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Mission
Engage Globally supports community-led sustainable development |
Vision
Sustainable development for all |
Community CollaborationEngage Globally collaborates with local community leaders to pursue sustainability development. We believe that communities can be effective change makers as they are uniquely able to identify their priorities and implement projects with cultural awareness, using local resources, and maintaining longterm sustainability.
Engage supports community-led sustainability by providing financial resources, capacity building, knowledge, and educational curriculums. We also seek to listen, learn, and grow from our partnerships. |
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Organization Founding
Our Story
Engage Globally was founded by Heather Heckel, while she was an Assistant Professor of sustainability with American University. In this role, Heather had the opportunity to study and observe global education and sustainable development programs in many developing countries. Building upon these experiences, inspirational meetings with local community leaders, and growing recognition of the potential of ‘engaging globally’, Heather collaborated with several alumni to establish Engage Globally as a non-profit organization. We began with one classroom of 30 students in 2007.
Engage began as an all volunteer organization supporting one classroom of 30 children in rural Ghana. Today, we support the education of nearly 500 youth in six rural villages along with community empowerment and gender equity programs. Thanks to our supporters, interns, Board, and volunteers, our organization is growing as we expand our work in Northern Ghana and provide sustainability education resources to a variety of communities.
Engage began as an all volunteer organization supporting one classroom of 30 children in rural Ghana. Today, we support the education of nearly 500 youth in six rural villages along with community empowerment and gender equity programs. Thanks to our supporters, interns, Board, and volunteers, our organization is growing as we expand our work in Northern Ghana and provide sustainability education resources to a variety of communities.
Establishing the Taha school expanded our partnership with community leaders in Ghana in 2014 |
Ghanaian students, Mutia and Mujab are pictured here in their first pair of shoes and new school uniforms. |