Jeremy M. Goldberg, Founder/Director of GYPA and Diana Duarte, GYPA Women's Program Coordinator participated in the 2nd Annual Washington International School Symposium on Poverty on February 27, 2006.

Each year the symposium focuses on a significant global issue. This year it is poverty. Schools send teams (no more than four people) made up of teachers, administrators and students (grades 7-11 only).  Each school develop an action plan to address poverty by taking action in their schools and communities.

Jeremy and Diana presented to 3 roundtable groups of 20 people that included Elementary, Middle-School and High-School students and teachers about GYPA program options in the classroom and outside of the classrooms.  "We were intrigued with the enthusiasm and interest displayed by students and teachers at the WIS Symposium," Jeremy said, "We had been searching for an opportunity to expand our THINK AGAIN! program to younger students in the US and in Washington, DC.  It is thrilling that WIS invited us to participate and look forward to nurturing this new partnership."

For more information about the WIS Center for International Education visit: http://cie-wis.org/symposium/about.php