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Global Family Net Work Mission |
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Friday, 06 April 2007 |
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Global Family NetWork's Mission:
Global Family Net Work (Global Fam) provides resources and
educational opportunities to communities and
individuals across cultural and geographic barriers to
collaborate and create better lives for themselves and
each other.
Global Fam was founded in 2007 by Mic Crenshaw and Morgan
Delaney in Portland, Oregon. Both have backgrounds in
Education, Art, Social Justice activism, and were actually introduced by mutual students in 2004.
Global Fam has initiated a regional tour to schools and
community centers in the Pacific Northwest, as well as
a series of Hip-Hop concerts headlined by socially
conscious rap group, Dead Prez. Proceeds from the
concert and other fund raising will go to the African
Youth Initiative Network (AYINET), a youth advocacy
group in Africa. Global Fam has received a computer
grant from Free Geek and laptops from CTL, and will be shipping the
computers to AYINET. The computers will be put to use
in Rwanda and Burundi of the Great Lakes region in
Africa where AYINET is conducting peace initiatives.
In organizing these projects, Global Fam is partnered with
the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC),
Education Without Borders (EWB), Boss Up, Inc. as well as other
local activists, artists and educators throughout the
Northwest.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 29 July 2007 )
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