Global Sorority: Education and Community Fund

As our team gets ready for our trip to Lebanon in October and the region becomes more unstable, it’s interesting what goes through your mind and what your loved ones ask you to consider and reconsider.

When there we will be staying with families and visiting to the American Community school in Beirut and unnamed refugee camps daily, to work with the girls through our Elements of SUCCESS program, and help them to gear up for the Beirut Marathon of peace!

“In Lebanon there is one gunshot a year that isn’t part of a scene of routine violence: The opening sound of the Beirut International Marathon”

The girls in our program will also be participating in their own 5 and 10 K races! Because on this trip we have partnered with Sarah Jamison and Run4aCause who is helping us to fundraise and facilitate! We have connected with May Khalil the founder of the Beirut Marathon and will hopefully be interviewing her for our documentary series. Check out her amazing Ted talk here and learn about this amazing race!

Even though I understand why my loved ones are asking me not to go, once you have met girls living in real danger every day, who's circumstances would bring stinging tears to your eyes and you have heard their stories and seen all their shining possibilities, you realize how brave they are and how little we actually rick to help them!

If I knew that I could possible be raped on my way to the only water supply or toilet area in my township, if I knew that I would be grabbed teased and molested on my way to school each day that I left my slum village and was out of my parents sight, or if I knew that my fate was to get married at 13, even though my hearts desire was to go to school and become a teacher and support my family. I might not be able to do it! I’m not brave like that at all!

But I can certainly get myself on an airplane and deliver life altering tools and knowledge to girls who deserve for us to care, they deserve to be heard and acknowledged for how amazing they are and to have a light shone on their value and possibility in the world. 

With your help Global Sorority has been able to visit 6 different countries outside of North America, to bring self-esteem, self-awareness, emotional intelligence, critical thinking skills and leadership education to girls, along with resources to help them stay in school.

Every time you make a donation to Global Sorority programming you enabling a fully volunteer staff to dedicate their time and sometimes risk their personal safety to reach a population of beautiful, inelegant, valuable human beings who hold the potential to change their lives, communities, and countries if we give them a fighting chance!

From now through September 10, a generous donor is providing a one-time, 100% match for all new recurring donations on GlobalGiving. Whether big or small, the gift you make today will have twice the impact.

So don't wait, double your donation and support a girl somewhere in the developing world to make a difference and change the world!

Warmly 

Tia Kelly 

P.S. Do you love to run? Stay tuned for your opportunity to run or walk with us the day of the race November 9^th no matter where you are in the world you’ll get to add your miles to our campaign with your Fit Bit, Run Keeper or other tracking devises,  

P.P.S As a way to reach more women who care about making this world a better place I have produced a speaker series called Women Changing the World with 30+ dianamic speakers. If you'd like to check it out you can here http://bit.ly/1pp0yvH

P.P.P.S We have a new website! it's still under some construction but please come check it out and say hi!:) www.globalsorority.com