Video: Zambian Children Bring Gratitude to FCL

We are excited to bring you words of thanks from a Zambian school where Dr. Farzin Rahmani recently brought equipment. Dr. Rahmani is a representative of one of the many schools in Zambia where teachers have been trained to help children change their communities through Full-Circle Learning. Check out the video on Facebook!

Tanzania in the News: Hood River Article

Travelogue: Tanzania - The Universality of Laughter: You step off the plane into the balmy night, your weary legs fail you as you stumble on the tarmac but a dark, unfamiliar hand offers salvation from certain humiliation on this foreign continent...

Check out the compelling Oregon based Hood River News article about Full-Circle Learning in Tanzania.

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Rancho Sespe Summer School Newsletter 2016: Hearts of Sage

Excerpt from the Newsletter: As usual, the PEACEMAKERS are overly excited to come into class and see friends they have seen throughout the year as well as meeting new ones. Together the class came up with another word to define aspiration and that was to DREAM.

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FCL Sites Around the World: Tanzania

Teachers and students are already conducting inspiring projects after a brief period of training in Arusha, Tanzania, where 99% of families use firewood as cooking fuel. Girls are often sent to gather wood for fuel, which leaves little time for school. In addition to discouraging them from pursuing their education, this practice contributes to deforestation. Thanks to their Full-Circle Learning projects, children are now teaching the community to make cow dung patties as an alternative fuel source. Meanwhile, a wisdom exchange partner is preparing to make solar cookers for them to replicate.

Full-Circle Learning came to Tanzania when Olivia Newcomb, of Hood River Oregon, and Maureen Mungai, of Malaga Spain, raised the funds to train the Tanzania teachers. The training occurred at the Dinka School in the winter of 2016.



Olivia, who grew up as a student of Full-Circle Learning from kindergarten on, especially wanted to bring its benefits to orphans from the Your Sisters project, who attend the school. She collaborated with Full-Circle Learning to enlist the Maureen’s training expertise. As a native Kenyan, Maureen speaks Swahili and also trained many Full-Circle Learning Schools in Lesotho and South Africa. In June, 2016, teachers sent word of their first successful projects. Working with the “Habits of Oneness” module, the teachers had designed lesson plans to introduce the habits of Awareness, Teamwork and Leadership to help students apply integrated education strategies to confront their community challenges. The dung patties were just one of the service initiatives the teachers planned as a result of their training.

Newly Trained Teachers Help Students Address Equal Education and the Environment

Teachers and students are already conducting inspiring projects after a brief period of training in Arusha, Tanzania, where 99% of families use firewood as cooking fuel. Girls are often sent to gather wood for fuel, which leaves little time for school. In addition to discouraging them from pursuing their education, this practice contributes to deforestation. Thanks to their Full-Circle Learning projects, children are now teaching the community to make cow dung patties as an alternative fuel source. Meanwhile, a wisdom exchange partner is preparing to make solar cookers for them to replicate.

Full-Circle Learning came to Tanzania when Olivia Newcomb, of Hood River Oregon, and Maureen Mungai, of Malaga Spain, raised the funds to train the Tanzania teachers. The training occurred at the Dinka School in the winter of 2016.



Olivia, who grew up as a student of Full-Circle Learning from kindergarten on, especially wanted to bring its benefits to orphans from the Your Sisters project, who attend the school. She collaborated with Full-Circle Learning to enlist the Maureen’s training expertise. As a native Kenyan, Maureen speaks Swahili and also trained many Full-Circle Learning Schools in Lesotho and South Africa. In June, 2016, teachers sent word of their first successful projects. Working with the “Habits of Oneness” module, the teachers had designed lesson plans to introduce the habits of Awareness, Teamwork and Leadership to help students apply integrated education strategies to confront their community challenges. The dung patties were just one of the service initiatives the teachers planned as a result of their training.

JB Eckl Concert Saturday July 2!

Grammy-winning Canadian songwriter will preview new release Everywhere at Once.
JB’s lyrics “map the terrain of the soul” and his music cuts across styles and genres

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Kick Off the Holiday Weekend with a House Concert At
The Reader Home - 23095 State Highway 49, Nevada City CA
Saturday, July 2, 3:00 pm
Free Admission – Onsite CD Purchase Encouraged
**

Special Bonus:
Silent auction to benefit FCL Liberia’s
“Education as Transformation” and Post-Ebola Orphan Scholarships
Great Auction Items
(Checks to Full-Circle Learning or cash preferred)


RSVP by June 29 to TLangness@gmail.com.

Directions to the Reader Home:
From the 20 Freeway in Grass Valley or Nevada City, drive north.
Stay in the left lane. Take HWY 49 North toward Downieville.
Drive about 7 miles. Cross South Yuba Bridge.
After crossing the bridge, drive 1.9 miles on HWY 49.
Turn right into the 3rd driveway, at the crest of the hill. (You will see 3 mailboxes by the gate.)
Go through the gate and cross the cattle guard.
Stay to the left and drive the gravel road for half a mile to the white house.
Parking is available in front of the garage, along the gravel road and around the circle drive.
Watch out for solar lights.

Tarzana's Ecuador Project Video and Habits of Heart 2015 Summary

Check out this video of children from the Tarzana school explain the Ecuador project in their words and also learn about othr ways to help.

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