center for global & local outreach
 
 
 
The Center for Global and Local Outreach provides outreach services for each Center of the Memnosyne Foundation. It serves to disseminate information in public forums, stimulate collaboration between social advocates, and provide funding to people and communities requiring small financial assistance to advance global cooperation and sharing of knowledge.
Memnosyne Ambassador Coach Bob Szyman helps disabled Guatemalan youth improve their wheel chair basketball skills 2007.

Outreach Collaboration
 The Memnosyne Foundation serves as a catalyst and facilitator for cooperation between organizations and individuals to explore ways that they can best serve common interests in creative, efficient and effective ways. Events serve as a vehicle to promote public awareness and future engagement.

Memnosyne sponsored a public event featuring a video of the play Truth in Translation in Brooklyn, New York in collaboration with the Embrey Family Foundation, New York Interfaith Center and the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The event was to encourage victims of the 1980 Liberian military coup to begin a healing process by sharing their stories of grief. Before the event, only a handful of people had told their stories in the previous years. After the event, hundreds did so.

 
 
     
Memnosyne coloring book project in Rwanda.
   Cultural Exchange Program
The Cultural Exchange Program promotes global understanding between diverse cultures. Recent exchanges occurred between the Hopi and the Toltec who share a common ancestry.

Ambassador Program
The Project provides travel for scholars, practitioners and spiritual leaders to attend and/or participate in events that foster the Foundation’s mission.

  • Memnosyne recently provided the opportunity for Ricardo Cervantes, founder of the Cultural Center for the Indigenous People of Teotihuacán to attend the Seeds of Compassion event in Seattle and meet with indigenous people from the Pacific Northwest and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. During his visit, Mr. Cervantes consulted with the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco, California; conducted several “blessing ceremonies” in Austin, Dallas, New York City and the Hopi Nation.
  • The Foundation sponsored Bob Syzman, a renowned wheelchair basketball coach to travel to Guatemala to teach disabled youth how to improve their health through basketball.
  • Memnosyne made a grant to physical therapist Sara Khanzadeh to travel to
    Viet Nam to teach workers to treat on the job injuries.

Coloring Book Program
In collaboration with Project Palette, the Memnosyne Foundation created, published and distributed coloring books to children in Tanzania, Rwanda and the Hopi Nation. The coloring books are designed to introduce young people to diverse cultures, races, geography, and religious traditions. They contain illustrations of children throughout the world in their native dress.

Micro Empowerment Grants
The project provides communities with small one-time financial grants to provide a financial push to generate economic sustainability. Memnosyne funded the reconstruction of a broken kiln for a Batwa village in Rwanda.

Laptop Computer Program
The project provides support for communication among indigenous communities around the world to share information. A current identified need is with the Masai Tribe in Tanzania.

     
Coke Buchanan, Director of the Center for Global & Local Outreach
cokebuchanan@memnosyne.org
 
 
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