The Global Girls' Company performed 17 HIV information/educational shows and hosted workshops in eleven Illinois cities

during Chicago Public School's spring break from March 16th - 22nd.  This Living the the LIGHT tour was made possible by funds received

from the Illinois Department of Public Health and was sponsored in part by Harmony Health Plan.

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1. The Company opened for noted performer, Sheryl Lee Ralph at an HIV conference in Indianapolis in October '07.

2. The Company in Springfield, IL meeting with Senator Donne E. Trotter's office.

3. The Company with WGN TV Chicago Channel 9, Merri Dee at the Annual Legislative Recognition Luncheon in Springfield in April '08.

Thanks to all our sponsors, guests and volunteers

for supporting and making

Global Girls 4th Annual Performance Festival

a great success!!!

Special guest performers: Action Speaks Louder, ALYO Children's Dance Theater, Bailamos, Emerson Alums and Oba William King. We missed you Kuumba Lynx and D.I.O.R. and sorry you couldn't make it.

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We must recognize our friends who also showed support from Parkside Community Academy, Vanderpoel Humanities Academy, Park Manor Elementary, Horace Mann Elementary and Martha Ruggles School.

Thanks to all of our sponsors who make Global Girls a safe space where girls can grow into womanhood whole and healthy.

Global Girls Partners and Funders:

• After School Matter
• Alternatives Girl World Program
• Black United Fund of Illinois
• Chicago Foundation for Women
• Cricket Island Foundation
• FedEx
• Girl's Best Friend Foundation
• GoGirlGo!Chicago
• Harmony Health Plan
• Illinois Arts Council
• Illinois Department of Health
• Illinois Department of Human Service
• Illinois State Board of Education
• Jazz'N
• Kraft Foods
• MeadWestvaco Packaging Services
• Starbucks Foundation
• Polk Brothers Foundation

We visited Ghana, West Africa in September 2005  and January 2007, and will return in September 2008.

You can join us. 

Trip details will be available very soon!

Thank you for your donation!

Save the Date

Global Artists * Backyard Jam

Sunday, September 14th

Grand Crossing Park

Living in the LIGHT 2008 Youth Summit

Creating Graduation Generations

Saturday, October 9-12, 2008

Location TBA

More details coming soon!

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If you have seen Global Girls' performance Company perform their 'From Gross To Hope' HIV/AIDS awareness play and workshop, please post your response by clicking on the link below to begin.
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Thanks a bunch!

"I'm so glad my daughter joined Global Girls. She used to be shy and would always cling to me because she is the baby in the family. But now that she's been in Global Girls, she has joined organizations in school and is much more lively with her friends. I've even taken more risks since I started learning about the Global Girls way."

Vanessa McGee, mother of Global Girl Te'Reah Fields.