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Groton School Kids to Kids Club Bakesale – Lizzy’s Story

Last year when I went to my very first Kids to Kids meeting, I started talking to a girl in the grade above me, Kate, who had never been to a Kids to Kids meeting before either. Somehow we started...

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Fundraising Tips from Lauren

  Lauren organizing a fundraiser with her school's Kids Connect Club 12/16/10 – Fundraising events are a powerful tool for young people to raise money to support World Connect projects; but how do you...

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Project Update: All Roads Lead to Green

12/21/10 – One of our big goals for World Connect in 2011 is to be GREAT storytellers by finding new and creative ways to share the amazing stories that we hear from our partners around the world....

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Field Notes

Written 9/1/12 by Marina – When we set out on our trip from Cusco to visit World Connect’s projects in Tuti, I had no idea what to expect, but I was excited. Our drive lasted eight hours, the first...

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Our Commitment to Rwanda

Emily and Sarah Nuss, co-founders of “Kids Connect” and members of World Connect’s Youth Advisory Board, spent Summer 2012 in Rwanda, volunteering with an organization called” Spark MicroGrants. This...

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Putting Faces to the Projects: Outstanding Persons Series

This “Outstanding Persons” series was curated by Gideon Lovell-Smith. Gideon spent this fall working as a games keeper on an estate in Scotland, joining World Connect this past winter. Gideon is...

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A Saint in Siloe

A light has gone out in Haiti. In 2012, World Connect began working with the Center for the Arts in Siloe, a tent community in Port-au-Prince established after the 2010 earthquake and populated mostly...

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Reflecting on our work in Kenya

World Connect has been working in Kenya since 2011 in partnership with many dynamic, talented grassroots leaders and community-based organizations, as well as committed Peace Corps Volunteers placed in...

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Brooklyn to El Salvador

Since 2009, World Connect has partnered with schools across the country to engage youth in international development, philanthropy and service learning. Through Kids Connect, students choose a project...

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Kids Connect US Expansion

World Connect’s Kids Connect program is partnering with more schools, programs, and students every day. From Massachusetts to California, students and teachers are forming Kids Connect clubs, piloting...

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