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Month: June 2017

The Spirit of Hollybush Award Recipient

June 26, 2017

Fifty years ago this month, the Rowan community (then Glassboro State College), along with the Borough of Glassboro, hosted the Hollybush Summit, a two-day meeting between President Lyndon B. Johnson, Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin and their top advisors. Assembling in what was then the college president’s home, the leaders addressed some of the most pressing…

Meet Our Pioneer Students

June 14, 2017

See what YOU have accomplished with your generous donations to Good Shepherd SLF over the last 4 years. ..

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. – Aristotle

If you think you’re too small to make a difference, you haven’t spent a night with a mosquito. – African Proverb

The highest result of education is tolerance. – Helen Keller

One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen, can change the world. – Malala Yousafzai

Secondary school in Cameroon is not mandatory resulting in a large gap between school capacity and the number of potential students. You can help change that!

EDUCATION yields a larger impact than ANY other form of help or aid we can give to improving health, raising income, promoting gender equality, and reducing overall poverty.

For every year a child goes to school, HIV rates decrease, income potential and employment rates increase, girls marry later, early pregnancies decrease, and health is elevated for the entire family.

In Cameroon there is only one teacher for every 45.6 primary school students. In SECONDARY SCHOOL the number increases to nearly 100 STUDENTS PER TEACHER.

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