One of the illustrations from our upcoming book - More Than One Voice
Happy July folks! If you’ve been following us online on social media, you know great things are happening on the book front. We’ve been sharing glimpses of some of the illustrations created for the stories by our eight young authors - the visuals are stunning. We are so lucky to have the talented Paloma Marinheira volunteer to design these images for us. She also recently shared why she got involved in this project and how you can too. Check out her short quick video about her involvement and why we need your support.
We have less than two weeks to meet our fundraising goals to not only get this book published and out in the world but also create some economic independence for our authors. This is our ONLY special project fundraising this year because of the pandemic so every little bit helps. As we head into July, we hope you will consider donating to our nonprofit and especially to our book project “More Than One Voice”. You can hear more on the book through this online chat here with board member Evette Franklin as well as tune in to a more detailed background from our director as to why we are working on this book.
In other news, we are super excited to announce our new partnership for our Blended Learning Programme with Madrasati, an amazing organization that works with the Ministry of Education and the Queen of Jordan to run programming for disadvantaged young people throughout Jordan. We will start working with them in a school close to the Syrian border running our Blended Learning Programme with both Jordanian and Syrian girls. That will be launching in September along with our partners Skateistan in South Africa and Afghanistan and our partners BestSpring in Nigeria and Foundation TOYA in Haiti.
Our Nigerian partners are pushing ahead in this difficult time of losing their director Aramide. The girls have decided to channel this loss as inspiration to push them forward to do even better and to live Aramide’s dream of being able to grow Global Girl Project within Lagos. They will be launching their large-scale community event on July 18, focused on issues related to waste management and street pollution.
We are always extremely proud to highlight the amazing things that our graduates are doing around the world in continuing their journey as leaders and community shifters and changers. One of our 2018 graduates who is from Kathmandu, Nepal has acquired a job creating care packages for those that are less fortunate and affected by the COVID-19 crisis. Way to go!
So, you know the plan of action now. Head straight to this link here and donate. If you cannot donate, then share. Either way, we are immensely appreciative of your support.
Much gratitude,
Julia Lynch, Founding Director.