Brazil/Haiti (2016/2018)

It has always been GGP's goal to expand our reach to one new country each year, so in our second and fourth year we collaborated with the NGO Foundation TOYA, a literacy organization located in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. After careful assessment two girls were chosen to join our scholar from Brazil, to travel to the U.S. in January 2016.  Both girls were so excited for this opportunity, but unfortunately, due to political issues that affected immigration policies GGP was unable to secure tourist visas for our two Haitian scholars.  Instead, our Director travelled to Port-au-Prince and worked collaboratively with Foundation TOYA to deliver our 16 class curriculum to the girls directly. Our scholars worked tirelessly to implement their community service projects, that were developed during these training sessions with GGP. One scholar facilitated a Mural project with a group of teens from her community to teach them basic art skills and to beautify their low-income neighborhood.  The other scholar implemented a weekly discussion group with younger children from her community, to talk about and address gender inequality issues within Haiti.  GGP was absolutely blown away by the determination of Sarah and Jessy!