The International Trends & Services Facet is focused upon providing a greater awareness of global issues and concerns, and how those global concerns affect us locally. The facet also seeks to provide exposure to our international communities, particularly those in Africa, using programs and initiatives to assist and strengthen communities throughout the world. Some of our Chapter’s International Trends & Services Programs include:
- Annual Easter Seals Holiday Party: sponsorship of holiday party dedicated to disabled children
- “A Conversation With Judges”: The Links in Partnership with the Girls Scouts of Palm Glades Council, Inc., and the F. Malcolm Cunningham, Sr. Bar Association, featuring Florida Supreme Court Justice, Link Peggy A. Quince, at the Palm Beach County Courthouse
- “Black Doll” Exhibition: exhibition sponsored by the Links at the West Palm Beach Library showcasing black dolls from personal collections and recent acquisitions; many of the dolls were shipped to South Africa to children who had been denied toys with black images due to apartheid
- “School In A Box” program: providing educational assistance, stipends, school supplies and materials to Rwandan and Liberian children and their teachers
- “Tour of Light”: dance troupe performance by eighteen Ugandan children orphaned by AIDS before 700 students at Northmore Elementary School
- “Project Global Link”: a yearlong mentoring project for 3 rd and 4 th grade ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) Students, including a performance by WOFA- drummers and dancers from West Guinea at the Duncan Theatre
