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Global Playground, a nonprofit founded in 2006, builds schools in developing countries. To date, GP has built a primary school in Uganda, a middle school in Cambodia, and a library in Northern Thailand; GP is also about to announce a project in Honduras. To date, GP has given more than 1000 children the opportunity to learn. Once GP has built its schools, it promotes cross-cultural dialogue among them and between them and schools here in the United States. To date, for example, GP has facilitated a video exchange between kids in Uganda and third graders in Brooklyn; an artwork exchange between kids in Thailand and fifth graders in Boston; and a digital photo exchange between kids in Honduras and eighth graders in Fairfax County, Virginia.

Now, GP announces a program for teachers. Your students can help us build new schools. For a donation of $5,000, your students can sponsor one of our new schools. And for a donation of $30,000, your students can help plan and build a school at a location of their choice, anywhere in the developing world. Once the school is built, you -- the teacher -- will travel to the school (costs of travel are included) to help us facilitate cross-cultural dialogue between its students and yours. Your students will communicate with children abroad, via technology where infrastructure allows, and verbally or nonverbally, depending on whether languages are common or different. Your students will gain insight into their own lives and the lives of children halfway around the globe. The result will be life-changing.

GP plans to launch its new program for its school project in Honduras. There are a limited number of spaces remaining for schools to help fund the Honduras project. Following Honduras, your students will decide where we go next... Africa? Asia? Eastern Europe? South America? the Middle East?

GP expects places to fill quickly. For more information about GP, see www.theglobalplayground.org. Interested? Write to info@theglobalplayground.org.