By Valerie Hess | Project Leader
Since 1991 The Virtues Project™ has been bringing virtues, hope and guidance to families, schools and communities around the world.
As many of you know, The Virtues Project™ began as a response to a school shooting in the United States. The Founders were concerned with the growing violence among our youth. They pledged to do something to make a difference and The Virtues Project™ was born. This project has been introduced in over 120 countries through the efforts of the founders initially and now continues through the efforts of its global network of facilitators.
This year, Baltimore, Maryland gained 24 Virtues Project facilitators who are ready to bring the Strategies of The Virtues Project to their schools and organizations to promote peace, unity, and understanding. Your support helped fund Leaders Manuals for those new facilitators. And in Faribault, Minnesota, facilitators continue a community development initiative to bring The Virtues Project™ to their entire community. Your support helped reduce the cost of their teaching materials.
The Virtues Project™ is growing in Europe, Asia, Oceania and more. Teaching materials in many languages are needed. Your support has helped fund translations. This coming year, The Virtues Project Global Mentorship will be held in the Netherlands. Your support will help pay for scholarships to attend the mentorship where facilitators will gather for fellowship, sharing and learning from one another. Friends are welcome to attend the mentorship.
Reaching the whole world with The Virtues Project™ is a great ambition. Small steps in Tanzania, Africa, and Fiji are yielding wonderful results. Translation of the virtues cards in Swahili is currently happening in Tanzania. Fiji is waking up their puppets to get them on radio and to travel around and demonstrate how the Strategies of The Virtues Project™ solve the problems of abuse, particularly of women and children. In Kenya, both school and community development projects are expanding and reaching out to neighboring communities. Facilitators report back that schools are peaceful and loving learning communities, test scores are improving, truancy is low, parents are involved, and more. Community Development initiatives are bringing groups of adults together to learn how to loving support one another as they gain skills to bring their families together and communities out of poverty. Read more about our projects here.
In an effort to share the language of virtues with the masses, virtues apps in multiple languages are coming in 2019. You can learn more at www.virtuescards.org. And we have introduced a new deck of cards with practical application for home, school, and community. Character Cards is our newest deck of cards available on the Virtues Shop. Product sales help support our facilitators and the work of The Virtues Project™ on a global scale.
Your charitable contributions have made our work possible, and with your continued support, we will do even more in 2019 to support our mission, Bringing The Virtues Project to the World. We thank you for your kindness and generosity. Wishing all of you a joyful and prosperous New Year!
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