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The Global Village Fair is an event that is centered on accessibility and the exchange of knowledge through networking and exposure to active local NGO’s. These NGO’s have offered to table and or do a workshop at the conference regarding the Global Issue they are driven to take on as change makers. The Global Village Fair encourages and includes local student groups to be involved in this event as well. We encourage NGO’s and student groups to not only interact and exchange ideas with GIN participants but teachers, their fellow Global Village Fair NGO’s and student groups.
Africare is the oldest and the largest African-American led organization in the development field, and is a leader in development assistance to Africa. Since its founding in 1970, Africare has delivered more than $1 billion in assistance to millions of beneficiaries across the African continent. Africare’s staff has an unparalleled knowledge of the continent – its challenges and opportunities – and has nurtured valuable relationships with key figures ranging from community leaders and traditional authorities to presidents and prime ministers. Africare centers its development approach around active community participation and partners with local organizations to ensure institutional strengthening and capacity building. Africare’s coverage is among the widest and deepest of any organization working in Africa, representing more than 2,500 projects in 36 countries Africa-wide since inception.
Amigos de las Americas (AMIGOS) inspires and builds young leaders through collaborative community development and immersion in cross-cultural experiences. Since 1965, more than 25,000 people have become AMIGOS volunteers. Our programs are completely unique in offering comprehensive leadership training and real-life practices. AMIGOS combines this training with the complete immersion experience of living in Latin American communities. AMIGOS volunteers, high-school or college age, immerse themselves in the language and lives of their host communities, becoming collaborative participants in sustainable community development work with a lasting impression on all those involved. AMIGOS offers four to eight week summer and Gap Year programs.
AMIGOS is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.
Student Articles:
NGO Workshop: Amigos de las Americas by Juan Ruiz Pozuelo
NGO: Amigos de las Americas by By Rohan Subramanian and Tomas Medina Mora
Amnesty International is a global movement of people fighting injustice and promoting human rights. We work to protect people wherever justice, freedom, truth and dignity are denied. Currently the world’s largest grassroots human rights organization, we investigate and expose abuses, educate and mobilize the public, and help transform societies to create a safer, more just world. We received the Nobel Peace Prize for our life-saving work.
AAH is a 501(c)3, non-profit organization based in the United States that helps children in rural Uganda reach their full potential. We built a model school and two health clinics so that education and healthcare, local development, and community outreach could improve the quality of life and transform poor villages into self-sustaining communities. We do this by engaging a caring community of volunteers, child sponsors, donors, partners and friends in the United States, Uganda and throughout the world.
My name is Lunda Lalondi Vincente, and I am a congolese man in a refugee camp in Zimbabwe. I fled the violence that killed my entire family in Congo. As an artist I work collaboratively with Lony Kiza, my fellow refugee to produce powerful drawings on the topic of environmental protection. The drawings, essays, and poems lays out my voice of pleading to be heard. My artworks connects the destruction of my home, the annihilation of my family, my own hair’s-breath escape from being shot, the deforestation that robs the gorillas of our habitat- all that has impacted my life. My message to society is the basic needs of every person on earth should be met: Clean water, food, fuel to cook food with. I am urging others to stop, to look carefully at nature’s abundance, to care for the earth, our mother.
lundavincente.wordpress.com/my-artworks/
Building Tomorrow envisions a world where every child with a desire to learn has a safe, permanent and local place to do so. Working towards this goal, Building Tomorrow empowers young people to invest their resources, time and talents in providing students in East Africa with access to an education. Since Building Tomorrow’s founding in 2006, thousands of students across the US have raised over $600,000 for the construction of schools in rural Uganda, have developed a strong connection to their global community and have gained an understanding of the privileges and opportunities we so often take for granted.In Uganda, each school serves as a source of pride and a catalyst for change within the community. We have seen roads built, gardens harvested, scholarships funded, teachers organized, and housing constructed as a direct result of communities being empowered to help themselves.
Girls on the Run® is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to creating a world where every girl knows and activates her limitless potential and is free to boldly pursue her dreams.
Meeting twice a week in small teams of 8-20 girls, we teach life skills through dynamic, interactive lessons and running games. The 24-lesson curriculum is taught by certified Girls on the Run coaches and includes three parts: understanding ourselves, valuing relationships and teamwork and understanding how we connect with and shape the world at large.
The Latino Student Fund Scholarship Program was founded in 1994 in Washington, DC by community leaders, educators and parents who recognized the overwhelming need to combat school dropout rates in the Latino community by providing better access to educational opportunities. The Tutoring Program was founded in 1998 to provide supplemental academic support to at-risk and underprivileged Latino youth. The Listo and Listo Rapido college preparation courses for high school students were added to our list of program offerings in 2010. The LSF Access Program officially launched in the fall of 2011. The Latino Student Fund continues to modify and expand its program offerings to meet the changing needs of the Latino community.
Student Article:
NGO Workshop: Latino Student Fund by Giorgio Zampaglione
LearnServe International sparks high school students’ passion to make a difference and equips them with the knowledge, tools, and relationships to effectively drive local solutions to pressing global challenges.
We bring together students from all across the Washington, DC area and prepare them with the skills of business leadership, innovative problem-solving, and cross-cultural fluency. Then we challenge them to lead community-based change in their schools, across the DC region, and around the world.
Together we are building a new generation of global leaders and entrepreneurs poised to transform their communities.
Plan International USA is part of a global organization that works side-by-side with the men, women and children of communities in 50 developing countries to end the cycle of poverty. Our approach is to develop a plan with the community that promises a brighter future for the community and is ultimately carried out by the community. Community by community, Plan works to promise futures that are worthy of all children’s potential.
Founded over 70 years ago, Plan is a more-than $750 million organization often ranked among the top 10 international NGOs by reputation, size and scope. We work with communities to develop solutions to ensure long-term sustainability. Our level of community engagement, long-term outlook and constant focus on the needs and priorities of children is unique among international development organizations. Our solutions are designed up-front to be owned by communities for generations to come and range from clean water and healthcare programs, to education projects and child protection initiatives.
Plan’s projects are primarily funded through partnerships with institutions such as the U.S. government and private foundations, as well as via our child sponsorship program. The contributions of Plan International USA’s donors are multiplied many times over through the combined resources of supporters around the world, expanding and deepening the impact of our development programs on children and the communities where they live.
The Roots & Shoots program is about making positive change happen—for our people, for animals and for the environment. With tens of thousands of young people in more than 120 countries, the Roots & Shoots network connects youth of all ages who share a desire to create a better world. Young people identify problems in their communities and take action. Through service projects, youth-led campaigns and an interactive website, Roots & Shoots members are making a difference across the globe.
Student Articles:
Small People Looking to Make Big Change by Belen Edwards
Roots and Shoots: Introducing Geothermal Energy to WIS by Karina Cheah
The mission of the Tregaron Conservancy is to preserve, rehabilitate and maintain Tregaron Estate’s historic landscape that dates back to 1912. With thirteen acres of land in Washington, DC, placed into a conservancy as open green space never to be developed, the Tregaron Conservancy has been cleaning up and stabilizing a severely neglected and deteriorated landscape. The Conservancy is restoring this famous property, following the original maps and plans of Tregaron Estate’s renowned landscape architect Ellen Biddle Shipman, who was commissioned by prominent architect Charles Adams Platt.