Earth Train is an International Program dedicated to training and unifying the development leaders of the future. Located at the narrowest point of the western hemisphere, Earth Train's 14,000 acre Upland Rainforest Preserve sets the stage for a unique focus on sustainable development. Earth Train blends course work, home stays, and community specific field service to provide excellent coaching in a challenging multi-cultural environment. The Earth Train International Center draws students, aspiring professionals, educators, and prominent indigenous leaders into a learning community that promotes increased cross-cultural awareness and understanding of the challenges facing the developing world.
Launched by the producers of the award-winning documentary As We Forgive, Living Bricks is an initiative to restore hearts and homes in Rwanda following the destruction of the 1994 genocide. Living Bricks equips genocide perpetrators with the tools to build much-needed housing for their victims' families, establishing new villages where former killers and survivors live together again as neighbors through practical reconciliation. To date, over 10,000 ex-prisoners have asked for the supplies to build these houses of hope.
Since 1974, Wide Horizons for Children has placed over 10,000 children with adoptive families, and worked in more than 50 countries around the world. Building enduring relationships of trust and professionalism with their overseas partners has been key to their success in facilitating thousands of adoptions over the years. Currently, WHFC offers adoption programs in 12 countries: China, Colombia, Ethiopia, Guatemala, India, Kazakhstan, Korea, The Philippines, Russia, Taiwan, Ukraine, and the United States.
Drawn from Water, an Ethiopian based orphanage, houses children who have been relocated from local tribes whose beliefs and traditions can be a life threat to the children and tribe members deemed to have "mingi", alias a curse or bad omen. Drawn from Water has created a safe haven for those children at risk. The orphanage was formed in February 2009.
We believe that peace, security and respect for human dignity are inseparable. Our Mission is to build hope and empower communities afflicted by armed conflict and severe poverty. Our people-to-people initiatives integrate health, education, arts, and livelihood as a basis for community development and to create stability. Our goal is to develop programs as sustainable models that can be replicated globally.
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