Spring Break 2012

Funds donated through this page will automatically be split up evening amongst all of our student participants.  Alternatively, you can click on a student link below to donate directly to their effort!  Thank you for your kind support!

Global Community Engagement (GCE) is a non-profit organization that focuses on the developing world while encouraging community engagement, global citizenship and cross-cultural understanding among all people. Since 2000, GCE has worked with disadvantaged children in Santiago, Dominican Republic. Our vision supports that no child should have to live in conditions where his/her life is endangered and without hope for the future. We believe in having a responsibility to become aware of our ability to make the world a better place for all.

GCE established a chapter in Florida International University in 2007, allowing college students to devote their valuable time to raise funds to benefit children who have been vigorously hit by poverty. FIU students, among other initiatives, sponsor children at a local hospital, donate school supplies and develop educational programs that are then delivered to a local school. The college students’ main focus is on collaborating with Acción Callejera—an organization that seeks to teach the children, and the community at large, self-reliance by making clothing available to them, at affordable prices so that they are not forced to beg or steal. This organization also provides these children with medical, psychological, and educational services, while also providing them with a hot meal. FIU students will be developing educational programs to these children as well as taking them on a one day retreat where these children will be giving back the opportunity to be children and play, instead of their usual work day on the streets—a day that often times end with sleeping under a bridge. Service is not only being provided to underprivileged children as they receive genuine attention and hope for a better future, but also, FIU students are being serviced by the children as they begin to understand their role in our society.

We ask businesses, companies, and community members to contribute to the GCE mission of promoting productive citizens with a caring heart. GCE has continuously been successful in part because of the many donors that generously contribute to our project. We ask that those wishing to make a financial donation to GCE, make checks payable to Global Community Engagement. Any contribution is greatly appreciated. Donations are tax-deductible and an official GCE letter will be sent to all donors to be used when filing taxes.

If you have any questions regarding GCE, please do not hesitate to contact me at any time.

Sincerely,

Bianny Fernandez Senior Academic Advisor/GCE Advisor Undergraduate Education, PC 249 Florida International University 11200 SW 8th Street Miami, Fl 33199 Office: 305.348.0267 Fax: 305.348.2648

Walter Maldonado Senior Academic Advisor - Team Leader / GCE Advisor Academic Advising Center, PC 249 Division of Undergraduate Education 11200 SW 8th Street Miami, FL 33199 Phone: 305.348.0561 Fax: 305.348.2648