Please welcome Nicole Miller to the Ladybug Project team!

Nicole is a native Philadelphian who studied Political Science at Temple University. She currently works in the legal field and volunteers at the Liberty U.S.O. in her free time. She hopes to attend law school and work exclusively in the non-profit sector. Nicole will be working with The Ladybug Project, Inc. on the Annual Ghanian Youth Festival.

We are excited to welcome Autumn to The Ladybug Project Inc. today; she starts her Drexel Universit co-op employment with us! Throughout the next six months, Autumn will be planning outreach events, including a high-end fundraising event. In addition to gaining development and project management skills, she will be able to give back to Equatorial Guinea - a country she worked in, in 2008. Welcome Autumn!

For more information on how you can intern with has to meet your university internship requirements, please read this!

Michelle, our FGCU Intern, was invited to attend tthe FGCU President's dinner tonight as a Ladybug Project Club representative! Congratulations, Michelle!

We are excited to welcome Elise Mantell to our staff! She will be serving as a volunteer Public Health Grant Writer as part of our 2011-2012 initiative to widen our income sources. 

This initiative, launched last month, brings our grant writing and outreach potential to three individuals, each of which are working in concert and individually to help attract funding sources to our cause!

More information about Elise can be found on our team page!

We love acknowledging the dedication and hard work that our volunteers put into our projects...and now we have a new way of honoring their efforts: the President's Volunteer Service Award! That's right - from now on, any volunteer hours completed through our programs will be tallied towards earning a prestigious award!

For more information, check out our website page dedicated to the program: http://www.theladybugproject.com/presidents-volunteer-service-awards.html

For more information on how you can volunteer with us to help advance education and healthcare in Africa, please visit: http://www.theladybugproject.com/volunteer-with-us.html

We're so excited that Michelle and Stacie, two Florida Gulf Coast University students, volunteered with us this summer to complete their service-learning requirements! Stacie has been working on outreach programs with us while Michelle has started the great process of building up a Ladybug Project university student club!

For information on how you can volunteer with The Ladybug Project, check out our "Get Involved" page!


Check out the picture of Michelle and Kim after Michelle presented to The Ladybug Project Board of Directors!

We are excited to announce our new partnership with the Ghanaian registered NGO Bediako YouthAid Foundation! In addition, we are proud to report on the development of two unique internship opportunities that we have developed together with the YouthAid Foundation: our AIDS/HIV Health Educator Internship and our Teaching Internships, both of which take place in the Jasika-area of Ghana, West Africa!

For more information, please visit our page dedicated to this internship opportunity!