Borderless world volunteers
- Borderless world volunteers
Borderless World Volunteers is an international organization founded in 2003 and a registered Canadian charity as of 2005. The mandate of the organization is to empower youth for leadership in global aid [Citation
last = Jenkins
first = Genevieve
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title = Borderless World brings new possibilities to academic programs
newspaper = The McGill Tribune
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year = [2005
date = 2005-05-27
url = http://media.www.mcgilltribune.com/media/storage/paper234/news/2005/09/27/Features/Campus.SilhouetteBorderless.World.Empowering.Mcgill-1000453.shtml] . Volunteers participate in the generation, verification, assessment and implementation of their own development projects. Past projects have been undertaken in the fields of microfinance, agriculture, health and education in Ghana, Brazil and India.
In 2006, a new initiative was launched involving community outreach work in areas home to the Borderless World Volunteers Chapters. In addition several panel series have been organized pertaining to such international crises as climate change and HIV/AIDS.
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External links
* [http://www.borderlessworld.org Borderless World Volunteers]
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