Seattle Foundation and GiveBIG sponsors will match a share of EVERY contribution given to Global Visionaries on June 23rd, 2011 Global Visionaries is excited to announce that on Thursday, June 23rd, The Seattle Foundation will kickoff GiveBIG—a community-wide giving challenge to benefit King County nonprofits. GiveBIG is a newly implemented, one-day, online charitable giving event to inspire people… [Read more…]
April 27, 2011
by Valerie Lopez Dāna, Tzedakah, Zakat, Charity. The act of generosity towards the most vulnerable is so deeply-rooted and universal in world religions and cultures, we can only conclude that charity must be a human impulse, if not a societal one. But the simple act of giving might not actually be so simple. Physician-anthropologist Paul… [Read more…]
April 27, 2011
Greetings Parents and GV Supporters, I can’t believe we’re already in the second part of our trip. Semana Santa culminated with a bang, literally, as we were all awakened at dawn on Easter Sunday by celebratory fireworks. The end of the week also meant the end of language school. Students wrote thank you speeches in… [Read more…]
April 26, 2011
Watch GV students particpate in this year’s reforestation project. The students on the 2011 Spring Trip are hard at work, creating social and environmental justice through their service projects in Guatemala. The video below displays GV students who are participating in this year’s reforestation project, working side-by-side with Guatemalan youth to recreate the biodiversity destroyed by… [Read more…]
April 26, 2011
Reagan Jackson, GV Program Manager, Sends Third Update from 2011 Spring Trip to Guatemala Saludos desde Guatemala! Greetings Parents and GV Supporters, Today was Good Friday, the holiest day of the Catholic calendar. The crucifixion of Christ was commemorated all over the world, but especially in Guatemala. Antigua hosted the largest celebration in the country and… [Read more…]
April 24, 2011
Watch GV students sorting, washing, and depulping coffee in Guatemala. The students on the 2011 Spring Trip are hard at work, creating social and environmental justice through their service projects in Guatemala. The video below displays GV students who are participating in this year’s coffee work team, working side-by-side with Guatemalan youth.
April 22, 2011
Global Visionaries Program Manager, Reagan Jackson, Sends Another Update from Guatemala Buenas Tardes Parents and GV Supporters: It is another gorgeous day in Guatemala, warm with a nice breeze. Today I woke up at 6:00am just as the sun was cresting the hills. Hot coffee and a plate of spicy black beans and eggs scrambled… [Read more…]
April 20, 2011
Reagan Jackson, GV Program Manager, Writes to the GV community Describing the 2011 Spring Trip Thus Far. Dear Parents/Guardians and GV Supporters, We arrived in Guatemala and went directly from the airport to the Guatemala City Dump—the largest and most toxic in Central America. For experienced GV staff like Chris Fontana, Mario Flores, Aurelio Hernandez , and Noah Ziechner,… [Read more…]
April 20, 2011
On Saturday, May 14, Global Visionaries will host the Fiesta de Guatemala Auction Gala at South Seattle Community College’s Brockey Hall. The event will serve as a fundraiser, through which we hope to raise $130,000 to support our programs. We would like to extend an invitation to the entire GV community. This year’s gala will… [Read more…]
April 13, 2011
Written by Camron McDonald On March 15, 2011 more than 1,000 police and soldiers showed up in the Polochic Valley of Northern Guatemala. They were there to evict more than 3,000 Q’eqchi Maya Indians living on land claimed by a Guatemalan agribusiness firm. Many of these families have been living on and tending to this… [Read more…]
April 30, 2011
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