December 13, 2001
'Mother Jones': Volunteer Vacations
Global Volunteers sends 2,000 Americans a year on public-service missions to impoverished countries, but based on one volunteer's experience renovating a community center in Hagley Gap, Jamaica, "it's hard to tell who's helping whom," reports Mother Jones (December).
Bud Philbrook, a Minnesota state legislator, and his wife, a publicist named Michelle Gran, founded Global Volunteers in 1980 after spending their honeymoon building an irrigation system in Guatemala. The group
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