by Marilyn Mosley Gordanier | Jun 28, 2017 | CHARITY, EDUCATION, FAMILY, GENERAL, NEWS, VOLUNTEERS
It been said that “When you educate a girl, you educate a nation”. Yet, the key to making this work is often overlooked – empowering and supporting mothers. This is not a new issue in countries such as Afghanistan which has one of the lowest literacy rates in...
by Inkline | May 11, 2017 | CHARITY, EDUCATION, FAMILY, GENERAL, NEWS, VOLUNTEERS
The Emmy-nominated documentary trailer of #GirlRising opens with recorded broadcast news of 14 yr. old #Malala Yousafzai shot in the head for fighting for girls’ rights to education in #Afghanistan. Nine girls from different countries – Sierra Leone, Cambodia, Nepal,...
by The New York Time | Mar 28, 2017 | CHARITY, EDUCATION, FAMILY
When the first day of the new school year starts in Afghanistan on Thursday, 3.7 million boys and girls won’t be in attendance, because of increased violence, displacement and poverty. The total number — roughly one in three school-age Afghan children — is expected to...
by Red Elephant | Mar 23, 2017 | CHARITY, EDUCATION, FAMILY, GENERAL, NEWS, VOLUNTEERS
Girls are vulnerable to being married at a young age when families cannot afford to buy food and children do not go to school. For $60 a month an entire family can be fed. Food4School provides needy Afghan families with money for food in exchange for sending their...
by Alexandra Bradford | Jan 26, 2017 | CHARITY, EDUCATION, FAMILY, GENERAL, NEWS, VOLUNTEERS
With her Food4School program, educator Marilyn Mosley Gordanier hopes that giving families money to buy food will allow them to pay for their daughters’ education and keep them from turning to child marriage to make ends meet. Marilyn Mosley Gordanier’s life changed...
by Rebecca Kochenderfer | Jan 4, 2017 | CHARITY, EDUCATION, FAMILY, GENERAL, NEWS, VOLUNTEERS
Dear Fellow Homeschooler, This is Rebecca Kochenderfer from Homeschool.com. I just had the most amazing breakfast meeting with Marilyn Mosley and I’d really like to tell you about it. Marilyn is the founder of Laurel Springs School and she is one of the best...
