"LET THERE BE MAGIC" - Earvin "Magic" Johnson visits Tenafly, enabling Global Care to raise $65,000 to construct a high school wing at its Ethiopian sister school and offer disaster aid to Haiti."

• Tsehainy.com - An online Ethiopian Magazine for NY & NJ Area: Global Care Unlimited Receives a 'Magic' Hand, 2/16/2010

  
  
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• "Magic" Touch supports aid for Ethiopia" (1/25/2010, The Record). - pdf

• "Global Education: Global Care uses some Magic to fundraise" (1/28/2010, The Suburbanite). 
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• NY1 -TV report: NBA Legend Joins Tenafly Fundraiser, 1/25/2010
  

• WABC -TV, Eyewitness News, Channel 7, Seen this morning, Let There be Magic in NJ, 1/22/2010 

ETHIOPIAN SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION INITIATIVE (2007 – Present)

Greco-African Event at Axia Taverna in Tenafly brings community together in raising $23,000 to complete sponsorship of 12-classroom wing at Ethio-American Friendship School (6/23/08)

• Global Care in Ethiopia: Nonprofit raises enough money for new school (7/9/2008, The Suburbanite) - pdf

GCU Demarest Chapter holds fundraiser carnival to raise $8,700 toward classroom construction at Ethiopian sister school (6/5/08)

• Raising money with food, fun, (6/17/2008, The Suburbanite) - pdf

GCU Tenafly Middle School Chapter attracts over 700 attendees to “Gebzha African Festival & Silent Auction” and raises $16,000 toward classroom construction at Ethiopian sister school (3/28/08)

• Jersey pupils reaching out to Ethiopians (4/18/2008; The Star Ledger) - pdf
• The gift of knowledge: Tenafly students helping build school in Ethiopia (3/29/2008; The Record) - pdf
• Tenafly students raise money for school in Africa (4/9/2008; The Suburbanite) - pdf
• Yohannes Gebregeorgis recognized as a CNN Hero for bringing literacy programs to Ethiopia

Ethiopian School Construction Kickoff Event with partner and Ethiopian literacy activist, Yohannes Gebregeorgis (11/19/07)

• “Education From One School” (11/28/07; The Suburbanite) - pdf

CAMBODIAN HUMANITARIAN INITIATIVE (2004-2006)
Global Care Kicks off “Cambodian Humanitarian Initiative” with countywide “Eye on Cambodia” Youth Leadership Conference (10/26/09)

• Harsh Lesson in Reality: Pupils Learn of Life-and-Death Struggles in Cambodia” (10/27/04, Bergen Record)

YOUTH DELEGATION TRIP TO CAMBODIA (2005)
Six middle and high school members of Tenafly Global Care Chapter take remarkable 2-week journey through Cambodia (February 2005)

• “From Sylvan Tenafly to the Killing Fields” (3/18/05, Bergen Record)

SYMPOSIUM ON CAMBODIA & LANDMINES (2004)
Khmer Rouge Genocide survivor and award-winning human rights activist, Arn Chorn-Pond, delivers spellbinding keynote address to Tenafly Middle School (4/21/04)

• “Peace Activist’s Powerful Message” (4/22/04, Bergen Record)

LANDMINE REMOVAL INITIATIVE (2000-2002)
Global Care organizes and host countywide youth leadership conference:  “Youth Coalition for Mine Action Conference” (3/7/02)

• “Students Proud of Anti-Landmine Work” (6/12/02; The Suburbanite) - pdf
• “A Potent Weapon Against Mines” (3/19/02; The Star-Ledger)
• “Jersey Teenagers Change the World” (3/08/02; Bergen Record)

Tenafly Middle School Landmine Awareness Club of Global Care Unlimited, Inc. sponsors demining of village in Bosnia-Herzegovina (2000-2001)

• "Healing the Wounds of War” (2/09/01; Bergen Record)
• “Toll of Landmines Stir Compassion in Tenafly Students” (2/09/01; The Star-Ledger)
• “Tenafly Students Raise $18,000 to Clear Landmines in Bosnian Village" (2/09/01; Associated Press)
• “New Jersey Middle School Students to Help Demine Bosnian Village” (2/08/01; U.S. Dept. of State Press Statement)
• "Mine Victim Visits TMS Students" (12/27/00; The Suburbanite) - pdf
• “Middle School Students Present Reading at State Department on Landmine Threat” (7/10/00; U.S. Dept. of State Press Statement)
• “Students Take Deadly Aim at Landmines” (4/18/00; Bergen Record)

Periodicals

• “Kids on a Mission: Tenafly Students Take Aim at Landmines” (August 2004, Englewood Magazine) - pdf
• Making Strides: Students Tackle the Landmine Awareness Problem” (May/June 2002 Journal for Mine Action)

Articles by Mark Hyman

• “Nurturing Compassion and Global Citizenship in Youth: An Educator’s Guide for Developing and Promoting a Successful Mine Action Service Initiative” (published as a Chapter contribution in Nurturing the Peacemakers in Our Students: A Guide to Writing and Speaking Out About Issues of War and of Peace, edited by Chris Weber, 2006)
• “Connecting a Global Service Initiative to the Classroom” (published in New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) Review, May 2006) - pdf
• "A Firsthand Experience With mine Action: On The Ground with the Organization of American States in Nicaragua" (Fall 2002 Journal for Mine Action) - pdf
• “One Step at a Time: A Landmine Removal Initiative” (May/June 2002, Middle Level Learning)
• “A Transformative Experiment in Creating a Culture of Nonviolence” (Published in Fellowship Magazine, May/June 1999)