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Bonfil Orphanage Just outside Cancun, Mexico, there is a small orphanage called "Casa Hogar Esperanza". This "House of Hope and Faith" is run by Asencio and Esther Mancilla who started this home nearly 20 years ago when someone left an infant on their doorstep. |
Back to School Inspired by Jeff Scott, our Cambodian Back to school program was able to expand to become a resounding success. 120 children are now in school, families are becoming self-sustaining, and we were lucky enough to facilitate it. |
Loscarasucias Children's Home Global Colors board member Joy Haynes went to Argentina and while there decided to do a little Guerrilla Aid. In a short amount of time she met every immediate need of a children's home outside of Buenos Aires. |
Women Fuelwood Carriers Just outside of Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, there are women who hike roughly 18 miles a day collecting wood to be sold in the market. The weight of the packs they carry can be up to 70 lbs. - close to the weight of some of the women - and they do it all for about $2. |
Development in Gardening We partnered with an amazing organization, Development in Gardening (DIG), to create vegetable gardens next to hospitals in Africa.We worked at Hospital Fann in Dakar, Senegal, and created something so unique it brought First Lady Laura Bush to visit. |
Cows for the Maasai After the September 11 attacks, the very poor people of the Maasai banded together and raised enough money to buy fourteen cows - their most prized possession -to give as a gift to America to help us heal. We decided to go over and thank them by repaying the gesture... |
Jeff Scott We were contacted by the friends and family of Jeff Scott to see if we could do any sort of project in his memory, and so we set out to get to know the man Jeff had become, and create a project work in his honor. |
CAA Envirotrade Creative Artists Agency (CAA) selected Global Colors to launch their International Volunteer Vacation Program, having us take CAA employees to Mozambique and South Africa for a reforestation and outreach project. |
UCLA at Angkor Thom While in Cambodia in 2005, we met a group of children being taken care of by the monks near Temple Bayon in Angkor Thom just north of Siem Reap, and they eventually became the inspiration to start Global Colors. It was only fitting that our first project was to go back and thank them.
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SCHOOLS AND CLEAN WATER  We wanted to help after the earthquake in Haiti, but didn't quite know what to do -- so we just went to figure it out.
Now, our disclaimer is that we've been doing this sort of thing for a long time, and definitely don't recommend travel to a disaster area - unless you are properly trained and have a specific group to meet and work with. That being said, after making all the necessary arrangements, we arrived in Jacmel and started looking around.
We were incredibly fortunate to have made contact with an amazing group living and working in Jacmel before we arrived, and made lifelong friends with the Pyes and Mangines at Joy in Hope. While there, Global Colors founder Barton Brooks wrote about these amazing people and their invaluable help to our efforts - highlighted in this article at Oprah.com.
We began our search in Jacmel and quickly realized that clean water was by far the greatest immediate need. We started asking around, and while working at the airport met a representative from a company that built and distributed personal water filters from the Dominican Republic. We put out the call and within a week placed our order for filters - hundreds of families would get sustainable clean water within a few weeks!
While working with Sarah Wallace to distribute clean water filters in Cité, we came across a school that had been completely destroyed. After learning that it had no government support and no funds to rebuild (but had a willing community and teachers), we decided to take on the project.
We set out to raise funds to complete this school, and within a few weeks we were under construction - actually finishing in record time with the help of numerous volunteers and locals. This school will serve hundreds of children during the day, will be a community center in the afternoons and evenings, and will be a shelter for families who lost their homes to sleep in at night.
 We have since completed a second building under the same model - more kids in school and providing another community with a safe place to gather and sleep.
For those of you who have ever doubted the ability of one person (or a small group of people) to change the world - after a billion dollars was raised for Haiti (with you helping us raise a mere .00025 of that), our school in Cité was the first to be rebuilt and reopen in the entire country.
Yes, a small group of people can make a big difference - we owe a huge thank you to our dear friends and partners in Jacmel - Nick and Gwenn Mangine, Danny and Leann Pye, Sarah Wallace, and our on site volunteers Andrew Treleaven and Ryan Seguin - as well as all of you who contributed to make it possible...
We can all work together to create a better world...
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