Global Education
CAMBODIA
Glenn has maintained a longstanding relationship with the Methodist mission in Cambodia. Through its annual budget, it provides educational opportunities for students: from funding for primary education for street children, to scholarships for elementary, secondary, and college-level students. Currently it supports 30 Cambodian students, promising each one a scholarship that can continue through university completion.
Glenn’s investment in Cambodia also includes partial support for missionary Helen Comarce through the General Board of Global Ministries of The United Methodist Church.
With Alternative Giving Catalog funding, Glenn has supported school supplies and basic clothing for school children. Currently it supports an innovative multi-year scholarship for women who dropped out of school to return and complete high school. Several years ago, Glenn contributed heavily for the construction of a university women’s dormitory.
ZIMBABWE
For more than 20 years, Glenn’s annual budget has funded scholarships for students (now totaling 69) at the primary and secondary schools at Zimbabwe’s Munyarari Methodist Mission. The students and their families are vulnerable to harsh climate, widespread life-threatening disease, and severe poverty.
Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Education modestly supports its elementary schools, but it does not provide for such necessities as supplies, fees and uniforms. The Alternative Giving Catalog helps pay for these extra expenses. Glenn also raises funds through the catalog annually for a project that promises to improve the schools’ overall quality: adding classrooms; funding labs; building fishponds and bee hives to promote agriculture instruction and community food security; boring a well to enhance the sanitation system and fill the fishponds.
Glenn carries out its work in Zimbabwe through an agreement with PLAN INTERNATIONAL, a worldwide 501(c)(3) charity, whose mission is helping vulnerable children. PLAN reports to Glenn in detail several times a year on the distribution of funding, the progress of students, and the status of long-term projects.
AFRICA UNIVERSITY
Founded by The United Methodist Church thirty-five years ago in Old Mutare, Zimbabwe, Africa University has grown and developed into a very distinguished university. It provides academic excellence on a beautiful campus in the country’s lovely southeastern highlands. Pan African in both faculty and students, its 75 faculty members serve more than 2,300 students in more than 65 programs. The institution boasts over 12,000 graduates now living all across Africa, many of whom hold very responsible professional positions in such fields as government, business, education, health, and agriculture.
Africa University provides excellent higher education grounded in Christian values and nurtures transformative leadership competencies in students that are relevant for Africa’s development. Glenn Memorial contributes annually to the university’s scholarship fund to enable students to attend who could not otherwise enroll.
ECUADOR
Glenn’s annual budget provides support for the children’s ministries at the Methodist school, El Sembrado of Pastocalle, located in Ecuador’s parish with the highest percentage of indigenous people. It also partially funds missionary Sara Flores who works closely with local Methodist parishes and the schools they administer. Glenn’s funding provides scholarships for both girls and boys at the school. These young students also need uniforms and supplies, which Glenn’s Alternative Giving Catalog helps fund. Glenn funds in Ecuador are administered by the Ecuador Methodist Mission through the General Board of Global Ministries of The United Methodist Church.