Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE), is a student led non-profit organization that is rapidly gaining attention with their world-wide program, impacting nearly 1,300 different universities. SIFE makes it possible for university students to make a difference in their communities while developing their business skills. One particular university, the Shri Ram College of Commerce, has excelled [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Community Development’
Students in Free Enterprise: Making a Difference World-Wide
Posted by Casey on August 10th, 2011
Update from Thailand – July 2011
Posted by Alicia on July 25th, 2011
Several members of the Global Breakthrough team are currently in Thailand, these are their reflections of walking around Pattaya and seeing the tragedy of young lives trapped in the sex trade. Arriving on the streets of Pattaya can only be described as being on another planet. The sights, smells, and brokenness of all that fills [...]
breakthrough News: May 2011
Posted by Casey on May 26th, 2011
The month of May has been a busy one for us at Global Breakthrough. International trips have continued as our team has visited Ethiopia, Chile and Spain. Our team has also been joined by some incredible interns and volunteers. ETHIOPIA: In Ethiopia, two conferences were held and were designed to help develop leadership and community building [...]
Trip Update: Ethiopia & Chile
Posted by Alicia on May 16th, 2011
Founder of Global Breakthrough, Jeff McKinley, traveled to Ethiopia and Chile this past month. Both trips revealed generous amounts of progress being made in each country, and here is a better look at what’s happening: Ethiopia: Two conferences were held in the cities Debre Zeyit and Shaesh Anene. Each one lasted four days and was [...]
breakthroughNEWS -April 2011
Posted by Alicia on April 25th, 2011
Happy Easter!! We hope you had a fantastic day hanging out with family and friends. This has been a very exciting month for the Global Breakthrough family, we’ve had teams in India and Ethiopia teaching at several leadership conferences and have seen tremendous growth and opportunities for getting involved open up. The time that our [...]
Team Update from India
Posted by Alicia on April 18th, 2011
We sat down recently with Stephanie DiJulio, a volunteer with Global Breakthrough who just returned from a ten day trip to India. She and the other Global Breakthrough team members spoke at two conferences, looked into outlets for business growth, and built relationships with the people there. The first two days consisted of conferences held [...]
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Tags: Causes, Community Development, Empowering Women, India, Leadership Training, Womens Rights 
1 Comment »breakthroughNEWS -March 2011
Posted by Alicia on March 28th, 2011
Imagine a country where 2.4 million people are living with HIV/AIDS… …this country also has around 31 million orphans and 42% of the people in this country are living below the poverty line of $1.25 a day… This is INDIA. In the month of April we are headed to N. India to teach at 2 [...]
Modern Day Slavery
Posted by Alicia on March 21st, 2011
Recently we took a filming crew on a trip with us to Thailand so that they could record the voices and stories of human trafficking victims. Watch this video and learn about the cycle of poverty which drives so many girls to end up enslaved in the sex industry. Then email us or donate and [...]
People making a difference – Collyn
Posted by Alicia on March 14th, 2011
Collyn is a member of the Global Breakthrough team who focuses on developing business curriculum and micro-loans in Thailand and is very involved in fundraising for our various causes. She will be moving to Thailand this year to keep furthering her work in micro-finance and helping women escape out of the sex trade. What do [...]
Empowering Women in Developing Nations
Posted by Megan on March 8th, 2011
In the developing world, women are often the key to a community finding success in health, education and economics. Global Breakthrough is passionate about causes surrounding the rights of women, especially those that deal with the empowerment of women. In Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn’s book, Half the Sky, is the raw, detailed and [...]
