Global Community Partners: May or May Not?

Friday, May 16, 2008

May or May Not?

A May activities/news/event update:

We had a Board meeting in April to keep our Board members up-to-date on what is happening with summer plans, preps, and activities as well as fund-raising and some administrative issues. In attendance were all our Board members and Sylvia Chung, who serves currently as the link between Board and staff. Thanks Sylvia!

Our fund-raising is underway, with donations coming in as well as change being collected. As mentioned in previous entries, one of fund-raising effort is called Provide "change" for Malawi (one community at a time). We are asking that you collect all that change (pennies and nickels, and others if you would like to add them) that jingle and jangle in your pocket but never seem to really get used unless you make a real conscious effort. It may not be much but with everyone adding up their spare change, we are aiming to raise $600 to create a soccer field for high school youth at Kings Victory Academy in Blantyre, Malawi. This is a high school where I will be volunteering/facilitating a couple of workshops, and would like to leave them with something more tangible. Many of the high school students are orphans - losing family members/parents to HIV/AIDS.

For those of you who live in the greater Los Angeles area, we will be collecting the change the first Sunday in June (June 1st) at L.A. Ye-Bon Church in Atwater Village. If you cannot bring it then, I will be there again on either June 15th or 22nd (I will confirm next month) so you can give it to me then. For those of you who live elsewhere and still would like to contribute to this, you can take your change to the nearest supermarket (do they have these machines in supermarkets elsewhere? I know they do in Los Angeles....) or perhaps the bank, and get it counted. You can then either send the $ or a check for the $ to Global Community Partners at: 10329 Fernglen Avenue, Tujunga, CA 91042. If you are mailing your $, it must be received by July 4th. Thanks!!

Another fund-raising event we're having is a yard sale: We are planning a yard sale in the middle to late June in Los Angeles. If you have stuff you don't need any more but don't want to throw away, donate it to our yard sale! Sylvia will be collecting these things on June 1st as well (in addition to the change) at L.A. Ye-Bon church. Contact us if you need the address. If you don't live in the greater Los Angeles area but want to contribute, be creative - spread the word to your friends and family! Hold your own yard sale, bake sale, or anything else you can think of. :) All your help is truly appreciated!

I am also working on a new fund-raising proposal and avenue through this website here. Please visit and make sure you vote for our proposal as it requires 72 more votes to deem it "worthy" of actual fund-raising, and our deadline is May 19th! This is not a financial obligation; your vote simply indicates that you believe it is a worthwhile proposal. Once it receives the required number of votes(by May 19th!), then it can go into the actual fund-raising phase. This site is visited by numerous people so the proposal will come up in search results and then people can decide if they want to donate to this project or not. So, if you can go there and put in your vote please, I'd really really appreciate it!!! Again, this is fund-raising for the high school in Malawi, mentioned above. This proposal is actually for providing school fees for orphans and contributing to the costs of repairing/renovating/adding to the school buildings (classrooms, bathrooms, and such). There's more information on the site.

Sorry this all sounds a bit disjointed, but that's a bit like my past couple of weeks. Thanks for reading and voting though!!

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Global Community Partners’ vision is to build partnerships in developing community around children all over the world. Supporting this vision are our guiding values that are integral to our organization. All our guiding values are based upon a way of work and life as followers of Jesus. We are a Christian organization that believes in one God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and believe further that Jesus lived, died, and rose again. We believe that Jesus is an integral part of our lives and in Him, we see the example of how we are to care for those around us. Our work is guided by the following principle beliefs:

Children’s Rights

- We believe that children are vitally important to the improvement of our future. As delineated in the UN Convention of Children’s Rights and other such documents, children have rights that must be valued and protected, particularly in those places where poverty and crises exist.

Child-focused Community

- We believe that his/her environment, immediate, and removed, influences every child. Therefore, focus on children must also include education of the immediate community and raising the awareness of the global community. We believe in providing tools for the immediate and global communities through education, support, and training.

Community Partnership

- We believe in partnerships, partnerships with existing communities to help build a stronger, empowered community that can in turn help empower their children. We believe in building relationships in these communities and we believe in long-term goals rather than short-term goals, or one-time trainings, meaning that we are willing to work on an on-going basis with communities to provide input, education, and training on a long-term and on-going basis. These community partnerships include governmental organizations, non-governmental organizations, and other entities.

Respect for Culture

- We respect the cultural diversity of the global community and therefore believe in working with each community on an individual basis to incorporate cultures and traditions in coming up with a viable way to improve community. We believe in being responsible and maintaining respect for the communities we work with, the culture, the traditions, and the environment.

Overall Principle

- We believe that people, particularly children and their families, are integral and central to our work and to that end, we commit to uphold these guiding principles in the presence of God and of each other. We believe that there is no substitute for the manner in which we think, work, and live and our commitment to these guiding values must be evident in our interaction with each other, the communities we work with, and the global community at large.
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