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The Global Language Network is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded and grown in DC by Andrew Brown since 2005, with the mission of “using language as a tool to help fix our world”. GLN does this through its immersive and engaging language classes which are open to the public, and particularly aims to impact changemakers such as the team of Red Cross doctors that learned Haitian Creole with GLN before a medical mission to Haiti, and the numerous beneficiaries of GLN’s Global Giver Fellowship, which awards free language classes to those who commit to using their GLN language skills for a greater good. Some Global Giver Fellows include Vanessa, using her GLN Portuguese for AIDs relief work in Brazil, Brennan, using her GLN Urdu to combat extremism in Southeast Asia, and David, using GLN’s Arabic to support his work with Arabic-speaking refugees at the UNHCR.
GLN embraces diversity and cross-cultural communication, engaging its 2,000 enrolled students in 180 classes, with 170 volunteer teachers; with the help of dozens of partners and approximately 100 volunteers (per year).
www.TheGLN.org
Email us: Info@TheGLN.org.
