LONGITUDE is a Rhode Island based 501 (c)3 non-profit organization working with visionary leaders of grassroots educational and human rights initiatives in resource-poor countries.  Currently we are aiding a community secretarial school in Ghana, and a human rights organization in India that helps members of India’s lowest caste.  Please take a few minutes to learn more about our projects and how you can help.  Welcome! 


OUR MISSION

Longitude's mission is to empower visionary leaders of grassroots educational and human rights initiatives in developing countries by providing them with resources, volunteers, and support services.  Longitude facilitates volunteer opportunities in conjunction with our foreign partners, raises funds for project growth and improvement, and provides material and programmatic support for the foreign NGOs with whom we collaborate.


THREE YEAR REPORT

Since its inception, Longitude has reached out locally and expanded globally. In three years Longitude has expanded from a vision into an international network of programs, volunteers, and fundraisers. With this tremendous growth it is appropriate to look back and examine Longitude’s success to date.  This report will provide a basic overview of Longitude and its two programs: ARV and PROFESA.  Click here to read the full three year report.

"Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all people cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends."


Maya Angelou

Professional Secretarial Academy of Ghana (PROFESA) is a non-profit secretarial and job training school in Abeka, Ghana, run by Meshach Bondzie

LONGITUDE PROJECTS

Association of Relief Volunteers (ARV) is an Indian non-profit working on issues of human rights and caste discrimination in rural Indian villages.  ARV is run by Ravi Kumar.

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Longitude Television News Interview

Providence, RI - Channel 10’s Kelly McGee interviews Longitude President, Shawn Rubin, about Longitude’s Work in Ghana.

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In India

The Children’s Feeding Center Campaign, has been up and running for more than a year now.   Help keep this valuable program that is nourishing the children in the same villages where the KI Housing campaign is building right now.  Help us support this integral project for another year.ARV_CFC.htmlARV_CFC.htmlARV_CFC.htmlshapeimage_6_link_0shapeimage_6_link_1
Providence Teacher Arrives in Ghana
Judah Lakin, a Hope High School teacher in Providence, RI has just arrived in Ghana for a summer of collaboration and teaching at both the PROFESA school and a Junior Secondary School in Meshach’s home town of Abeka...MORECross_Cultural_Teacher_Collaboration.htmlCross_Cultural_Teacher_Collaboration.htmlCross_Cultural_Teacher_Collaboration.htmlshapeimage_7_link_0shapeimage_7_link_1
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