News Highlights
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Abundant Life Family Worship Church Hosts New Jersey-wide Community Book Drive for South African Children GLP is pleased to partner with the Abundant Life Family Worship Church's R.E.A.C.H ministry (under the leadership of Bishop George C. Searight and Pastor Mary Searight) in a New Jersey-wide book drive to benefit GLP supported schools and libraries in South Africa. They are collecting elementary to high school level textbooks as well as general reading books. The group will also have "volunteer days" for individuals and organizations to help sort and pack at 259 George St., New Brunswick.
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Abundant Life Family Woship Center Members Show Their Support. To participate, contact Joyelle Harris at jejones@princeton.edu. |
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Saturday, October 22, 2005.- The Make-A-Difference Day Walkathon collected books and raised funds to help establish children's libraries for two AIDS orphanages in Africa as well as supporting a New Brunswick (New Jersey, USA) teen center. |
| Rutgers Students Join Global Literacy Project’s 2004 Walkathon To Draw Attention To the Plight of Devastated Grenadians | |
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This year’s “Walk for Literacy” was aimed at raising awareness of literacy issues and struggles in local New Jersey communities as well as internationally. Locally, GLP intends to supply books and resource materials to the New Brunswick Teen Center. The Caribbean country of Grenada was the focus of international reflection because schools and libraries in Grenada were recently devastated by hurricane Ivan. |
Keynote Speaker Rutgers University Vice President for Student Affairs Gregory Blimling with Walkathon Participants |
New Jersey Organization Pitches In To Help Tobago Schools
With Trinidad and Tobago Consul General Harold Robertson on hand, the initiative was launched in a ceremony at Rutgers University's Livingston, N.J., campus. To start the project, a shipping container with nearly 20,000 books and 10 computers will be sent to Tobago to help establish four new libraries. More... |
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Literacy organization sends textbooks to Kenya
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| 2003 Make-A-Difference Day Aims for Global Impact
(Patty Tsai, Phung Tran, Ed Antiquena, Nutthinee Katapituk, Eva Sas) Seventeen computers saved from land fills will be heading to Swaziland (Southern Africa) along with some 3000 elementary textbook and high school textbooks. Donations of 2,500 general reading books will see the creation of small reference libraries for juvenile offenders in two correctional facilities in New Jersey and New York.. Ten computers and 2000 math, science and literature books will be making their way to the Caribbean island of Tobago. |
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Ursinus College Makes a difference to African Universities (Feb. 2003)
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10/29/2002.- An eighth grade project will see used books recycled to children in Africa, thanks to a project spearheaded by parents association member Nuala Passannante. Each year the parents collect books to be recirculated to Peddie students, but there were always many leftover. |
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Princeton Area Schools Donate Computers for GLP Multimedia Centers
Princeton, New Jersey-The elementary and high schools donated used Apple computers to GLP for Multimedia Learning Center initiatives-Above are Liz Lien and Peter Thompson looking on as Edward Ramsamy and Denniston Bonadie of GLP assess donation. (July 2002) |
Director of the Reading Association of Nigeria (RAN) visits GLP
Kavitha Ramachandran, Dr. Chukwuemeka Onukaogu (Reading Association of Nigeria-RAN) and Denniston Bonadie, at the GLP warehouse on Dr. Onukaogu's visit from Nigeria to the USA in July 2002 |
2002 Black History Month Book Drive Delivers 70,000 Books to Africa! |
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Members of: TWESE-Rutgers African Students Organization; GOYA-Rutgers Students for Volunteerism; and WISO-West Indian Students Organization; all pitched in to make our book drive a success  ABOVE: Edward Ramsamy, GLP Secretary, Olubayi Olubayi, President, Upendra Chivukula, Assemblyman, Sivan Yosef, GLP Volunteers Coordinator, Denniston Bonadie, GLP Vice President-Program Development. |
ABOVE: New Brunswick, NJ (District 17) Assemblyman UPENDRA J. CHIVUKULA (Seen here, L-->R, with GLP Director of Public Relations, Kavita Ramachandran, GLP Secretary Edward Ramsamy and GLP Advisory Board Member Diana Dade), made a surprise visit to support our February 2002 Black History Month Book Drive. |
Timeline
to Official Founding of the Global Literacy Project, Inc. |
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Inaugural Board of Trustees:Olubayi
Olubayi; Denniston Bonadie; Thelma Tate; Edward Ramsamy; Sivan Yosef;
Diana Dade; Kavitha Ramachandran, Wendel Thomas; Dr. Emeka Akaezuwa
Advisory Board-Executive CommitteeJoseph Dupont; A. A. A. Ekirapa (February
2002)
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10-14-2004.-An effort to establish academic resource libraries and multimedia laboratories in two dozen Tobago schools over the next four years was kicked off recently by GLP. 
