My name is Funmilayo Aberejesu. I am a facilitator with full circle learning in the western part of Nigeria (Osun state). My journey with full circle learning started in the Gambia in 2013 where I met the founder and president,Dr Teresa Langness.
She provided a transformative and impactive training for selected teachers across the Gambia, I was lucky to be one of the trainees. Since 2013, I fell in love with this non profit and inculcated the educational model in my school, Solid foundation School in the Gambia. Mum Teresa as I fondly call her has been an encourager, motivator and role model to me in my journey with full circle learning.
Full circle learning educational model infuses purpose into learning,this approach to education is holistic, empowering, impactful and inspiring.
The foundational unit of the educational model which is character education has made a whole difference in my world. My capacity building skills received on the job has increased my knowledge and collaborative effort.
I have trained and mentor teachers and supervised community based projects such as skills acquisition,health disparities and poverty alleviation in my state. The teachers have been tools to transforming the lifes of the young ones in different schools. Full circle learning provided these impactful and educational experiences. The non profit organization has impacted our communities across the globe with student centered activities.
With my experience as a facilitator with full circle learning I am now passionate about learning and leading
Our motto ' To lead is to serve and to serve is to lead.
The pictures below is a training session with Beulah International school, Osun state Nigeria and kindness class of the same showing the greeting cards they made for each other.
I am enthusiastically and gratefully writing about my experience working as a Mental Health Consultant with the NGO Full Circle Learning. I was physically based in Zambia, and worked remotely with the Harvard International School in Nigeria. I had dreamed of working in Africa for over 10 years, but finding a reliable, trustworthy, and altruistic agency proved difficult; that was, until I was lucky enough to be recommended FCL and Teresa Langness.
During my time with Full Circle Learning, the team and I conducted Full Circle Learning workshops blended with my Mental Health Workshops. During this time, teachers learned how to holistically teach children, empathetically interact with their learners, and peacefully resolve conflicts. During my mental health awareness workshops, teachers were able to speak about their own mental health (most for the first time in their lives), learn about trauma, generational trauma, coping skills, how to understand themselves, and also open up to their fellow teachers. Tears were shed, connections were made, and after only a few days, nearly every teacher reported feeling "better" after finally having these authentic conversations.
I watched schools collaborate that used to compete; I watched trees get planted to provide food; I watched students dance, sing, and smile. In today's world that can seem so hopeless, so full of corruption, and so (for a lack of better words) evil, I was able to see happiness, change, and hope. Full Circle Learning is truly doing the work that needs to be done, in an intensely hands-on, genuine, and non-corrupt way, offering knowledge and sustainable change in systems that are eager to learn. I never imagined I would be doing such incredible and life-changing work here in Africa, and I truly owe it all to Teresa and her incredible Full Circle Learing Team.
I am forever grateful to this NGO, and will be rooting for it with everything it does. To change lives is to change the world, and to change the world is to save the world. Thank you Full Circle Learning, for changing the world, and may you continue to do so for the years to come. I will never forget the faces that turned from sadness to smiles, all because of you.
Here are some of my favorite quotes from teachers and students that I heard during my time in Zambia!
"Full Circle Learning is really doing amazing things."- a smiling teacher during the tree-planting project.
"This is my life?!" -screamed a smiling student holding his play-dough creation during my mental health workshop.
"Wow look at us! You've uplifted our mood!" -a smiling teacher after the mental health workshop.
"Each child is like this blank piece of paper. Innocent and vulnerable. What kind of mark will you leave on it?"- a strong Full Circle Learning presenter during the FCL workshop.
"I'm better. You've really helped us. You did a good job! We are only humans. You've helped us with the learners too." -a calm and smiling teacher.
"Thank you Full Circle Learning, for all that you have done. We are leaving with knowledge that we will not forget." - a smiling school principal.
"Thank you for coming to Zambia and for bringing sunshine in our lives." - a kind principal at a school.
Full circle learning non-profit , has changed lives of young ones in different communities in Zambia, when i knew this non-profit i was happy to hear what this organization promotes, first the organization teaches young ones how they can become society change agents by providing service projects to different communities ,depending with what they want to educate the people,for example Zambian students have been showcasing there project about 1.mentle health (plant a tree and serve lives)
2.tribalism (how it affects the learners in schools)
and
3.chorelar (why cleanliness is important)
By using habit of hearts, these three projects have touched the hearts of many, i remember when i did a project with learners in 2020, to teach about tribalism how it can affect the learning stadards of learners in schools,after the project different communities appreciated the learners for coming up with such a project, learners were able to show love, Unity and forgive each other and by using share it step, they continued to talk what the learnt at school with friends at home.
So we can see that full circle learning non-profit is really a game changer to our societies and Africa at Large.
I wish full circle learning non-profit organisation,Gods blessings as it continue to change life for many.
From
Raphael .chilwana
(Zambia )
Through many years I have known the incredible impact of Full Circle Learning for our local children in Los Angeles, and then as it has grown to serve in the schools around the world. Teresa Langness developed the curriculum, which uniquely incorporates the best of human values, and incorporates the power of the heart within all academic learning. It has empowered both educators and students to become the best they can be and to have an amazing impact on their communities. Supporting Full Circle Learning is one of the best ways we can have a direct and positive impact on our world.
I’m the youngest member of the Full-Circle Learning board, which means I have a lifelong stake in the well-being of the next generation leaders. It’s a deep honour to witness young people transforming their lives and communities around the world using the Full-Circle Learning model. Thirty years of evidence-based educational excellence are giving tomorrow’s global leaders the skills and compassion to bring clean water, green energy, public health, food security, peace, racial justice, and gender equity to villages, towns, and cities from Lusaka to Los Angeles. With Full-Circle Learning, the future looks brighter every day.
Our board is so proud of the young people around the world who are integrating a habit-of-heart, their academic skills, the arts, conflict resolution, and local/global service into their learning, through wisdom exchanges across nations. These learners see service to their human family as the primary purpose for learning. We have witnessed their impact on many thousands of people in their region, bringing our annual constituency to well over a million a year. They are tackling the challenges of the times: peace, equity, health disparities, climate change impacts, and food security for the vulnerable families, orphans and widows in their regions. We appreciate those who share their vision. The next generation is our hope, especially on continents increasingly producing the benevolent leaders and world citizens of our time.
At a time when there is turmoil and conflict all around the globe, leaving us devastated and hopeless for this generation. It is clear more than ever, that the only hope for our future lies in educating the next generation to be world embracing peacemakers. Empowered change agents and loving advocates who are trustworthy and virtuous.
Full circle learning has done just that for over 30 years using a streamlined cost effective method that adapts to every age and culture.
If you want to have an impact on the future of our world, I highly recommend supporting Full circle learning.
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I have been a supporter of Full Circle Learning for about ten years but since I visited the schools that implement their character building curriculum in Liberia, I have seen first hand the impact of their program in the students, their families, and their community. They run a tight ship. Now with the Ebola outbreak, they are also providing supplies to stop the spread.
I started going to the Full Circle Learning Climate Change Agent Camp as a camper in 2014. During my time as a camper, I got to meet many great people, help out around the community, and advocate for a better world. While at camp, I learned the values of leadership, empathy, and perseverance. Later, I became a Camp Counselor, helping other campers to learn the skills that I learned attending camp for all those years. Full Circle Learning has been a big part of my life growing up, and has helped to make me who I am today.
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I started going to Full Circle Learning as a student at a young age. At Full Circle Learning, we are always working at making the world a cleaner and more friendly place, along with students from all across the world. I later became a counselor in order to contribute back to the organization that has given me so many fond memories. Full Circle Learning has some of the most talented, hardworking, and passionate people I have ever met, and I am glad that I got to be a part of this great organization for so many years. I hope to be a part of Full Circle Learning for many years to come.
Never have I known a non profit to be so fiscally responsible and mindful of its purpose. The goal to provide free curriculum and training to promote humanitarian education around the globe is what motivates the actions of this organization. The Board members are passionate about promoting this model, and transparency is a commitment. Monthly and annual reports, constant contact updates, and monthly donor letters are common practice. The shoestring budget goes a long way to promote this educational model.
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This past Saturday, like many other Saturdays, I found myself amongst the children of our Saturday school. In true Full-Circle Learning form, we were seated in the “humanity circle.” This has been a tradition for several years now. However, on this particular day, I was struck with the realization that our school culture has indeed undergone a most positive transformation. Once filled with petty complaints often associated with childhood and common playground struggles to share limited resources and space, we now have no such drama. Instead, our students have internalized the sheer joy of compromise and altruism. They delight when they or their friends are elected for server nominations- a wonderful recognition of their ability to apply the habits-of-heart that offer much-needed complexity to our learning.
This should not have been a true “aha!” moment, because all visitors comment on the culture of our school. Most recently, my education students from Chapman University visited our Saturday school. These soon-to-be teachers study the model and incorporate it into their practicum. They have experienced working with fifth graders at a local public school where the Full-Circle Learning model is introduced as a two-week after-school enrichment program. Contrasting these two settings was their immediate reaction; they were impressed with the manner in which the Saturday students engaged in learning and dialogue. Our more saturated students were deeply involved in the process of learning and respected the diverse perspectives offered by others, while the short-term students in the after-school program often required extrinsic rewards. (Thankfully, this started to change by the end of our internship period with them.)
The more I apply Full-Circle Learning pedagogy, the more I come to understand its simplistic complexity. All aspects of this approach are thoughtfully and creatively organized. Through the 13-S scaffolded learning steps, teachers contextualize and extend academic content. By using the habit-of-heart as a lens for integrated learning concepts, , students connect deeply with not only the content but with the application. Engaging in collaborative endeavors to transform local communities and to connect with global partners provides the much-needed purpose that children crave.
All-too-often, many school children sit in cognitive comas in uninspired classrooms. As a Program Specialist for the Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment (BTSA) Induction Program, (a credentialing program that guides first and second year teachers), I know that teachers struggle with culturally-responsive pedagogy. I also grapple with their challenge to create invigorating and effective classroom environments. The new Common Core State Standards in America promote cross-content learning. Additionally, they emphasize collaboration and critical thinking while thinking and connecting globally. These new challenges present an amazing opportunity to apply a model that works so effectively, over time: Full-Circle Learning.
I think about our humanity circle and recall what one parent told me. “The humanity circle is my favorite part of the day!” I see what she means and also am reminded of the broad smile on the face of an energetic three year-old when he was nominated for service. One other student saw him demonstrating the habit of empathy and nominated him to distribute the lunch napkins. There was such pride in his little face. Imagine, no stickers or candy. The honor to serve was his reward. THAT is how we create future leaders with altruistic hearts.
Thank you for sharing the gift of Full-Circle Learning!
With much gratitude,
Marisol Rexach
It has been a wealth of experience with the Full Circle Learning. The help and impact it has and continues to leave in Cameroon is remarkable. We appreciate the project grants given to support student's school projects and the training support to teachers. Truly our community has embraced change through the beautiful model we emulate from the FCL and our children are fast becoming the change agents in this human family.
We greatly appreciate the works of FCL in Cameroon and the impact it's has had in transforming our community through education.
Much appreciated,
Nene
Cameroon
The purpose of Full-Circle Learning is to support youth in accepting their position as social change agents and humanitarians. A methodical approach to instilling heart-centered habits in curriculum development, classroom management, service-learning, and the change process is provided by the Full-Circle Learning model.
The nonprofit organization Full-Circle Learning enables local communities to modify their educational requirements in accordance with a shared vision of transformation, action toward sustainable development goals, and dedication to the family of humans and all living things.
In order to influence the current generation to engage in community service and to extend classroom learning into communities, this organization's integrated school community support service is essential. It teaches students to become well-schooled in the understanding that "to serve is to lead and to lead is to serve," and it addresses real-life issues like health disparities, malnutrition, poverty, hunger, care for the elderly, gender inequality, and conflict.
In my capacity as an officer f FCL Africa Continental Committee -ACC and director of Full Circle Learning Gambia, I serve as a living example of this wonderful humanitarian organization as we progressively advance and as FCL has a positive influence on communities throughout Africa and beyond. A potential shift toward a more progressive learning approach in education may occur in the near future as a result of the human family, the environment, and communities being touched and having an impact on one another's minds and hearts. As a result, people's hearts will start to see the reality of life.
sincerely
Alagie Ndow
FCL Gambia
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My name is Alagie Ndow, and I am currently the regional representative and lead facilitator for Full Circle Learning in the Gambia.
My involvement with Full Circle Learning began in 2013 when I received professional development training based on the transformative educational model of this organization. The training was delivered by Full Circle Learning founding board presidents in the Gambia, and it was from that moment of academic enrichment that I fell in love with this great humanitarian organization. My experience with Dr.Teresa has taught me the value of service for the betterment of global progress.
It was from that moment I began practicing and implementing their educational model as a young education facilitator tutoring children in the Gambia. FCL have increased my capacities as an individual and opened my mind to see the world holistically with a clear vision for an integrated society for all human beings to live together in the world, with love, dignity, peace and harmony. This vision and model have enriched me and uplifted me as an educational leader, and my experience over the last years working with FCL has enhanced my leadership as role model, trainer and community worker.
This unique education model uses customized steps called the 13s-unit steps, - flexible tools that can be integrated into any learning format to guide world global education and provide pathways to open up the road map of peace as the habits of hearts are being nurtured and uniting with self-mastery to reach a solution for the human destiny.
FCL through its Girls United project also equips girls to achieve academic growth, motivate good virtues which link academic skills, community service projects, to address relevant goals such as economic and gender issues, public health, the environment, arts and conflict resolution.
This organization’s integrated school community support service is key in impacting today’s generation to participate in action through community service and extending learning from classroom to communities, making real life service such as health disparities, malnutrition, climate change, poverty, hunger, care for the elderly, gender inequities and conflict - and teaches them to become well-schooled in the understanding that “to serve is to lead and to lead is to serve”.
I want to highlight few exemplary Full Circle Learning serve supported project in Gambia.
The children of Sajuka Lower Basic School felt excited to take on the identity of Climate Change Agents this semester. They considered local environmental challenges before determining how their skills and actions could help reduce climate change impacts in the future. Full Circle Learning supported them in creating a more sustainable environment with a tree planting project. The collaboration enabled the students to extend their learning from the classroom to the community and expand the carbon sink. To prevent erosion and flooding, students planted over 50 seedlings, including coconut palms and endangered mahogany trees, along the riverbanks.
This service project involves all member of the community, and it is beautiful for me to see parents, teachers and students all participating in the planting service, and it’s a great moment to see the joy in the students as they begin their first service project in their own community.
In February 2021 students from my country (Gambia) and Zambia collaborated on a tribal unification campaign creating a network of unity and fostering cultural understanding between groups of students from the both countries who worked together across borders to bring about a peaceful society for all citizens. Students at FCL schools in the two countries independently recognized the growing problem of tribalism, setting a course towards peace by organizing advocacy campaigns, conflict resolution demonstrations, and celebrations of cultural diversity.
Here in the Gambia, I was part of a group of student leaders conducting a peaceful advocacy mission through an open microphone session which allowed passersby to give their own speeches in the marketplace, and meant the whole community could contribute to the spirit of togetherness illuminating the gathering of hundreds.
The Royal Seeds students after mastering the Full Circle Learning Habit of Hearts delivered a service project on malnutrition, working with health practitioners on health field trips, researching malnutrition, and holding health talks with mothers of malnourished babies at one convent. After two months of this service the children and their teachers provided a gift of food for families to support their babies and fight hunger and malnutrition.
Through the intervention of Full Circle Learning, the students of Jalan Bang primary School had the opportunity to grow their own food in their own school community garden thanks to the support of FCL in providing capital in building up a security wall for the garden, bay garden tools and seedlings. This gave the students to grown their own food and organize food sharing day with community elders.
This organization has opened my wider understanding of how small and connected we are as one human family. In 2016 I founded the Gambia’s Inspiring Young Stars charity, which builds on the pillars and concepts of Full-Circle Learning. Since then, this infant sibling FCL organization has been impacting the life of young people thanks to Full Circle Learning.
Some testimonies from Full Circle Learning supported schools.
“My knowledge has been enriched as I digest the educational model of the Full Circle Learning, and it has opened my world on how I think about education and learning. As an educator today I have begun implementing this unique tool for my school and work to expand the team with many other schools in my country” says Mr. Sanyang, a teacher.
“I am so excited today about making peace with my best friend. I wasn’t able to talk with her for weeks, but thanks to the conflict material for helping us to reunite again as friends. I love the Full Circle model” says Mariama, a student from MyFarm.
As the head of Full Circle Learning Gambia, I am a living testament of this great humanitarian organization as we gradually make progress and as FCL has a positive impact in communities and across countries in Africa and round the globe. By touching lives and impacting minds of the human family, the environment and communities there is a possible transformation in the near future as their hearts begin to see the reality of life and sustainable impact will then begin to transform education and change to a more progressive learning approach.
When future leaders begin applying integrity in real life and practice peacemaking these will cement the true change agents in every corner in diverse societies, in every nation, and when students conceive, believe and achieve character education and self mastering units it enhances the destiny of the global human family, they maximize their own potential then this will influence a better world and elevate a society for all people and a sustainable world to live in.
With honor most respectfully
Alagie Ndow
country Rep
FCL Gambia
Like i did mention in my first review
My love for this organization is not a trifling emotion,
I have been serving, working and collaborating with this Full Circle Learning for the time i feel called to put thoughts into words, in terms of divulging its serviceability that is rooted in making education accessible to everyone , especially humanizing Education, deliberately promoting human potential , leadership and sustainability skills to younger generations.
Continuously working with Full Circle learning is to me a high-flown honor,
Creating , curating and promoting collective relation_ality between parents, teachers and learners.
Teaching the habit-of-heart concepts , and holding spaces for mutual collaboration, wisdom exchanges, conflict resolution , especially contributing to the up-brining of the child at the core , and forefront of every service, placing these young leaders and helping them lead the way, is all but the most significant role i have been honored to play, giving back to communities , growing the currencies of love, compassion and sympathy.
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I have been involved in Full-Circle Learning since 2019 and have found it ti be all that the world should need to bridge educational divide across the continent.
To me Full Circle Learning is not just a simple organization , but rather a body of highly human-centric and dedicated humanitarians , working to build the better world that our hearts know.
The fact that over 500 learners formally not in school were able to leave the streets and joined formal schooling is a major transformation brought about by the efforts of the Full Circle Learning work (through facilitators and volunteers).
all the above learners are happily in school and are fully motivated to pursue their educational careers and their dreams in life, as some of them aspire to be doctors, lawyers, teachers, law makers,social workers and many more. And about 300 more vulnerable children are currently engaged in school preparatory activities in their communities.
As a new FCL country (Uganda),
The small-big actions driven by Full Circle learning , are all an impact this world deserves.
hence , Full Circle Learning deserves all the honor , all the support , all the praises.
My most heart-felt prayer is that Full-Circle gains all it deserves so that its mission and values can be taught and spread out in every school around the globe.
Faithfully submitted,
Fiston Muganda
Facilitator
From our experience of the collaborative relationship between Full Circle Learning and the Ridván School in El Salvador that began at the end of 2022, in January 2023 the workshops for the transfer of the learning program were held in person in El Salvador. Full Circle Learning, which has opened the doors to integrate a wonderful work team with teachers, parents, students and other community actors such as churches, the municipality of Colón and companies that provide educational materials since until then it had not been fully achieved, this has allowed us to expand and strengthen the school's educational program, including the principles and values program, as well as the practical application in service projects that our students develop in the community. In the first stage of implementation of the FCL program, the Ridván School has benefited from the service projects of the students with the support of their parents, beginning a process of improving the facilities, as well as the environmental conditions of the school, Therefore, this project will continue next year, as well as new service projects that are established for the benefit of the community. We are currently coordinating and making the necessary preparations so that at the beginning of January 2024 we can receive a refresh and update of the program from FCL.
FCL is the best solution to education and moral/solution development that we’ve ever come across. New curriculum and materials are constantly being developed, speaking to the current needs and concerns of families.
I continue to be inspired by the positive impact Full-Circle Learning has as a transformative organization! Having experience as an educator who has helped with our Climate Change Agents Camp, being a parent of a Full-Circle Learning Alumnus and Camp Counselor, and Board Member, I can share enthusiastically that Full-Circle Learning strives to fulfill its vision of transforming youth into humanitarian leaders across the globe. Full-Circle Learning has benefited the lives of over 1 million members of our human global family. Full-Circle Learning is such a wonderful and worthwhile non-profit organization.
Thank you!
Lily Ning
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Full-Circle Learning is an amazing, transformative organization! Having experience as an educator who has helped with our Climate Change Agents Camp, being a parent of a Full-Circle Learning Alumnus and now Camp Counselor, and Board Member, I can share enthusiastically that Full-Circle Learning lives its vision of transforming youth into humanitarian leaders across the globe. Full-Circle Learning is such a wonderful and worthwhile non-profit organization.
Thank you!
Lily Ning
Since 2005 I started contributing to my community through education in Liberia. As a young and energetic classroom teacher with students of deafness and those that could hear, I was motivated by their curiosity and their situations to explore meaningful learning activities that were perfect for postwar learners. Ten years later, after exploring different teaching methods, my school –Korto JP Vogar School System, was introduced to Full-Circle Learning and its teaching model. Before I was trained by Full-Circle Learning as visionary classroom teacher, a brochure that outlined all about the organization was issued to me and other 23 teachers who were preparing for the training in the same school. For the first time in my entire teaching career I read a document that was precisely unique for the true African class. This is a model that I strongly believe could revolutionize the absolute continents especially Africa. When I read deeper and accessed over five curriculums of Full-Circle Learning, I realized that the model or teaching approach presents a golden opportunity for learners to build a resilient community just from their classrooms. Because of these facts, I immediately signed up for the four days training. After the training and onward, my students did sense a higher purpose as I presented the connections between the goals of character development, academic learning, arts and music enrichment, conflict resolution practices, and community service. By using the Full-Circle Learning model effectively from 2014 to 2018, the little over 767 students I taught during these years have become change agents and humanitarians in their respective communities. To this date, all my students have understood the concept of oneness when they mastered the habits-of-heart through integrated learning. This made them to give back to their communities by feeding the hungry, helping the elderly with water and food and water, reciting anti-conflict speeches, raising livestock to send other kids to school, etc. This contemporary Full-Circle Learning teaching methodology is taking over the entire education sector of Africa. Our students are not only learning to earn money, they are showing love, empathy, and are working together identifying and solving specific community needs or dilemmas. Today, I am not just a classroom teacher, I am a continental trainer and lead. I work with over 20 Full-Circle Learning trainers who are also facilitating our programs in over nine African nations. All of these countries including Liberia have students in about 1,000 schools. indeed, Full-Circle Learning teaching model is the solution.
Christopher W. Swen
Africa Director
Full-Circle Learning
I have been with FCL for five years as a Facilitator in Ghana and it has been of good learning and service to engaging children,youth and adults embrace the habit of unity among themselves and change agents within their communities it is of great joy when the impact of positive change is demonstrated by the learners and participants involved in the Full circle learning program . It has been an immense opportunity for me to better my life as an agent of the human family while also educating others, both young and the old on how to be agents of change , impact creators, humanitarians. Full circle learning has been a great experience as schools and communities strive day by day to practice in its modules set. It has become a way of life for us, particularly the young students who are involved to better themselves in varied ways of being part of the human family. The habits of hearts,have been a better standards and character formation across schools and communities, as, we experience good moral virtues and the zeal for change demonstrated by the children(students) participating in Full circle learning programs.
FLC is an outstanding org. They are revolutionizing education by making the programs integrative and culminating in community connection and service. In our work with the UN we use their programs on all of our projects. They deserve the highest of ratings.
The organization, Full-Circle Learning, is one of the most outstanding that I have experienced, not only for its vision and values but for the concrete results obtained in so very many different countries and cultures. Although rich in diversity, its approach is virtually universal. My experience comes from having witnessed the vision being put into practice in a summer camp where life's difficult questions, sometimes never answered during a lifetime, were profoundly demonstrated through the unity, connectedness, and purpose of all things. Having studied the FCL approach, I speak with a deep understanding. It has also been my pleasure to perform a benefit concert for FCL with several musicians. I unreservedly recommend this Great Non Profit organization. It is a leader's leader.
My name is Eric Muleya from Zambia, southern Africa. My journey with Full-circle learning since I joined in 2017, has been an interesting, inspiring and so educative. Especially for it's holistic approach to education, it has personally shaped me to become a real agent of change in my community and beyond. If the world were to be a better place for everyone, I would recommend all educators around the world to embrace this approach to education. It makes Teaching and Learning meaningful.
Since 2017 , and even the years back before I joined this good cause, I can testify the beautiful stories on how Full-circle learning has positively impacted our community and beyond. Learners after being taught why they are learning all the academic subjects they learn at school, help them realize how they can use their innate and learned skills, then they see and understand the need to be of service to the challenges faced by their community, bringing out students service projects such as (1)"Health disparities" helping community members in collaboration with the health personnel by demonstrating and teaching/sensitizing the necessary preventive measures on different types diseases, that affects the community. (2) "Tribal Unification" students promoting social tolerance, cultural diversity, it is so beautiful to see community members embracing one another regardless of their tribal or cultural background, using the Habit of Heart, core values or positive character traits such as Empathy, love, Unity , Kindness Appreciation of diversity. I feel even more motivated to keep on this journey and keep on reaching out to many, as my greatest reward for my voluntary services is more service.
And all thanks to the founders and vision carriers of this Full-circle learning, with it reaching to all corners of the world, then the hope for a better world or a better tomorrow is very possible.
Thank you,
Eric Muleya.
My journey with FCL since 2019 as a volunteer and facilitator in Cameroon has been full of lifetime memories and a continuous embrace of affirmative actions for positive change and impact creation. It has been an opportunity to better myself as part of the human family while also educating others, the young and the old on how to be change agents, impact creators, and above all humanitarians. For us in Cameroon, this has been a beautiful experience as schools and communities strive daily to practice the modules set out by the Full Circle Learning program. It is fast becoming a way of life for us, especially the very young students who get exposed to better ways of being part of the human family. The habits of hearts, for example, have been a gateway to better standards and character formation across schools and communities, and more than ever before, we see a lot of love, empathy, and responsibility demonstrated by the children. Through the conflict bridge, we all have learned a better way of resolving conflicts amongst ourselves and seeing the good in others.
Being a facilitator for Cameroon has also been a personal growth journey. It's been mixed with health challenges but each time I look at the younger ones who are already practicing the FCL programs and the impacts they are creating in their communities, I feel elated and fulfilled. My greatest joy will be seeing more and more children in the schools and communities have the same experience across Cameroon, where we learn to serve with love.
Our work in Cameroon especially in 2022 has attracted a lot of admiration from the educational board in the country, the national Press and TV, school leaders, community leaders, and Moreso, very exciting for the children. The training we organized for teachers across different regions was warmly embraced and they look forward to more of such rich exchange and how best to make education sustainable and impactful. The community grants given to children at schools have enabled another dimension of education. The children have been able to come up with an initiative “Gardening projects” and worked so hard on the farm. They were able to share their vegetables after the harvest, with the old, the sick, and the internally displaced in the conflict zone. So much love and empathy. I could write so much about this exciting journey with the FCL for it has exceeded expectations.
my name is soheil samimi. My wife and I have been involved with this organization at least for 15 years. They started small and now they are in 15 + countries and 29 locations.
Teaching children with the usual academics as well as moral education and life of service to
the others. These children grow up 1st helping themselves and their families and then
giving service to the community at large becomes their second nature.
I ask you to investigate this NGO and surely you will fall in love with their work.
You will be surprised to know that their overhead is one 9%. This is achieved by using volunteer staff and board members and using money for the projects.
The health disparities team is an initiative of full circle learning inspired school in Delta state
The team is made up of students from ages 14 down to 9 years old from 52 different schools in Delta state
The team have visited seventy five communities in three different local government area ( counties ) in Delta state
The teams primary objective is to prevent unnecessary death From preventable diseases and illness
The health disparities team has been able to reach out to four hundred and twenty five thousand persons in the aforementioned areas with information on the causes, preventive and curative measures of Lassa fever, high blood pressure and diabetes
Apart from awareness creation, the team have also carryout free testing on high blood pressure and sugar level with the aid of grants provided by Full Circle Learning
A total of two hundred and twenty thousand persons have benefited from this outreach and we look forward to doing more
Because of the wide acceptability of the health disparities team's work, the team now work in close collaboration with the local ministry of orientation and the ministry of health in the areas of awareness creation and sensitizing the public of an impending immunization exercise
We have also trained six hundred teachers on first aid administration and we are currently working with the Nigerian Red Cross on CPR administration as heart failure is becoming too rampart in the areas we cover
Few organizations in this world have as much impact for their size. The mission of Full-Circle Learning is wonderful. Their educational work is vitally important in underserved parts of the world, including some communities in the United States. This organization should have a staff of hundreds and a budget of tens of millions. Keep up the great work.
I was first introduced to this organization and its founder at a festival celebrating the year's accomplishments and "Attitude of Gratitude" in 2011. Performances by children participating in the school programs, speaking with teachers, and enjoying the day with supporters, opened my heart to see that working together can, indeed, change the world. Learning to look beyond ourselves with compassion and understanding is not always taught at home nor in most schools today. The Full Circle Learning youth learn how to care for others in their communities and that they have the power to affect change for the better.
Stephanie Medina
Full Circle Learning represents the very best of the human spirit and our species triumphant journey. We were made to make a difference, touch lives and live our footprints in the sand of time. God's intended purpose for us is to live with humility and reverence for one another. We cannot do well by ourselves. We cannot touch others by ourselves. We cannot live our footprints by ourselves. We need each other to do all of these amazing and powerful things. This is exactly where Full-Circle Learning comes in. It's mission is to build character, foster academic excellence, integrate peacemaking skills into students and help young people to embrace their role as change agents and humanitarians of the next generation. Our world needs Full-Circle more than ever before. We need non-profits that can live an everlasting mark on a child. Moreover, the habits of the heart must be taught to every human being alive if they are to live to their fullest potential. My genuine prayer is that Full-Circle gains the momentum it deserves so that its mission and values can be taught in every school around the globe.
Faithfully submitted,
Rodney B. Hume-Dawson
Board Member
My name is Dr Farzin Rahmani and am trustee of Zambian Gems a UK Charity in charge of Blessed Vale School located in Chybolia Lusaka Zambia ,The School has over 650 Children. For the past few yearsFull Circle Learning has been a great supporter of Blessed Vale school . Volunteers from Full circle Learning have been visiting our school regularly and stay in Lusaka for few months every year .
The effect of Full Circle Learning on Blessed Vale school has been very positive ,the transformation of the kids has been so enormous that First President of Zambia ,Dr Kenneth Kaunda suggested to introduce FCL to every School in Zambia,it is a shame that shortage of human resources doesn't permit fulfilling Dr Kaunda's wishes.
Our organisation is in partnership with Full Circle Learning in South Africa and Gambia and we sincerely hope that this partnership will expand to other countries.
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