Global Teams

FAQs

Global Teams

Global Teams: How To Join

We start forming our teams in October and November of each year. If you are interested in being on a team this year, you should:

  1. Download a copy of the application form (PDF Format) / (Word Format) and fill it out. Please ensure that you have the latest version of your PDF software (i.e. Acrobat Reader).
  2. Email your area contact, listed below (in October and November) to let them know you are interested in joining a team. You will then be notified about when and where you can attend an information session.
  3. At the information session, you can sign up for an interview with the team leaders in your area.
  4. Stay tuned to this website for Information Session details for the various campuses.

Information Sessions are now over but some regions are still recruiting. Please refer below to see who!

Please contact your region. If you do not receive a response, please email globalyouthnet@yahoo.ca. If you do not live in one of the regions, you are welcome to email and submit an application for a team in a nearby region.

Area Contacts

All other areas for this year, contact globalyouthnet@yahoo.ca.

2009-2010 Teams

  • Hamilton Region Morocco, Nicaragua, Argentina, Bolivia, Thailand
  • Waterloo Region Macedonia, Peru, Mizoram (India), El Salvador
  • Guelph Region Tanzania, Guatemala, Cambodia, British Columbia
  • Toronto Region Kenya, Philippines
  • London Region Kenya, Manaus (Brazil)
  • Ottawa Region Thailand, El Salvador
  • Calgary Region Sao Paulo (Brazil), Jinja (Uganda), Soroti (Uganda) Nepal, Thailand, Northern Canada
  • Vancouver Region Ghana, Sao Gabriel (Brazil)
  • Montreal Region Burkina Faso

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What is your favourite memory?

Standing on a church roof in Acapulco in the pouring rain.
-Nathan Leis Steckley, Hamilton

Would you go again?

I'm Ready to go right now!
-Ben Wilke, New Dundee

How has this affected your World View?

It changed my perspective as to what my role is in the world. I realized that I should be using my strengths and time to serve the needs of others rather than my own.
-Darren Courtney, Missasauga

What did you learn?

I learned that being a shark in the ocean is a heck of a lot more exciting than being a goldfish in a bowl…Live Life!!
-Tara Tracey, Kapuskasing