eMi UK: June 3 – 20, 2010 “To feed an African child is good, but to educate an African child is better” The African Dream Academy, is a Christian organization that is passionately dedicated to making Liberia and Africa a better place to live by starting with the most significant members of our home, community, country, continent and world –our young people and children. The African Dream Academy started ten years ago with 28 orphans after the war in Liberia, West Africa. It is now reaching thousands, with over 6300 children and youth reached last year. ADA has passionately embarked upon a journey to empower African youth and children to achieve their dreams. After ten years of working with youth through VBS/Dream Camp in Liberia, ADA is taking a new approach to poverty reduction and sustainable development in Liberia, West Africa. They will do this by empowering the African youth and kids to achieve their dreams by providing a high caliber education that addresses their spiritual needs as well as providing them with technical skills without any undue cost to the student. We strongly believe that in order to change their lives, these students must be empowered to achieve their dreams. It is from this conviction that the African Dream Academy was born. Upon completion, the African Dream Academy will be an independent, coeducational, privately endowed world-class Christian educational institution. ADA will provide: kindergarten through 12th grade education, orphan housing …
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Forces To Be Reckoned With In The Aero-Educational World Team Up It’s really tough to know who to trust in the aviation education business these days… stories like the frauds surrounding the Silver State Helicopter mess, as well as other such catastrophes, certainly give someone thinking of an aviation education a reason to pause. So… when two of the best known and most highly regarded names in the aero-educational industry decide to cooperate on something, you know you have a good deal. The big news (and the subject of this Aero-TV feature) is that Delta Connection Academy and Embry Riddle Aeronautical University have partnered up on a program that gives students who earn their tickets at Delta Connection Academy a solid 36 credit hours toward a degree. To those looking for a solid way toward an airline career (which favors those applicants with a degree), this manna from heaven. These are two of the industry’s heaviest players — with a heck of a pedigree. ERAU notes that on December 17, 1925, exactly 22 years after the historic flight of the Wright Flyer, barnstormer John Paul Riddle and entrepreneur T. Higbee Embry founded the Embry-Riddle Company at Lunken Airport in Cincinnati, Ohio. The following spring the company opened the Embry-Riddle School of Aviation. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University began with a simple plan to train airplane pilots. Today, Embry-Riddle is a leader in aviation and aerospace higher education. Embry-Riddle is an independent …