Global Community Partners: Fund-raising etc.

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Fund-raising etc.

As mentioned in my previous blog entry, I have been working on raising funds for our upcoming projects primarily through jogging but the weather has not been very cooperative. After a month of being sick and sick of the cold, I am attempting to return to my fund-raising jogs. I have a few sponsors who are sponsoring me per mile for every run that I complete on runs that are at least 3 miles. I managed to get in only two runs in February thanks to the polar vortex, bombogenesis, and a severe cold. But March will see a return in more runs and hopefully I can go back to the mileage I was posting before everything went downhill with the sickness and the weather. So if you would like to sponsor me, send me a message! Of course, if you would rather just donate without having to keep track of my miles, that is always welcome too. :)

So what am I raising funds for? I am working on two projects: 1) a medical mission trip to Nigeria, and 2) an educational program for Syrian refugee children. The medical mission trip to Nigeria is in partnership with a classmate who is organizing a group of medical professionals to head to Nigeria in June; these professionals will, in collaboration with a team of local professionals, provide medical services to some remote towns in the Anambra state of Nigeria. The people who live in these remote towns do not have access to regular medical services and as a result are experiencing a lot of loss. Any funds raised will go towards purchasing necessary medication, equipment, transportation, and lodging while the team is there for two weeks.

The second project is actually our first target project back as GCP. We have some paperwork to get out of the way but we will do what we can to move forward and get this project into gear. We will be creating a program to provide education for refugee children who currently have limited or no access to education as a result of being displaced. Our goal is to get things into motion this summer so that the program can be implemented this fall. We are also raising funds to get this project started. Funds raised will go towards filing of documents, program costs, and transportation for a team to travel to the areas where these displaced children and their families currently live.

So please prayerfully consider supporting us in either (or both) of these projects. And of course, prayers are always always needed. If you would like more information or have any questions, feel free to email me! Thanks!

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Our Vision

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.
Targeted beneficiaries will ultimately be children, but beneficiaries will also include the community around these children – families, immediate and extended, as well as other adult community members. Activities that GCP will undertake include research, program development, and implementation of programs as well as monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of program.