ETW Programs:

HISTORY

In 2007, Encouraging the World originated in the mind of its founder during a mountain hike in Cyprus. Since its conception, Encouraging the World (ETW) has worked in orphanages, juvenile homes, schools, and churches throughout the world.

ETW began in Bethlehem working with the Al-Harah Theater Group and Contacting the World. ETW choreographed and co-directed Facehook?!, currently touring the Middle East and Europe. This work aims to communicate the lives and struggles of Arab youth through music, dance, and drama.

ETW has launched several projects in the Philippines to serve orphan and juvenile communities, recruiting 50 volunteers from Thailand, Baltimore, Holland, and the Philippines. These projects included tree plantings, clothing drives, hosting a “Nutrition Month” for an elementary school, and feeding an indigenous community of 600 children and families.

In 2013, ETW was incorporated in Baltimore, Maryland and founded with a vision to offer youth volunteer community revitalization projects, awareness of global competence, international excursions, mentoring, youth leadership and conflict resolution programming.

In 2014, ETW Baltimore Youth served The Children's Light Ministries Orphanage and facilitated programming to support the build their home extension, hosted a youth sexual education workshop, and taught English to children 5 - 18 years old. ETW Baltimore Youth were empowered by facilitating and sharpening their leadership skills.

Encouraging the World was presented with:

2013 BMe Leadership Award

2014 Ambassador of Peace by the Universal Peace Federation


PROGRAMS

ETW Youth Board
- ETWYB consist of 8-10 youth. Supports ETW with decision making, youth engagement, and programming.

ETW International Service Program
- ETW Youth Ambassadors engage in local community and youth development programming for 1 year.
- ETWYA travel abroad for a 2-week international service enrichment excursion, facilitating youth -led activities for parent-less children and receive leadership training.

ETW Time
- Safe space where youth and community can discuss, create, and form relationships. Produce media, art, speeches, and performance art related works about their lives. Monthly community chosen chats about social, economic, race, arts...

PROGRAM GOALS

1. ETW Youth Board - To empower a selected group of youth to provide pathways for their peers to engage in positive relationships and opportunities.

2. ETW International Service Program - To expand and provide the ambassadors with a heighten awareness of global affairs and international economies by traveling.

3. ETW Time - To provide a safe space where youth and community can discuss, create, and form relationships. Produce media, art, speeches, and performance art related works about their lives.


Encouraging The World is a program of Fusion Partnerships, Inc..

Thursday, June 30, 2011

3 days of traveling...















Rogel, Liezel , Samir and Cirron Breakfast meeting at GES Airport
Going to meet Governor next week.

Tuna is a Big thing in Gensan
Tricycles - transportation


Our flights met in Manila, then split up to head to Gensan
Home


Liezel Tano is our gate keeper in this city. We have met the Army Commander and had a great first day on the base. He is building schools for about 16 schools in one year. We will go back and see how we can volunteer with his projects. It's 8:52 and I'm tired.






Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Good friends sponsored ETW today!


2nd day on my Malaria Pill.

We are NOW at $1329.00 USD






 42Bwy- NYC


Leonard G & Tik Townes-NYC

Monday, June 27, 2011

1 more day to take off


1st day on my Malaria Pill.

We are NOW at $1094.00 USD

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Thank you!

This coin is from Israel.

We are NOW at $1084.00 USD

JUNE SPONSORS

ANTONELLA PRESTIA - NYC
PRIVATE M - NYC
PRIVATE - AUSTRALIA
PRIVATE C - NYC
KARI BETTS - NY
JOSIE YAPOR - NY
CHERYLE STEVENS - NY
TRAN LE WONG - NY
TONY ADSON - MD
ERIC & BEVERLY ISAAC - MD
ROBERT NOVACK- NJ
DEMERRIS JOHNSON - MD
MATTHEW PACKARD -MD
ALAN & BONNIE ELIAS - NY
WENDELL & AMELETTE BOLTON - TN
UZELIA - MD
ANDRE MCRAE - MD
NICOLA WALLACE - MD
SHARON HARRIS - NY
JOYCE WILBURN - NY
REPERSHA BLACK - NY
MATT & KEISHA - NY


!THANK YOU!

Friday, June 24, 2011

ETW FEEDS LIBI ELEMENTARY - GOOD NEWS JULY 15th BE THERE!


We FundRAISED $989 USD.

Thank you!

We just increased our ETW feeding budget $50 more! Totaling $350.

Come Join us at the Libi Elementary School July 15th for our feeding program!

5 MORE DAYS TO TAKE OFF!

Thursday, June 23, 2011

HIS Desires became MINE.


God placed his dreams on my heart from when I was a child in Junior High School. The desire, to look after orphans and serve the poor. The intense emotions would flood my body in a raging rapid, white water, no rest. I've always had this connection. In a moments thought, his desire is upon me.
God has desires and is using me to gather people all over the world for a purpose of unity and discovery. All the plans are there but, there is something else that is waiting that my eyes and fears start to tear.

I'm out on faith again. I left my job. I haven't settled into Maryland (MD). My room, unfinished, I sleep on the floor on a mat that I enjoy, I eat oatmeal and peanut butter- not on the American diet. I dream of freeing people and flying many places, I don't live on my salary, I saved it for HIS desire.

After I accepted my move to MD. Well, I had no choice. It was meant for me to move here or else I would have been a liar. It was a hard move. As the kidney stones had bleed through my body, I felt like I was being ripped from my hearts desire. I wasn't ready to leave NYC because the teens were my life and ministry to unite. I was being moved, like the kidney stones inside of me, I didn't choose. This was the last of 3 stones that started to pass from my journey in Israel to NYC to MD, and now free of it - I go to the Philippines.

I cried out to not allow my stones to stand in the way of the oatmeal and peanut butter savings. Broken from this news that I had to pay thousands of dollars revealed to me that the oatmeal and peanut butter savings is and was to be used on serving the abandoned and poor who have little to no food.

I cry out as I type because I haven't accomplished what my eyes set out to do. From very young, I told myself, use all your talents to have a million dollar bank account. Do I have one? I do now, to impact on a scale unmeasured because of the sponge God made me. I was told, I was a SPONGE. I have so much, my views have changed, blessed beyond the American dream, we are only a few.

HIS dream became MINE and now it's coming true.
What are you going to do?




Written to you by: Cir-Ron

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

OUR RESULTS


We raised $859 USD!!
We raised 100 SHEKELS!
We raised 1,186 EURO!!


We Purchased Samir's Ticket!
Cirron purchased his Ticket, Visa, and more!
Samir ran 6 miles in Holland to raise money and he's using his personal savings.
We have $300.00 for our ETW Feeds Libi Elementary School Program!
We booked our hotel for JULY for 16,000 PESOS!
We purchased medicine and got our shots!
We are shipping gifts and supplies to St. Gemma and the HOPE Laguna Center.
We will purchase bikes as our main transportation in General Santos.

Need some help HERE..
We are working on our food budget, August living arrangements,
and want to increase our ETW Feeds budget to $500.


Please mail checks or money orders to:

Cirron Greenidge

97-11 Horace Harding Expwy # 1E

Corona, NY 11368

Attn: Encouraging The World -
Service Project Philippines 2011


ETW PayPal account - Encouragingtheworld@gmail.com






Friday, June 17, 2011

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

JUNE SPONSORS - THANK YOU!





JUNE SPONSORS

JOSIE YAPOR - NY
CHERYLE STEVENS - NY
TRAN LE WONG - NY
TONY ADSON - MD
ERIC & BEVERLY ISAAC - MD
ROBERT NOVACK- NJ
DEMERRIS JOHNSON - MD
MATTHEW PACKARD -MD
ALAN & BONNIE ELIAS - NY
WENDELL & AMELETTE BOLTON - TN
UZELIA - MD
ANDRE MCRAE - MD
NICOLA WALLACE - MD
SHARON HARRIS - NY
JOYCE WILBURN - NY
REPERSHA BLACK - NY
MATT & KEISHA - NY


!THANK YOU!


PLEASE SPONSOR USING PAYPAL AT ENCOURAGINGTHEWORLD@GMAIL.COM

Andre McRae commented on your video "Andre - Thank you for supporting Encouraging The World!! [HQ]".
Andre wrote: "Lol!!!! Thanks so much for Encouraging my world! Ur awesome! DRE"

Monday, June 6, 2011

Miracles happening in Israel to help support service project in the Philippines!


Samir t'lam sent this to me today.

Samir t'Lam June 6 at 4:28am Report
got new sponsor cirron, 100 dollars, the person came up to me and tolded me some one tolded me to give you this. So I dont know from who it was. God works in crazy ways...



Sunday, June 5, 2011

The Center of HOPE worldwide-Laguna - ETW Volunteers in August.

We will volunteer at the Center below in August!

The Center of HOPE worldwide-Laguna, is a treatment center for abused children in the Philippines, specializing in child sexual and physical abuse cases primarily. The center offers short-term and long-term residential care, treatment and placement meeting the holistic needs of each child.

Residential care is primarily conducted through a total family approach wherein each child is given a father and mother (house parents) and brothers and sisters structure. The treatment of each child is being handled by a multi-disciplinary case management team, offering a wide range of skills, including psychological and psychiatric assessment.

The Center of HOPE worldwide-Laguna, has a goal to see an abused child and their families become whole again in which they have attained social functioning in an environment where they interact constructively, have developed a sense of hope and that encourages the child and their families to succeed.

The community-based Centers of HOPE worldwide addresses problems such as child sexual abuse, children on the streets and child neglect. The Centers acts as a safe-harbor for children where trained full-time staffs gain access to at-risk children.

Centers of HOPE worldwide community-based have been in operation since 1996 in several urban poor communities like Baseco, Pier South Manila and Payatas, Quezon City.

Below are some general listings of the programs provided:

  • Drop-In Program
  • Day Care Program
  • Essential Nutrients Program
  • Food for Life Nutrition Program
  • Family Development Program
  • Community Bakery

I've purchased my own tickets to General Santos, Davao and Manila, Philippines. Airfare was about $2000.oo We still need people to sponsor us. We need help with our accommodations, food, children's supplies, gifts and health kit. We have a PayPal account.
Go to encouragingtheworld@gmail.com and sponsor us there.

We have our budget set for the feeding program at the Libi Elementary School after I did a presentation at the Hope Worldwide conference a few weeks ago. We are planning to feed about 600 students. Please pray for us as it is a hike to get there. Pray for safety and that God's glory falls fresh upon the communities hearts.

This is a volunteer project. NOBODY gets paid from this project. This is All from the Heart!