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September 28, 2009
STRONG GED ADVOCATES AT THE BRONX AMERICAN-CARIBBEAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
By Profesor Martin Danenberg
"El Quijote del GED"
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Something new in 2010. You can now order the GED program. It is so simple! Click on the word clic above my article (in the white section on the right). By clicking you can go to my website and find "Services" to order the GED program in English or Spanish. See the Pay Pal there. Thank you for taking this important, powerful step in your life. I really hope that a job or higher education awaits you, even induction into the military. Your future is important!
PAY PAL NOTICE
Something new in 2010. You can now order the GED program. It is so simple! Click on the word clic above my article (in the white section on the right). By clicking you can go to my website and find "Services" to order the GED program in English or Spanish. See the Pay Pal there. Thank you for taking this important, powerful step in your life. I really hope that a job or higher education awaits you, even induction into the military. Your future is important!
It was late in the Bronx when I was called up to speak about the GED, but never too late to speak about the GED. There I was with the Caribbean community in New York. There were people from St. Lucia, Barbados, Trinidad, Guayana, and other countries. Krystal Serrano was my keynote speaker in the Bronx years ago and there I was providing her and her community with the kind of empowerment that I am known for around the world. I called for an educational conference of all consulates in New York City and a conference of all New York City Housing developments. Krystal told all people connected with community programs to contact me if they plan to help people with the GED. Thanks Krystal! I agree with you and I hope that Caribbean communities everywhere do it , too. Oh there was a lot going on at the Inaugural Gala of the Bronx American-Caribbean Chamber of Commerce, including the fact that people told me that they are going to expand out to the rest of the city and offer solutions that we are all advocating (taking the show on the road). If I could travel from Suffolk County to provide solutions, we can all travel to places to help communities in great need.
I had the opportunity to talk about cutting down on the growing violence by helping the disconnected youth with the GED. There are around 140,000 disconnected youth among the almost 4 million disconnected youth in our nation and get this important fact. Only an average of about 12,000 adults earn the GED in New York City in a year. I would assume that the youth who earn the GED would be around 6,000 or slightly more of that 140,000, but they probably do not include gang members and other youth who get into trouble. Solution. Any youth interviewed by police detectives should get aggressive GED help. The word would get out onto the streets fast that the city really cares about them. Let us bring an initiative to the police and housing police that makes sense. It takes a village to educate a child and the police are part of that village. Aren't they? I told the people how I am partnering with William Bell who spoke about his son's death. I ended the speech that I made telling the audience that we must cut down on the gangs, the drugs, and the violence, something that was on the minds of people who organized the STV-SOC, INC. Let us tell the youth under 19 years of age that if they have been discharged from school for one year (17-18 years of age) that they can take the GED without going to class.
One important thing that I did not share during my speech is that each school with Title One funds for the parents can help me mobilize ten adults or more toward the GED. This will help us mobilize about 15,000 more people annually in the city and we could expect 6,000 or more diplomas from this effort.
WE WANT PEOPLE FROM THE CARIBBEAN TO HELP THEIR PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES AND THEIR COUNTRY OF ORIGIN WITH THE GED AND DROPOUT PREVENTION. THERE ARE OTHER IMPORTANT SOLUTIONS FOR HELPING PEOPLE GET OUT OF POVERTY. MAKE THE GED A GROWTH BUSINESS AND THERE WILL BE ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITIES.
MARTIN N. DANENBERG
7 BLAZER DRIVE
ISLANDIA, NEW YORK 11749
631-348-1341
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Profesor Martin Danenberg September 28, 2009 09:26 AM