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GLP Supported Conferences & Panels Panel Explores the Dynamics of Giving in the "New" Philanthropy
7:30 p.m., April 29, 2008 A Panel at Rutgers University featuring Matthew Bishop, Chief Business Writer/US Business Editor of The Economist. More... GLP Volunteers in the News Library Director of the Pingry School's Short Hills campus, Ann D’Innocenzo was honored with GLP's 2007 “Librarian of the Year Award”
The award recognized her volunteer efforts in creating a new library in Randfontein—a town west of Johannesburg—and a system that categorizes books with color-coding. This system will now be used in future community-based libraries that operate without full time trained library staff. More... Read Ann's reflections on her trip HERE. Teen's Bar Mitzvah Project To Create Community Library in Western Kenya
Matthew's goal is to help create the first and only community run public library in the Chamasiri Location of western Kenya. More... New Jersey Students Collect Over 50,000 Books for South African School Libraries
More... (See local New Jersey newspaper coverage here--> 1 | 2) See details about the drive in the July 2007 on-line edition of Vanity Fair! 2007 Global Learning Expedition Volunteers Warmly Welcomed by South African Community More... (See South African news coverage here...) Global Learning Expedition volunteers visit Kenya to explore setting up water intervention projects A group of volunteers traveled to eastern Kenya (August, 5-26, 2006), into a region hit by three years of drought, to install a rainwater harvesting system for a community where GLP already helped to create a library.
The team also visited western Kenya where they hope to help build a bridge in summer 2007. More... GLP "Global Learning Expedition" volunteers create AIDS orphanage library in South Africa
Jan. 2-15, 2006.-The group created a small library at the Carroll Shaw Children’s Home (just outside Johannesburg, South Africa). More... New York City School System Math Consultant Prepares Kenyan Students For Excellence- July 2004
Simone Bingham has become an important resource person supporting GLP's Math/Science Initiative in our Africa locations. With fellow New York city teacher, Claire Walsh, she has personally seen the donation of some 10,000+ math texts. More... GLP volunteer's time in Kenya becomes inspiration for her visual arts senior thesis (5/2004)
Volunteering with GLP leaves permanent impression for Jaymie Stein. More... |
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Literacy Donation to St. Vincent and the Grenadines Will Make An Impact According to Ministry Officials
At the end of February the island nation of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) officially distributed its first GLP consignment of books and literacy support materials. The core component of the GLP donation will be the establishment of library collections in twelve Community Learning Centers throughout the nation. Another part of the collection established:
In receiving the donation, SVG's Minister of Education, the Hon. Girlyn Miguel stressed the timeliness and usefulness of the materials. |
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New Jersey Students Work to Help Transform Education for Partner School in South Africa
February 25, 2008.- The students of Chatham Day School (CDS), located in northern New Jersey, are taking a hands-on approach to cross-cultural learning and understanding. Working with the assistance of the Global Literacy Project, Chatham Day School has partnered with a South African primary school named Thabisile Primary School. Thabisile is a small township school located in one of the poorest areas of Soweto.
Integrated into the Middle School social studies and language arts curricula the purpose of the program is to enable intercultural dialogue and to increase knowledge and understanding of each other's societies. The partnership program has become and exciting and effective way of providing learners with an understanding and knowledge of the world.This year's partnership is culminating with CDS students collecting textbooks and other appropriate educational materials, including teacher manuals, for every grade of Thabisile school. Their donations will create for the first time, learning libraries in each classroom of Thabisile. The students have also helped to upgrade productivity tools for Thabisile teachers by providing a laptop for instructional use as well as a video camcorder to enable cross school dialogue from South Africa to the USA.
CDS students also now see development issues as personal rather than theoretical as a result of communicating directly with Thabisile students and hosting a teacher from Thabisile. "Our students are now more enthused and willing to become more involved,” said Donna Greco, coordinator of the CDS end of the program. More...
Activist’s Autobiography Reflects on the Children’s March That Challenged South African Apartheid
February 16-28, 2008.- In apartheid South Africa of the 1970s Caroline Setsiba became part of a generation of students who directly challenged apartheid rule in South Africa. However, for many years Setsiba did not reflect on her own story at all. “It was painful to remember about those things happen to you. Also, as dramatic as my story might be, I didn’t think anyone outside my family would be interested” she told audiences at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Hobart and William Smith Colleges in New York and at the Pingry School (Upper and Middle) in New Jersey.
Setsiba's visit to the U.S. was sponsored by The Global Literacy Project, Inc., a New Jersey-based non-profit organization that establishes and promotes literacy in developing countries. This sponsorship, under GLP’s “Campaign for Literacy,” allowed the apartheid survivor to come to the States and thank the organization and its many volunteers for their ongoing commitment towards supporting excellence in education for South African children and adults. More... ________ (Take a look at this news coverage of her visit to the Pingry School in New Jersey HERE)
South African Consul General Commends Middle School and High School Volunteers December 1, 2007.-The Hon. Fikele Magubane, South African Consul General to New York, graciously joined the members of The Global Literacy Project at their year end dinner themed "An Evening of Celebration and Reflections." As part of the evening's activities, she recognized a dozen middle school to high school students who helped collect and ship over 80,000 books for African schools and community libraries during the past year. The Library Director of the Pingry Short Hills campus, Ann D’Innocenzo was honored with the “Librarian of the Year Award." Five students were also awarded The GLP's "Volunteer of the Year" plaque. More... |
50,000 Books On Their Way to Young Readers December 24, 2007.- With book donations from bookstores such as Barnes & Noble, publishers, and public libraries as well as many individuals and civic groups across the USA, some 50,000 books will reach the hands of young readers over this holiday season. More... |
Twin First Graders Use Their Birthday to Collect Books for GLP January 30, 2008.- Elisha and Michelle are twin sisters who are in the first grade at Tamaques Elementary School in Westfield, New Jersey. As young readers, they are appreciative of how wonderful it is to be able to read. They also understand that not everyone has the opportunity or resources to learn to read. When they learned of the Global Literacy Project and all that the organization does to promote literacy around the world, they decided that they wanted to do something to help. More... |
We seek to build High Literacy Clusters (HLCs) wherever we are working. More... |
Creating classrooms that encourage growth. More... |
Books for Africa, (South) Asia and the Caribbean. More... |
Providing volunteer opportunities for Global Citizens of all ages. More... |
Conferences & Panels “The Role of the Kenyan Diaspora in Kenya’s Development”
Kennesaw
State University As part of Kennesaw State University’s academic year-long study, the “Year of Kenya,” GLP was pleased to co-sponsor this conference--bringing together scholars, practitioners, activists, and the general public--to examine the role of the Kenyan Diaspora in Kenya’s development. More... GLP Conference on Education and Leadership in Western Kenya
December 28, 2006 |
Key Literacy Events International Literacy Day September 8, 2008
The celebration's theme for 2007 and 2008 is “Literacy and Health,” placing special focus on the vital relationship between literacy and health. We encourage participants to look at literacy and its links with general health care, nutrition, family and reproductive health and health-related community development. More... See Home News Tribune coverage of GLP's 2007 celebration here... |
Useful Research Getting Involved with GLP
For more information about the "Walk for Literacy" please click HERE.
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Global
Literacy Project Initiates Long Term Project in India Supporting
the Delta School of Nursing
2/2006.- The Delta School of Nursing was recipient of an inaugural donation of Nursing reference books. The school gives young women from the mainly agricultural groups in the state of Tamil Nadu an option to develop a viable career that benefits the entire community. More...
New Jersey State General Assembly Honors GLP March 5, 2002.- Assembly presents resolution commending community members for their participation in the Global Literacy Project. More... |
Cooperative Agreement Signed Between the GLP and Rutgers University's Cook College June 4, 2003 Agreement will facilitate volunteeris and Cook/NJAES donation of used/discarded educational materials to developing countries. More... |
GLP Library Voted "Best" by Kenyan Government September 8, 2004 Library wins trophy for the Best Community Learning Resource Centre. More... |
GLP Executives Inducted Into Alumni Hall of Fame September 24, 2004 Award to co-founders honors the achievements of graduates of African descent from Rutgers University. More... |
USA Partners Fountain Baptist Church Prizm-Project |
Global Research Partners |
Community Based Partners The Global Literacy Project, Inc.-PAMLO Scholarship
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