Ms Diana J. Muir and Safe Passage/Camino Seguro announced winners of Global education award

Dec. 14, 2010 - PRLog -- GLOBAL EDUCATION Award 2010 for best in Education and Livelihood  has been instituted on 2009, by Global Civil society CCLP Worldwide to recognize individuals, non-governmental organizations and degree granting institution from throughout the world that demonstrate extraordinary effort, innovation, leadership  and excellence in initiating and supporting educational efforts or support or campaign or project to humanity. CCLP Worldwide not only recognizes prominent and famous international NGOs and celebrity, but also the smaller, lesser-known non-government organizations (NGOs) and not very famous in the least developed countries, whose valuable contribution may have gone unnoticed and unappreciated on social front.
The award committee headed by Ambassador Sir Dr. Lamartine Hollanda Junior based in Brazil received number of nominations from around the world for coveted Global Education Award 2010 and the Members of Jury Committee took over five months to decide the winners of Global Education Award out of nine screened nominees of Global Education Award 2010.
Today 14th Dec, 2010, the chairman has announced the winner of Global Education Award 2010.The chairman and members of jury panel have unanimously decided and affixed their seal of confirmation to Ms Diana J. Muir from USA and Safe Passage/Camino Seguro from USA/ Guatemala in Individual category and Organizational Category respectively.
Dr. Diana J. Muir,The founder of the World Virtual School is , originally of Iowa City, Iowa. With more than 14 years in online learning, Dr. Muir is considered one of the pioneers in the field of online education.

Dr. Muir holds multiple degrees in a variety of subjects and received her double Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in June of 2000 in Technology and Social Change, and in Education. She also participated in a Distance Education Certificate program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a post-graduate degree program in education at Harvard University in the Summer of 2002.

Dr. Muir originally became involved with online learning in December of 1995 when she first launched 8 free online courses for genealogists; family historians who needed to know what records were available and how to do research. Since then she has created and launched more than 300 courses, from 6th grade to college level, in 5 different platforms. She has published at least 2 papers each year and has been published in Sociological and Education journals around the world, and has spoken at conventions such as The World Futures Society in Washington D.C., the Distance Learning Conference in Moscow, Russia, and at the Conference for International Distance Education in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Safe Passage / Camino Seguro has its mission of providing opportunity through education; fundamental collaboration amongst an international team of teachers, staff, volunteers and supporters; and commitment to the education and fulfilled aspirations of each student entering the program’s doors.
A US-registered non-profit humanitarian organization operating in Guatemala City, Guatemala, Safe Passage aims to bring an end to cyclical poverty through schooling and educational opportunities for nearly 550 children and 300 families who live and work unstably on the edges of the City’s garbage dump. The organization has been working in this community since 1999 to provide tools that bring hope, education, and opportunity to an impoverished and marginalized population that has been forced by need and lack of education to work as scavengers in Central America’s largest and most toxic landfill. In a world where inequality, poverty, illiteracy and other vast problems seem unsolvable, Safe Passage represents a cause that achieves real results. Safe Passage’s focus is not on despair but on building a brighter future for coming generations. In ten short years, over 550 children annually have passed through the arches of Safe Passage, with the promise to become teachers, en! gineers, mechanics, chemists and civic leaders, rather than the next generation of parents scave

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