The Garrett-Jacobs mansion, home of the Engineers Club of Baltimore was the site of GPP's "Baltimore International Summer Camp," a week-long program exposing young people of inner-city Baltimore to the world…and the world in their community! Collaborating with Boys and Girls Club Staff- Alonda Simmons and Nikia Darden and a group of Boys and Girls Club interns serving as mentors, GPP project manager Ashley Donley led the planning effort that brought the kids to Egypt (through Egyptian Art at the Walters Art Museum), Italy (through bocce ball lessons in Little Italy) and Japan (an introduction to sushi). While the world’s athletes gathered in Beijing for the Olympic Games, the Baltimore International Summer Camp participants competed in athletic and engineering games, as they followed the medal count of the teams they represented.
GPP wishes to thank the Boys and Girls Club of Metropolitan Baltimore, the Engineers
Club of Baltimore, and the generous support of donors/sponsors including: Matsuri
Restaurant, Tortilleria Sinaloa, Dukem Ethiopian Restaurant, Baltimore Luxor
Alexandria Sister City Committee, the Frederick Douglass Isaac Myers Maritime
Park Museum, The Walters Art Museum, Pandola Adult Education Center in Little
Italy, and Mai Mashini, that made this project possible.
Global Pathways Project's Baltimore International Camp 2008 - Image Gallery