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Sponsor a Mother Helps AIDS Orphans »

Out of her Participation in Landmark Education’s Team Management Leadership Program (TMLP), London native Jo Lawrence has formed a project to assist AIDS orphans in the Sweetwaters community in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Titled ‘Sponsor a Mother’, the project works with Love is All You Need, a London based charity that impacts poverty and social conditions in South […]

Graduates Fight Deportation of Endangered Mother; Spotlight on Female Genital Mutilation »

Little did I know that my Self-Expression and Leadership Programme Project, World Community Day, which was held in Sligo, Ireland, in the Autumn of 2005, would have such far reaching effects. My commitment was to have the many new immigrants be formally welcomed and acknowledged by the public representatives of Sligo town.  I was particularly interested in Globe House where […]

Colorado Graduate Raises Hope, Holds Gala Fundraiser for Malawi Orphans »

When Corinne Hancock recently coached Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership program, her first thought was to do a small project. She was inspired about Raising Malawi, the organization founded two years ago by Michael Berg and brought to prominence by Madonna, that aids hundreds of thousands of orphan children living in the empoverished African nation. She thought she would do […]

Rwandan Patchouli: First Fair Trade Fragrance From Africa »

Celine Roche is the vice president of Sales and Marketing for natural ingredients at Mane, USA, the American division of a top global fragrance company. She is also a New York based graduate of the Landmark Forum. Out of her participation in Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership and program, Roche translated her commitment to Fair Trade and making […]

Joy to the World: Microloans Empower Women in Ghana »

Landmark Education graduate Kathleen Gibbs has founded Joy2theWorld.org, a non-profit microlending organization designed to empower women in Africa. Founded less than a year ago, Joy2theWorld has gone from being an idea to a reality that is already making a difference in the lives of thousands of villagers in Ghana.
When Kathleen Gibbs did the Landmark Advanced […]

Landmark Graduate Takes on Providing Dental Care in Refugee Camps »

Since 1992, Landmark Education graduate Dr. Christine Lathuras has travelled across the developing world to provide dental for those who lacked it. Recently she returned from two refugee camps in Tanzania, where she and two colleagues spent three weeks training local volunteers with to perform dental surgery. The trip was funded by Health Volunteers Overseas (HVO), […]

Visionary Landmark Education Graduate Ends Vacation; Builds Schools in Kenya »

It’s a hard to think of a person who embodies the boldness of unstoppability of Landmark Education graduates more than Paul Boutin. In December of 2006, he went to Kenya for a 10-day safari. He didn’t make it through the first day. On that first morning, he noticed an unfinished building and asked about it. […]

Self-effacing Landmark Education Graduate’s Charity Run is in it’s 14th Year »

Lyle Smith is a Landmark Education Graduate and former coach in the Self Expression and Leadership Program. 14 years ago he while participating the Landmark Curriculum For Living, he created a Charity Run Called Lyle’s Myles. As the son of Missionaries he grew up in the Congo as the Aids epidemic began to spread in […]