Haiti
We mobilized on the south coast of Haiti after the January earthquake, and have since rebuilt two schools - while providing clean water systems to hundreds of families - and we're just getting started...
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Uganda
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Literacy in Laos
We went looking for a project in the streets of Laos, and came across a small public library. Books were scarce, but the librarian had some great ideas but needed help to get books to the rural areas - we found our project in Laos!
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Nepal
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Bonfil Orphanage
Just
outside Cancun, Mexico, there is a small orphanage called "Casa Hogar
Esperanza". This "House of Hope and Faith" is run by Asencio and Esther
Mancilla who started this home nearly 20 years ago when someone left an
infant on their doorstep.
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Back to School
Inspired
by Jeff Scott, our Cambodian Back to school program was able to expand
to become a resounding success. 120 children are now in school, families
are becoming self-sustaining, and we were lucky enough to facilitate
it.
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Loscarasucias Children's Home
Global
Colors board member Joy Haynes went to Argentina and while there
decided to do a little Guerrilla Aid. In a short amount of time she
met every immediate need of a children's home outside of Buenos Aires.
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Women Fuelwood Carriers
Just
outside of Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, there are women who
hike roughly 18 miles a day collecting wood to be sold in the market.
The weight of the packs they carry can be up to 70 lbs. - close to the
weight of some of the women - and they do it all for about $2.
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Development in Gardening
We
partnered with an amazing organization, Development in Gardening (DIG),
to create vegetable gardens next to hospitals in Africa.We worked at
Hospital Fann in Dakar, Senegal, and created something so unique it
brought First Lady Laura Bush to visit.
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Cows for the Maasai
After the September 11 attacks, the very poor people of the Maasai
banded together and raised enough money to buy fourteen cows - their
most prized possession -to give as a gift to America to help us heal.
We decided to go over and thank them by repaying the gesture...
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Jeff Scott
We were contacted by the friends and family of Jeff Scott to see if we
could do any sort of project in his memory, and so we set out to get to
know the man Jeff had become, and create a project work in his honor.
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CAA Envirotrade
Creative
Artists Agency (CAA) selected Global Colors to launch their
International Volunteer Vacation Program, having us take CAA employees
to Mozambique and South Africa for a reforestation and outreach project.
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UCLA at Angkor Thom
While
in Cambodia in 2005, we met a group of children being taken care of by
the monks near Temple Bayon in Angkor Thom just north of Siem Reap, and
they eventually became the inspiration to start Global Colors. It was
only fitting that our first project was to go back and thank them.
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