit forest that they hope will benefit the Raglan community for many years to come.


Global Works also learned about how important marine life is to the society of New Zealand, and the Global Works team spent some of its time to help preserve it. (more…)

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