GLOBAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT (GCD) is a US based, non-confessional, apolitical and independent non-profit organization supporting sustainable development initiatives. Global Community Development works to build a fair and more equitable world, aiming to end global poverty. We support and implement projects that give the opportunity for healthy, self sustainable living, while in harmonious balance with the environment. We support projects that give opportunities to communities around the world, for a higher sustainable standard of living. We believe that education is the cornerstone that enables us as individuals rich or poor, to become self aware, and provide the opportunity to assume responsibility for our own living experience and our affect upon our environment. We work to generate changes, by educating, supporting, and implementing projects that foster moral, physical, mental, spiritual, social, and environmental improvements within ourselves, each-other, and the world.
EACH OF US CAN CONTIBUTE FROM OUR EMEDIATE LIVES TO CREATE A MORE “BALANCED” WORLD.
CHANGE IN OUR BEHAVIOR TO BECOME RESPONSIBLE CONSUMERS, SUPPORTING BUSINESSES THAT PROMOTE “FAIR TRADE”, AND “ECO-FRIENDLY” PRODUCTS.
CONSUMPTION AND DEMAND OF ORGANIC, UNPROCESSED, LOCALLY PRODUCED FOOD.
CREATE AN ATMOSPHERE OF SOLIDARITY BY TEACHING OUR CHLDREN HUMAN VALUES THROUGH GUIDED EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING AND BY SERVING AS EXAMPLES FOR THE IDEALS OF LIBERTY, JUSTICE, SOLIDARITY, AND ETHICAL BEHAVIOR. EMPHASIZE HUMAN RIGHTS AS A CODE OF UNIVERSAL CONDUCT.
EXPOSE SOCIAL INJUSTICE AND PREACH HUMAN RIGHTS IN A CLEAR AND PROFESSIONAL MANNER BY ANY MEANS AVAILABLE TO US, SUCH AS PUBLICATIONS, IN SCHOOLS, UNIVERSITIES AND SOCIAL EVENTS.
EXPOSE ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICE. SEEK, SHARE AND PROMOTE RENEWABLE ENERGY, AND SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS.
EXPOSE MEDICAL INJUSTICES. BECOME EDUCATED AND DEMAND “PREVENTATIVE MEDICINE” AS PART OF OUR HEALTH SYSTEM,
BECOME RESPONSIBLE BEINGS, BY CARING FOR OUR-SELVES, EACHOTHER AND THE WORLD.
SEEK TO GROW, AND DEVELOP WAYS TO REDUCE OUR NEGATIVE IMPACT ON THE WORLD.
SEEK TO HELP THOSE THAT CAN’T HELP THEMELVES BY ABELING THEM RATHER THAN DIS-ABELING THEM.
Our Vision
We believe that education, implementation and support are major keys to progress.
We strive to put necessary effort, and to give full support in progressive development of the Global Community.
Through experiential education, bringing about awareness, and by making responsible choices with technology, medicine, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, tourism and high functioning communication, we can all progress into a higher standard of living. We can all be sustained by the Earth’s natural recycled resources, preserving our Planet.
We are co-creators of the world. What we think and do, affects the reality of the whole.
The Human Right to be Free from Poverty Includes
The human right to safe drinking water
The human right to live in adequate housing
The human right to be free from hunger
The human right to a healthy and safe environment
The human right to receive protection from violence
The human right to be free of gender or racial discrimination
The human right to participate in shaping decisions that affect oneself and ones community
The human right to work and receive wages that contribute to an adequate standard of living
The human right to primary health care and medical attention when needed
The human right to education
Progress is the Law of Nature. Progress is a natural right granted to all.
St. Augustine -Kardec
The human right for children to develop in an environment appropriate for their physical, mental, spiritual, moral and social development. U.N
The human right to live in dignity, free from want, is itself a fundamental right, and is also essential to the realization of all other human rights—rights that are universal, indivisible, interconnected and interdependent. U.N
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MOM-WOW PROJECT
MOMO/WOW-project stands for “Magic Organic Meals/ World of Wisdom.” It is a pilot program designed by Global Community Development a non-profit organization, to implement organic, wholesome in school lunch programs, supporting local farms, with a self- sustainable organic coop system and an emphasis for nutritional education through “experiential learning.”
This year 2008, our students have chosen “Global Warming” to be our Solidarity Cause, promoting renewable energy consumption, supporting sustainable agriculture with organic farming, bringing about increased environmental awareness, and supporting alternative/preventative medicine as part of our Health protocol. The students hope to reach out, and support behavioral changes in our lives that will contribute to the preservation of a “Healthy Planet”. It is just as important to take care of our inner environment as it is our outer environment. We are a reflection of our world and our world is a reflection of ourselves.
