What Happens to Communities After the Volunteer Leaves? The Case for Skill-Based Volunteering
Most volunteer programs do not measure what happens after the volunteer goes home. Here is why that question matters, what the research says about it, and how skill-based volunteering is designed to produce a different answer.
Volunteer in Tanzania: Why We Built The Finish Line Project; And What It Is Not
In Tanzania, the weeks before national examinations carry enormous weight for secondary students. The Finish Line Project was built specifically for those weeks, not to reteach the syllabus, but to close the gap between what students know and what they can demonstrate under pressure.
Is There a Better Way to Volunteer? The Story Behind TotoAfrica
Most of what we inherit; systems, structures, the accepted way of doing things we absorb without examining too closely. This is the question that wouldn't leave, and the organization it eventually built.