One City One Learning Resources Center in Guinea

Since our last reporting period, GAED has accomplished a great deal in regards to the LRC project. Of our many initiatives,  we have hosted two events to promote and fundraise for the project. The main event took place on February 18, 2017 at Widener University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. We chose to host an event out of state in order to expand our audience and support base. As an organization, we presented to the audience the purpose, goals, and aims of the Learning Resources Center (LRC) project. We also played our promotional video , which GAED and a CCML representative created and completed in February. (The video has been linked to this report). Overall, this event was a success. We were able to network with many people, gain more support for our project and organization, diversify our audience, and raise money.

GAED was successfully able to make a payment towards the renovation of the first LRC located in Conakry, Guinea. The learning center will be complete and ready for use by April 23, 2017, the opening ceremony day of the Conakry World Book Capital Event.

We are very pleased and excited by the success and progress of this project. We would like to thank everyone who has assisted us out at our various events and who have and promoted and donated to our project.              

Thank your continued support and interest in GAED & CCML’s Learning Resources Center Project. Without your help, we would not have been able to make it this far along

Links:

• One City One LRC video

GAED is grateful for the donations that it has received so far for the Learning Resources Center (LRC) project.  

In accordance with, Conakry Capital Mondial du Livre (CCML), both organizations have been working hard to inform people about the details of this LRC project. One of our main promotional initiatives has been conducting informational sessions open to the public. The first informational session took place October 13^th, 2016 at the George Washington University located in Washington, D.C. At this event, multiple speakers came to discuss education in Africa and the advantage of having learning resource centers in Guinea.  At this event, we also sold our project t-shirts as well as held a small silent auction, in addition to accepting donations. We were honored to have various distinguished guests in attendance such as a representative from the Guinean Embassy in the U.S. and Miss Guinea North America. Our next informational event is scheduled to be held in January 2017 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

GAED is also excited to be producing a promotional video for the Learning Resources Center project. This video discusses the educational situation in Guinea, what exactly the learning resource center is and what it entails, as well as how the centers can benefit Guinean students and the Guinean society as a whole. We will be spreading this video through social media with hopes of reaching a larger audience around the globe. This video is scheduled to be released sometime in January 2017.

As for our next steps, GAED plans to continue promoting this project in efforts to raise more funds and reach our goal. 

Thank you all for your generosity and support. Please continue to follow us on this journey.