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Journey of Action profiles Global Citizen Corps as seen through the eyes of Amanda, a 16 year old high school student who discovered she was "part of something so much bigger" through the Global Citizen Corps Leadership program. OpenSourcery helped Mercy Corps develop "tools to actually take action" by building a multi-lingual bridge to connect students and educators across the globe.

Global Citizen Corps is an example of a great non-profit using technology in an innovative way, to achieve an even greater impact. At OpenSourcery we know great non-profits come in all shapes and sizes. A great nonprofit website doesn't need to move mountains or span cultural divides to have a big impact on your mission and services.

Interested in building a website to help drive the important mission of your charity, foundation, or public service organization?Drop us a line, we're here to help.

We've just published a write-up of our work for Mercy Corps, where we enabled hundreds of youth organizers worldwide to join together in a global community, including multilingual support in Drupal. Read all about it here:
http://www.opensourcery.com/portfolio/projects/mercy-corps-globalcitizen...

Mercy Corps’ Global Citizen Corps website is a platform that allows U.S. and Middle Eastern high school students to learn more about critical issues that impact the world, exchange ideas with peers and educators, and help build a powerful movement for change.

Creating an Informational and Social Hub for a Multi-Lingual World

MercyCorps is one of the largest global aid agencies in the world, providing disaster relief and assistance to more than 16.5 million people in more than 40 countries, with a staff of about 3,700 employees located around the globe. However, even though this respected organization has its own Drupal developers, when it was time to build its Global Citizen Corps website, they turned to OpenSourcery to develop it for them. There was one big factor OpenSourcery needed to consider when building an informational website that could also function as a social networking hub: readers not only required text to be translated from English to Arabic (or vice versa), but they needed to read from right-to-left or left-to-right, depending on their native language. Fortunately, OpenSourcery was able to construct a seamless solution to this tricky issue, utilizing a multi-lingual Drupal module and several other toolsets to create a leadership-fostering site that can be read by either English- or Arabic-speaking students with the click of a mouse.

Key Features:

• Full English and Arabic content, with full right-to-left and left-to-right support.
• Ability to add other languages in the future.
• Forums and discussion groups, where users can create and respond to threads.
• Take-action widgets that educate about important issues, suggest actionable solutions, and provide valuable resources.
• Ability to upload images and write blog posts.

Fostering an Environment for Global Change

As an integral part of this interactive website, OpenSourcery created forums so that users can exchange ideas with peers around the globe, learn more from field workers and anti-poverty experts, and discover new ways to take action. Today, U.S. and Middle Eastern high school students who are committed to ending global poverty can use GlobalCitizenCorps.org to learn more about issues like hunger, poverty, conflict, education, and climate change. OpenSourcery is proud to work with organizations like Mercy Corps and help facilitate discussion across geographical and cultural boundaries.