More on The Global Fund

            Today I will tell you about more of the interesting information I found on the website of The Global Fund (Global Fund, 2014). I will begin with what I had the most fun in learning, and that definitely is directly relevant to my current professional development. As I have continued to dig deeper into this organization I have found that I genuinely admire the work that they do. One of my discoveries this week is that they have books that they sell, and of course an amount of the profits are turned back to the foundation. I found the majority of them interesting and have actually gone onto Amazon Books and have purchased five of them. The ones that I chose had to do with multi-cultural kids and their art along with one book that walks you through a curriculum that has the class make up their own culture! I can't wait to get these in the mail! If you are interested you can go to The Global Fund website which is http://globalfundforchildren.org or you can go to Amazon and type Global Fund Books into the search bar.
            I didn't find anything that I felt was controversial but there was a photo story about Haiti. It is always such a shocking reminder of how well we have it here. Despite all of the hardship they have had to endure the majority of the photos were of people smiling! What resilience they must have.
           This website is very open about the amount of money that goes to grants to help children, how they come about the money and how it is disbursed. Even though I would not consider the foundation in the economic realm as the reason for the foundation I would say that it certainly fits into the financial piece of using money wisely and to the best advantage of the children. It would not be helpful to be short sighted and not be able to keep the foundation financially healthy.
            There were  a couple of other articles on the site that I enjoyed reading and would like to pass on. One was about a program they have called Creative Frames, this is were they celebrate the children's perspective's through technology media. The other article was on the impact and benefits of sports. There was a town in Ecuador that implemented their program that targeted 14 gangs and was successful in involving them in street soccer and the level of violent crimes took a huge dive.
            I have been enjoying this journey of following interesting information from all of the different sites that we have all picked. I hope I have enticed you to look at the this site, if not anything else check out the books, they would be a great multi-cultural addition to any early learning library.

Jennifer Pore`

The Global Fund for Children. (2014). Retrieved from
     http://www.globalfundforchildren.org on 03.23.2014.