GEF Founder Attends FiSahara Film Festival on Int’l Day of the Girl
This month, Global Education Fund Founder, Eliza Woloson, joined Girl Rising Senior Producer and Creative Director, Martha Adams, for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! Along with press, film makers, and human rights activists, they attended FiSahara, an International film festival in the Sahrawi refugee camps in southwest Algeria. Together they joined the Sahrawi people on International Day of the Girl, October 11th, to show the film “Girl Rising.” Amidst a packed house of young people from the refugee camp, were...
Read MoreGEF Benefit Concert at the Fox on May 12
Join GEF at the Fox on May 12 for a benefit concert! About the Show Three amazing bands from the Boulder/Denver area are coming together to help raise funds for Global Education Fund! Join Koffi Togo Vibe, Lula Granji, and the Technicolor Tone Factory for a rockin’ show that will benefit GEF’s programs in Kenya, Guatemala, and India and help to raise awareness about our work. The all-ages show will be held on Sunday, May 12th (Mothers’ Day). Tickets are $15 and doors open at 7:30pm. Hear good music, have fun and support a great cause! Buy...
Read MoreKristin Wolf
Why I Give By Kristin Wolf Since meeting Todd and Eliza Woloson, founders of Global Education Fund, and being introduced to the work GEF is doing, it has been my honor to help support and spread the word about the organization. Global Education Fund puts learning opportunities directly into the hands of children who would otherwise not have them. This is powerful work. I cannot think of a more hopeful image than a child opening a book for the first time. From the moment they turn that first page, a door opens that can never be closed. Inside their new world are ideas, cultures, and frontiers...
Read MoreGuatemala Student Update: Meet Eliada
Margarita Eliada Mendoza is in the 3rd grade. She lives in the Ilóm neighborhood in the town of Chajul, Guatemala, not far from the Saber sin Límites library. Her parents represent the majority of adults in Chajul. Her father goes to work in the family’s small field every day. He tends the corn and cuts wood which he carries home on his back because the family cannot afford a horse. Like most women in Chajul, Eliada’s mom is a housewife. She spends her days at home taking care of her children, cleaning, making tortillas, and weaving guipiles...
Read MoreGEF Names New Executive Director
In line with Global Education Fund’s strategic plan to increase our impact on children living in poverty around the world, the GEF board of directors promoted Karen Ashmore to serve as its Executive Director. Karen joined the GEF team in 2011 with over 25 years of experience in social change philanthropy. She has won awards for her activism in human rights education and women’s issues, and previously served as Executive Director of the Lambi Fund of Haiti. With this experience, including raising over $25 million for rights-based organizations around the world, Karen is well suited to...
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