• The GLP initiative began in 1999-2000 with Dr. Olubayi Olubayi from Kenya; Mr. Denniston Bonadie from St. Vincent & the Grenadines in the Caribbean; Ms. Diana Dade, Dr. Thelma Tate and Ms. Sivan Yosef from New Jersey, USA; Dr. Edward Ramsamy, originally from South Africa; Dr. Emeka Akaezuwa from Nigeria; Ms. Kavitha Ramachandran, an Indian-American; and Mr. Wendel Thomas, from St. Croix and Dominica in the Caribbean.

• Our initial project was the shipment of 17,000 books in Summer 2000 to Africa. However, we have now expanded our mission to address the Caribbean (partnering with the Caribbean Agency for Community Transformation and Support, CariACTS) and we are looking forward to our first Asia shipment.

• GLP attracts serious participation from many people. Some participants are motivated by the twin advantages of linking potential book donors with potential beneficiaries and simultaneously contributing to environmental preservation under the motto: Books for "brainfills" not landfills.

• Other participants are driven by a humane desire to help people in economically poorer countries acquire literacy, education and development. Our student participants seem to have the noblest of motivations: global citizenship based on a much broader conception of the globe as a diverse but unified human community.

Global citizenship- Matching local needs to global resources.