{"id":835,"date":"2008-04-02T16:23:01","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T20:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=835"},"modified":"2014-11-14T16:01:38","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T21:01:38","slug":"global-leadership-and-service-project-remains-a-transforming-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2008\/04\/global-leadership-and-service-project-remains-a-transforming-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Leadership and Service Project remains a transforming experience."},"content":{"rendered":"

Reaching beyond the limits of language directly into the hearts of Thai children and having their hearts touched in return was the order of the day for participants in the Global Leadership and Service Project (GLSP)\u2013Bangkok, now in its fourth year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nOne group of students in the Global Leadership and Service Project returned to Baan Rachawadee, a modern, government-sponsored complex that delivers services to people with special needs.<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Composition of group shows global range.<\/em><\/p>\n

The 2008 GLSP-Bangkok, which took place from March 13-24, 2008, brought 24 students from Florida International University together with two recipients of travel grants from the College of Business Administration, one from Baruch College and one from George Washington University; a student from St. Mary\u2019s University, San Antonio, Texas; a student from Colombia, the head of the international business department at Arkansas University; Robert Hogner<\/strong>, associate professor, Department of Management and International Business and coordinator of the college\u2019s Civic Engagement Initiative; and 21 students from partner university Chandrakasem Rajabaht University\u2019s (CRU) English Club and Community Development Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nGLSP participants formed warm relationships with each other and the orphaned kids with disabilities at Baan Rachawadee.<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Activities took place at three sites: Baan Rachawadee, a modern, government-sponsored complex that delivers services to people with special needs; the Foundation for the Better Life of Children (FBLC)\u2014a pre-school that rescues children living on the streets, and a new site: a Royal Family-sponsored community pre-school in the economically disadvantaged area of Klong Toey.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast year, I worked with severely disabled kids at Baan Rachawadee,\u201d said international business major and this year\u2019s team leader Andres Franco<\/strong>. \u201cThe kids this time had even more severe physical and mental disabilities, but we had an amazing connection to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Each year has brought expansion to the project\u2019s concept.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nBecause of the severe nature of the kids\u2019 disabilities, students in the GLSP weren\u2019t able to use their prepared curriculum but did a lot of dancing and singing instead.<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cAt closing ceremonies at the three sites, tears flowed freely,\u201d Hogner said. \u201cThe tears–from our students and those from CRU\u2014reflected the happiness they felt for a task well done, their sadness at having to part ways, and their realization that the children who had been part of their lives for five days would not be there the next day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although the university group has just returned, plans are already underway for the fifth GLSP-Bangkok, offered through the college\u2019s Civic Engagement Initiative and supported by the Center for Business Education and Research (CIBER), Asian Studies, the Honors College, the college’s executive dean\u2019s office, and the Department of Management and International Business.<\/p>\n

Among those plans is one for institutionalizing the GLSP as a full Alternative Spring Break program through the university\u2019s Center for Leadership and Service. Also, planning with CRU has begun for \u201cup-country\u201d Thailand projects with multiple, but smaller teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reaching beyond the limits of language directly into the hearts of Thai children and having their hearts touched in return was the order of the day for participants in the Global Leadership and Service Project (GLSP)\u2013Bangkok, now in its fourth year. One group of students in the Global Leadership and Service Project returned to Baan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[109,1028,1038,1158],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24164,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions\/24164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}