Volunteers at Picaflor House, Globalteer’s Peru Children’s Project, pitted their wits against locals and tourists in the project’s first ever fund-raising quiz at The Real McCoy, a popular downtown Cusco bar last week. A total of 120 Peruvian Soles was raised when 5 teams battled through 6 rounds of diverse questions on subjects including Queen […]
Children at Globalteer’s Peru Community Project near Cusco – can now enjoy playing in a fully equipped playground thanks to the fundraising efforts of former UK volunteer Katie Borg, and her pupils at Kettlethorpe High School in Wakefield, where Katie works as a Spanish teacher.Katie spent two weeks volunteering in 2011 and following her time […]
A Group of intrepid fundraisers braved the snow and ice of the British winter to raise almost £2,000 for Globalteer’s Siem Reap-based Cambodia Kids project.The team of four, aged from 45 to 52, and including two former Globalteer volunteers had decided to undertake what they thought would be a “moderate but not too challenging” 13 […]
12 cyclists have conquered rain, wind, heat and dust to complete an awe-inspiring 310km sponsored bike ride in aid of one of Globalteer’s local Cambodian partners. The group of staff and volunteers from Canada, Australia, Northern Ireland, UK, USA, and Cambodia all work at the local school and community project in Siem Reap, Cambodia.The team […]
Christine, from the UK, has become a serial fund-raiser for Globalteer’s Peru Community Project Picaflor House, in the village of Oropesa near Cusco after volunteering at the project for four weeks in 2012. She explained why she wanted to continue fund-raising after she had left Peru: “I liked what was being done for the children of […]
Simon Hare and Colin Newstead (both of whom ended up working for Globalteer in Cambodia) decided they wanted to raise money for Globalteer’s Cambodia Community Projects when they were accepted as volunteers in 2009.Not being fit enough to run a marathon or brave enough to do a sky-dive they came up with the idea of […]