Honorable mentions

     Now you may be getting the idea of how big this village is at this point, there are so many things Give Kids the World offers that a week is just not enough time to fit in each location (as far as a volunteers schedule goes). Nicole and I have had the opportunity to volunteer at almost all of the events/locations with in the village. However, there are two places I would like to share with everybody, Nicole and I stopped by each place but did not spend time volunteering in these two locations. 

     First is the Gallery of Hope, which I like to think of as Give Kids the World's very own museum. The gallery is open daily and has 4 different rooms if I am remembering correctly. The first room is a tribute to the creator of Give Kids the World, Henri Landwirth. I am actually reading a book written by Henri about his life journey, ask me in about a week more about him. One of the pictures below (if you can read), is a brief description of Henri written by John Glenn. The next room consisted of many posters, each poster represented all of the attractions within the village. The images I posted below are of the descriptions that were on some of the posters explaining how the attraction came to be. Another room was dedicated to the sponsors of Give Kids the World and the last room was filled from floor to ceiling of images of volunteers, families, and everybody else who makes the village possible. The Gallery is based off the idea of hope and everything inside of it is based on the idea of giving hope to others.

     The other location is the life sized Candy Land. One of the images above should explain the creation of the Candy Land, but in case it is hard to read here is another explanation of how it came to be. In 2006 a Hasbro employee visited the village with his son, after their stay the employee returned to Hasbro reporting the amazing experience they had at Give Kids the World (GKTW). This connection created and strengthened a relationship between Hasbro and GKTW which generated the Candy Land edition of GKTW (which I now own!). Through this connection Hasbro funded the creation of the life size Candy Land located in Matthew's Boundless Playground, named after the son of the Hasbro employee previously mentioned. Every week the children staying at the village partake in a Candy Land game where they themselves are the game pieces.