by Kelly Brantner | Nov 17, 2020 | Education, Youth
The Literate Earth Project (LEP) is pleased to announced this exciting new initiative! LEP takes pride in the fact that they have continually adapted and improved their working model—they have an iterative approach to everything they do. Their guiding principle is to...
by Kelly Brantner | Nov 13, 2020 | Education, Women's Advocacy
Congratulations and Happy Anniversary! This update was written by EGRC and sent to all of their donors and supporters. “Sunday, October 18 was a beautiful fall day in most cities across China. On that day over 180 EGRC university students, alumni and some...
by Kelly Brantner | Sep 22, 2020 | Education, Youth
This update is courtesy of The Literate Earth Project (LEP). Schools in Uganda have been closed since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, and as such the LEP libraries have been closed to the communities they serve. Fortunately, schools in Uganda will begin to open...
by Kelly Brantner | Jul 2, 2020 | Education, Youth
Congratulations to the Graduating Class of 2020! Educating Girls of Rural China (EGRC), shared this collage of the 30 girls that graduated from their undergraduate programs at universities in China and around the world. EGRC currently has 140 girls attending...
by Kelly Brantner | May 21, 2020 | BBS News, Education, Youth
This past March, BBS became a permanent vetted partner of GlobalGiving, the world’s largest fundraising platform. There are a tremendous number of benefits to becoming a partner including our ability to now, via GlobalGiving, issues tax receipts for causes to US and...
by Katie McGowan | Aug 3, 2017 | BBS News, Education, Social Entrepreneurship
Recently the BBS team took extreme off road vehicles from our partners at Maltec and drove them all the way from Berlin to Afghanistan in search of the legendary Wakhi people. Making the 6,000km journey into the belly of the 14,000ft high Wakhan Corridor, this was not...
