Building Resilience
Last week, I received a very interesting article from Georgia Center for Nonprofits (GCN) in my email inbox. We have come to rely greatly on GCN’s expertise and guidance in my years at GVP, and I am thankful that GCN is such a strong voice and leader for local nonprofits. This particular article, written by…
Read MoreThe Power of Reading
Last night in bed, I was looking over my Facebook feed and saw another great post from A Mighty Girl. I love seeing and reading what they put out on social media and then sharing that with my friends online. Through their posts, I have learned the stories of powerful women that I might otherwise…
Read MoreFarewell to Amy Pun, Form 1 Newcomer Teacher
Written by Anne Garbarino in collaboration with Katie Fowler Amy naturally possesses a seemingly unending well of patience and love. She radiates a calm and positive, can-do attitude and transfers her warmth to her students every day. She is their guide, providing the structure and routine needed to see and understand the sort of incremental…
Read MoreCredo for a Pandemic: A Call for Inclusion
Inclusion is an essential value during this pandemic time in our world. Inclusion is the valuing of the perspectives and contributions of all people and ensuring a safe, affirming, respectful and responsive environment. A guiding principle for co-existence in our society, it is uniquely profound at this moment in time. Global Village Project is a…
Read MoreOur Capacity to Dream
This morning I had a hard time getting out of bed. When my alarm went off, I was deep in a dream and wasn’t certain if the alarm was real or part of my strange dream. I know that we all dream as humans, but I am not one to typically remember my dreams. Usually,…
Read MoreGVP Delivers Food to Families During Crisis
At 9:15 am on a bright Friday morning, Denise Reidy-Puckett and Crispin Ilombe Wilondja are loading over a hundred bags of food into the Global Village Project bus with help from volunteers. By this time of day in pre-pandemic life, Crispin would usually have already finished driving his bus route to take students to school,…
Read MoreTeam Effort and Tech Make for Remote Learning Success
In a game of charades via Zoom, Ms. Anne Garbarino mimes brushing her hair to evoke a character from the fairy tales learning unit. “Rapunzel!” come the triumphant shouts from across a grid of students video calling into the class. A student goes next, borrowing a chair to use as a prop so that she…
Read MoreGVP Family Sews Masks for Healthcare Workers
While businesses have shuttered and people are staying at home, Yaser and Barwin Musa have not been idle. The Syrian couple, parents to multiple current and past GVP students, have been hard at work making masks for healthcare workers since COVID-19 cases in Georgia began to climb. A professional tailor, Yaser sews up to 50…
Read MoreRising Scholars Engage in Service and Leadership
“People feel better and comfortable when they feel loved,” says a Global Village Project student. In a virtual meeting, the students of GVP’s inaugural Rising Scholars Society are brainstorming about the objectives of their service project. The students have decided to focus on initiatives related to advocacy and awareness now that the possibilities of a…
Read MoreRole Models and Trail Blazers
In January 1986, I was a fourteen-year-old girl, almost exactly the same age on average as our students at GVP, and I can vividly recall watching the Space Shuttle Challenger lift off at Cape Canaveral on a Tuesday morning at school. We all watched with excitement, and then time seemed to slow, as we started…
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