Landmark Education News Blog By Landmark Forum Graduates

Vanessa and Ben Henneke took part in Landmark Education’s Self Expression and Leadership Program in 1997. In 1998, Anglican Bishop Simon Chiwanga of the Diocese of Mpwapwa in Tanzania invited a team of missionaries from Truro Church led by Vannesa and Ben Henneke for an initial seminar in Small Group Servant Leadership. An initiative began [...]

Clean water is a precious in many parts of Africa. One of those places is the Bumpe Chiefdom in Sierra Leone.   Through the efforts of Sarah Culberson and the Kposowa Foundation she started, Rotary International and several of it’s supporting clubs have combined resources to donate $50,000 for the constructions of new wells in [...]

Shana Dressler, the Landmark Education graduate and photographer from New York City who raised money for the poor and awareness of the Indian deity Ganesh (see our previous story in Landmark Education News about Dressler’s multimedia project), has a new venture: Global Giving Circle, a group of people dedicated to finding creative and innovative solutions [...]

Mars Tanumihardja used his participation in Landmark Education's Self-Expression and Leadership program to create a benefit concert to raise funds for some of the poorest people in central America. Tanumihardja arranged for the concert to be held at the Newman Center at the University of Washington, where he is the head of the music ministry. [...]

Chicagoan Sean Parnell took on a big problem in his Self-Expression and Leadership program–The problem of abandoned homes or lots. Many houses or lots, particularly in poorer west and south side neighborhoods, have stood empty for many years. Parnell saw that this creates many problems for the community, from the use of those properties for [...]

Joy2theWorld is a one year-old non-profit microcredit provider to parts of Ghana, West Africa, founded by Kathleen Gibbs, who was inspired to create the organization through her participation in Landmark Education’s programs. According to a recent release, Joy2theWorld is significantly expanding its microcredit loans to the businesswomen in several villages comprising approximately 10,000 people in rural Medie, Ghana, when the [...]

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 [...]

G.V. Bhat lives in Sirsi, India, a small town with a problem common to rural India: no jobs, or more accurately, no middle class white collar jobs. This problem causes educated youth to leave the villages they grew up in as soon as they are of working age, overpopulating the cities and emptying rural communities. Bhat took Landmark Education’s Self-Expression [...]