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The Upside Highlight: The Global Village Project

Every once in awhile, The Upside would like to bring your attention to a cause that we know about, we are working with and that we strongly believe in and stand behind. This week we’re bringing you a school in Decatur, Georgia called The Global Village Project.

The Global Village Project is a nonprofit transitional school for refugee girls displaced by conflict around the world. Their mission is amazing. They take refugee girls who have had interrupted education and take them through a middle school program designed to fundamentally prepare them for American high school.

A Lifetime of Recycling By A Georgia Man Does Good For More Than Just The Environment

Recycling started off as a lesson about healthy money habits that Johnny Jennings wanted to teach his son, Brent. Back in 1985, they started collecting and selling paper and putting the proceeds into a savings account. By the time Brent Jennings was old enough to go to buy his first house, he and his father had recycled so much paper and other waste, that he had enough money saved up for a down payment.