"What would the world look like if, every student traveled abroad before graduating high school?"
ETW International Service Program- ETW Youth Ambassadors travel abroad for a 2-week international enrichment service cultural excursion, facilitating youth -led activities for parentless children. These opportunities are life changing, and ETW Youth Ambassadors will directly discover value, a new pe
rspective, and purpose. ETW Architect Program- ETW Ambassadors are required to participate in monthly enrichment and volunteer service projects in Maryland, building up the community. History:
Encouraging the World (ETW) is a program of Fusion Partnerships, Inc., which was created by Cirron Lanier Greenidge in 2007 while he was interning in Cyprus, he had the opportunity to visit with many churches and communities and saw the need for encouragement throughout the world. Inspired by the teachings of Saint Paul, ETW has worked in orphanages, juvenile homes, schools, and churches throughout the world from Philippines to Palestine. Cirron was inspired to start Encouraging The World while climbing the Troodos Mountains in Cyprus. In Israel, we worked with the Al-Harah Theater Group and Contacting The World. ETW choreographed and co-directed Facehook?!, which is currently touring Europe and The Middle East, sharing the struggles and lives of young Arab youth through dance, music and drama. Encouraging The World launched several projects in the Philippines from 2011-2012, recruiting 50 volunteers from Thailand, Baltimore, Holland, and the Philippines to serve orphan and juvenile communities in Manila, General Santos, and Davao. We mentored youth and provided recreational relief. ETW also organized tree plantings; clothing drives, and hosted Libi Elementary School’s Nutrition month, feeding an indigenous community of 600 children and families in Malapatan. In 2013, ETW was incorporated and was founded to offer youth leadership and organizational skills, big brother support, provide English lessons, conflict-resolution workshops, dance, acting, sports, bible classes, planning special events and community revitalization projects, and more. Recently, Encouraging The World was presented with the 2013 Black Male Engagement Leadership Award. We also received a grant from The Knight Foundation to establish Encouraging The World in Baltimore, Maryland. People of this world we need to encourage one another. We need to travel and get out of our Comforts. We need to give and take care of the orphan and widow. We need to get in touch with who we were created to be. Vision for the Future
Our ETW International Service Program will send 4-6 youth from Baltimore to Haiti for two weeks, tentatively scheduled for June 20 - July 4, 2014. ETW is planning to build a multi purpose transitional facility for aged out parentless youth and troubled youth. PayPal
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