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Soccer Without Borders
- Aug 1, 2016
Welcoming Back Former Team Leader Jenn Bell
We are thrilled to announce the return of former Team Leader Jenn Bell to the Soccer Without Borders' team. Jenn joins the SWB National Office in Cambridge, MA as the Program Development Manager, overseeing the International Team Leader program and camps, coordinating SWB training programs throughout the year, and supporting staff development. More than three-quarters of full-time Soccer Without Borders' staff members first served in significant volunteer roles. As a Team Lea
Soccer Without Borders
- Feb 22, 2016
Motivations and Outcomes of Long-Term International Sport-for-Development Volunteering
Soccer Without Borders was recently featured in a research study surrounding the impact and sustainability of volunteer tourism. The authors of the study, Natalie Smith, Adam Cohen, and Andrew Pickett, spent five weeks with SWB in Granada, Nicaragua observing organizations and the structure of our international Team Leader program, interviewing past Team Leaders from Nicaragua and Uganda as well. According to the paper, volunteer tourism, or "engaging in volunteer work while
Soccer Without Borders
- Jun 29, 2015
Day One.
It's 9:12 AM on Saturday, 27 June. Day one. I'm thinking it's probably inadvisable to start a blog post within the first couple days of a yearlong move to a new country, but I'm doing it anyway (cause why not...?). Osmara, my fellow team leader, and I arrived at Tres Pisos sometime after 1AM last night. I forget exactly what time it was, but it was late enough for both of us to be feeling an all-encompassing exhaustion today, that's for sure. The 45 minute drive from Managua
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