Friends of John William Education Center
Our Supporters
Many, many good people and organizations help us.
We are most grateful to all of them
To name a few:
Voices of African Mothers supports our Conflict Resolution program. For example, they conducted training for the staff of John William Montessori School in Conflict Resolution techniques.
Scarsdale Friends Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), and other Friends have donated generously to our Conflict Resolution program, providing the financing which made possible our first two summer programs.Much tangible support also came from the Peace Education and Conflict Ethos (PEACE) Institute of Oswego State University.
That Nothing Be Lost Thrift Store and Antique Shop located in Graymoor, Garrison, New York supports St. Christopher's Inn and its residents. For some years now they have have kindly donated such things as left-over seasonal summer material (clothes, bedding, shoes and children's things). The associated foundation has helped us with the cost of our shipments to Ghana.
International Cultural Youth Exchange
They have provided volunteer teachers and registered nurses for the school clinic. Among many other things, the ICYE volunteers have decorated classrooms and organized the school library.
Fabkom, Incorporated
has generously helped us with donations of computers and networking equipment since 2000.
AfricaOnLine
John William Montessori School gets its Internet access from AfricaOnLine. It is expensive, some $8000 USD per year, but we do appreciate their help.
The African-American Heritage Club of the Sleepy Hollow Middle and High School adopted the John William Montessori School in 1997, after JWMS students came to visit them in Tarrytown, New York in cultural exchange program. They returned the visit in 2005 and brought many school supplies.
Non-Profit Computing has arranged for us to collect donations of a significant number of computers, monitors and other computer related equipment.
Some of those who have donated computer equipment:
Aquila Management Corporation
Butler Larsen Pierce and Company, Incorporated
Donald J. Fager and Associates, Incorporated
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
Hempstead Long Island School District
Literacy Partners, Incorporated
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
National Coalition of Concerned Legal Professionals
Outsource Partners International
Quaker United Nations Office - New York (QUNONY)
The Sondra and Charles Gilman Jr. Foundation
Sleepy Hollow Middle and High School
and many individuals.
In the past:
Affordables in Dobbs Ferry, New York and the Women's Fire Auxiliary of Lisle, New York have donated games, toys and many other items of use to children.
We have been helped by The World Organization of Former United Nations Interns and Fellows, Incorporated (WAFUNIF) They donated a computer to John William Montessori School and arranged for publication of a book of poems written by JWMS students.
The Ghana Education Project, created by students from Princeton and other schools helped us sort some of the 70,000 library books donated to John William Montessori School by World Vision International.
World of Hope International helped us greately in designing appropriate material for use in our HIV / AIDS program.
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