Global Vision International
Encyclopedia
Global Vision International (GVI) is a private volunteer travel organisation that places groups and individuals on volunteer projects around the world. They facilitate volunteering projects, conservation
research expeditions, internships and teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) courses.
The company was founded in 1998 by Richard Walton to provide support to the bay islands of Honduras
who had suffered during Hurricane Mitch
. 300 people applied to volunteer abroad making it a huge success. Since then it has become one of the largest volunteer travel organisations in the world employing over 100 people with offices in the UK, US and Australia.
In 2003 GVI set up its careers abroad service for those wanting travel and to make a career out of helping others. The following year GVI set up the Global Vision International Charitable Trust which works on various conservation and humanitarian initiatives worldwide.
Over 150 critical conservation and humanitarian projects worldwide now rely on Global Vision International (GVI) for volunteers, promotion and direct funding. GVI offers projects that make an in-country difference, only working on long-term sustainable projects, set up in conjunction with local organisations. All benefits of the project remain in-country and nationals are trained for free in the skills we teach our volunteers. GVI actively promotes sustainable development through environment research, conservation and education.
In April 2008 Ed Stafford
, former GVI Country Director for Patagonia
, started his attempt to walk the Amazon River
.
(video of GVI experiences)
Conservation ethic
Conservation is an ethic of resource use, allocation, and protection. Its primary focus is upon maintaining the health of the natural world: its, fisheries, habitats, and biological diversity. Secondary focus is on materials conservation and energy conservation, which are seen as important to...
research expeditions, internships and teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) courses.
The company was founded in 1998 by Richard Walton to provide support to the bay islands of Honduras
Honduras
Honduras is a republic in Central America. It was previously known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras, which became the modern-day state of Belize...
who had suffered during Hurricane Mitch
Hurricane Mitch
Hurricane Mitch was the most powerful hurricane and the most destructive of the 1998 Atlantic hurricane season, with maximum sustained winds of 180 mph . The storm was the thirteenth tropical storm, ninth hurricane, and third major hurricane of the season. Along with Hurricane Georges, Mitch...
. 300 people applied to volunteer abroad making it a huge success. Since then it has become one of the largest volunteer travel organisations in the world employing over 100 people with offices in the UK, US and Australia.
In 2003 GVI set up its careers abroad service for those wanting travel and to make a career out of helping others. The following year GVI set up the Global Vision International Charitable Trust which works on various conservation and humanitarian initiatives worldwide.
Over 150 critical conservation and humanitarian projects worldwide now rely on Global Vision International (GVI) for volunteers, promotion and direct funding. GVI offers projects that make an in-country difference, only working on long-term sustainable projects, set up in conjunction with local organisations. All benefits of the project remain in-country and nationals are trained for free in the skills we teach our volunteers. GVI actively promotes sustainable development through environment research, conservation and education.
In April 2008 Ed Stafford
Ed Stafford
Ed Stafford is an English explorer and former British-army captain. He was also an expedition leader for extreme conservation company Trekforce.-Biography:...
, former GVI Country Director for Patagonia
Patagonia
Patagonia is a region located in Argentina and Chile, integrating the southernmost section of the Andes mountains to the southwest towards the Pacific ocean and from the east of the cordillera to the valleys it follows south through Colorado River towards Carmen de Patagones in the Atlantic Ocean...
, started his attempt to walk the Amazon River
Amazon River
The Amazon of South America is the second longest river in the world and by far the largest by waterflow with an average discharge greater than the next seven largest rivers combined...
.
External links
- www.gvi.co.uk (GVI Website)
- www.gvi.org.uk (Global Vision International Charitable Trust)
- www.careersabroad.co.uk (GVI’s Careers Abroad Service)
- http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/career_and_jobs/graduate_management/article1291095.ece
- http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_method=full%26objectid=18444631%26siteid=89520-name_page.html
- http://money.guardian.co.uk/work/story/0,,1876119,00.html
- http://www.tes.co.uk/section/story/story.aspx?story_id=2305074
- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15306942/
- http://allafrica.com/stories/200611140138.html
- http://www.mansfieldtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=722&ArticleID=1874371
- http://www.gazetteseries.co.uk/news/latestnews/newsroundup/display.var.1491327.0.off_to_help_street_kids_in_mexico.php
- http://www.ingilizcekitaplar.net
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7j_7exYnas
(video of GVI experiences)