Thank you for visiting. The GDP is proud to announce that we are a registered non-profit organisation in the state of Georgia, USA. We seek your support and company in our GDPcorps and its divisions to include BRAVO company, EDUcorps, and Nyakoicorps.
BRAVO Company.
This is the home of The GDP’s disaster relief volunteer corps. Friends living in any nation will belong to that local chapter of BRAVO company. The local chapters will be associated with a national and regional body for more efficient coordination of training, deployment and care which will be undertaken by the Volunteer Committee of The GDP’s board of Directors. This committee will manage a database of relevant information of our volunteers and we encourage you to liaise with your local, national, and regional coordinators once you place yourself.
EDUcorps.
As we develop a more permanent cadre of teachers and administrators, we will rely very heavily on the support of friends who are current and retired certified teachers to nurture the students of Savanna Academy. It is anticipated that we will partner with one or more established schools for curriculum and structure. We encourage our senior teachers and husband and wife team educators to assist and guide us. A comprehensive lodging and compensation regime will be put together to encourage your favourable consideration. The Volunteer committee of The GDP’s board of directors will concern itself with your satisfaction and pleasant experience. The Education Committee of the same board will handle more detailed administrative and curricular matter.
Nyakoicorps.
This is the home of our medical service personnel to include Opthalmologists, Optometrists, such surgeons, pharmacists, anaesthesiologists, medical technicians, nurses, and medical assistants. The corps members will be overseen by our resident surgeon and assisted by the Vision Institute’s student Opthalmology CLub. The Vision Instuitute will be managed by an independent staff in coordination with the Savanna Academy administration. A fulfilling and pleasurable experience undoubtedly awaits you. The Vision Institute will be supported by an established opthalmologic organisation which will be the primal destination of students of the JOHM fund.
We will endeavour to reach out to you personally as we form. However, we may not be able to reach all our friends for want of contact information. We encourage you to reach out to us if you find our mission and projects desirable and of interest to you. We are:
1. Name, email-address, country and city of residence, telephone number, and education (CV).
2. Skills and experiences.
3. Any restrictions and or inhibitions for travel.
4. Area of interest.
We encourage you to suggest a partnership between The GDP and your employer to facilitate your travel and participation in our Disaster Relief training sessions which will be scheduled on rotational bases. An allowance of a week/year will be adequate. Should you prefer that we speak with your employer for such facility, please give us express written permission for such. We will develop a cadre of philanthropic organisations throughout the world which will afford us such comprehensive training and relief coordination.
When process is complete, you will receive information on the name and team leader of your area’s GDPcorps coordinator. Thank you for your support and regard.
Vision for BRAVO company
Some years ago, it became evident to me that disasters do affect the best people at the most inopportune times. Some disasters are natural and by and large cyclical as the seasons of the year. They occur with marked precision in ecological time but they seem to take us by surprise. Some natural (cyclical) disasters may not be avoided but their effects and affects can be rendered benign by judicious choice of settlement, foregoing extraction of the earth’s structural minerals (fossil fuels), avoiding undue excess, and choosing a sustainable course for development as our populations multiply in geometric fashion. Some of these natural disasters are the rectification of imbalance in one area by relief elsewhere. Other natural disasters take us by surprise because we fail to monitor their development and take cover as they climax. Out of all disasters, a good number of them are effectively man-made out of sheer neglect, unsustainable development, and opportunistic war.
Be that as it may, and as we ammend our ways to prevent those that are within our capacity to prevent, we are still left with those disasters that affect one part of our world as rectification of imbalance in another part. To the extent that the affected people are not aware of the innuring imbalance, they are taken by surprise and caught unprepared. We therefore must put together a system of Relief and mitigation programs in all parts of the world at the ready to give aid and comfort to the afflicted. It is indonesia today, Pakistan tomorrow, the congo next, the US, Europe, Africa, Australia, New Zealand and pacific Isles, Gambia, Mali, Senegal, Tananarive, Lappland, the low countries (Les pays bas) and then Miyanmar tomorrow.
It is this understanding of natural disaster and its attendant unpredictabilities that the idea of BRAVO company aims to ameliorate to whatever extent possible. We envisage that BRAVO company will be an elite standing army of global volunteers, well trained and experienced, resourced and at the ready to lend a hand in any of the brotherhood of nations where disaster occurs.
For ongoing training and preparedness, we intend to partner with organisations which are already engaged in disaster relief, friendly governments, specialized companies worldwide, and philanthropic individuals and agencies. So no matter where you reside on earth, you can register in a local Bravo company and you will be afforded year-round training and chance experience when disaster strikes. Join us. The life you save may be your own.
We will develop Bravo Companies in as many parts of the world as possible and augment the capacity and resources of existing relief agencies. We will work to become affiliate units of established relief agencies and work in unison to coordinate mitigation and post- disaster regeneration. We will develop the idea further and we encourage you to visit again for updates and to become part of The GDPcorps and Bravo Company in your part of the world. haruna@thegdp.org
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