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Help Deliver Essential Services to Children

The Essential Services Triangle is Global Volunteers’ graphic
illustration of the United Nations’ mandate to ensure that every child
receives the 12 interventions necessary to realize the fullness of their
human potential.

ERADICATE HUNGER: School and household gardens, child
nutrition, micronutrient supplements and fuel efficient stoves.
IMPROVE HEALTH: Nutrition and hygiene education;
dengue fever, malaria and HIV/AIDs prevention; and
de-worming.
ENHANCE COGNITION: General and girls’ education,
psychosocial support, potable water and sanitary
latrines.

The 12 Essential Services are interdependent
– therefore, our approach is comprehensive.
Essential Services Triangle Volunteers working together help deliver these
important services.
“Every person and community who participates in this endeavor reaps tremendous
benefits due to two basic truths: Give and you shall receive; teach and you shall learn.”
- Global Volunteers Co-founder and CEO Bud Philbrook

you can assist with school and household Eradicating Hunger
First, gardens - which provide micronutrients
to malnourished children and supplement school
feeding programs. They’re also “living laboratories”
for agriculture, science, health and math lessons.
Plant, maintain and harvest container gardens and
promote garden-based classroom learning, in-
cluding how to grow a healthy garden and market
surplus produce.

you can teach pregnant women,
Second, parents, students and school staff
about nutrition, healthy eating habits and the value
of available foods.

you can demonstrate healthy food
Third, preparation and cooking.

Whenever and wherever pregnant women and children are provided the 12 Essential Services, the
positive global consequences are enormous. A steady stream of committed and prepared short-term
volunteers is the “missing link”- an infinitely renewable resource - making a better world possible
for all children. You can be a link in this chain!

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