Welcome Note from Founder and Volunteer Director
A warm welcome to the members of over seventy-five countries!
My name is Dr. Munir Moosa, and I am the Founder and Volunteer Director of GFTE. Volunteer Director refers to the complete free sharing of knowledge and experience with the global learning community. I strongly believe in offering FREE services to humanity and teachers under an intellectual barter system. I volunteer for this forum for free and am proud of this wise and intellectual decision.
GFTE is a diverse knowledge-sharing forum, which aims at supporting the professional development of amateur as well as veteran teachers. Recognizing the absence of a forum for teacher educators, I founded GFTE on August 1, 2014. Initially, it worked as a virtual platform to keep teachers and researchers up-to-date about ongoing events; however, in due course of time, its vision and scope have expanded. From January 2016, the forum took the sustainable peace and human rights initiative by supporting the professional development of disadvantaged teachers, women, and children free of cost. We also support Green Education for building resilience.
One of its motives is to raise awareness among the children and youth regarding human values through extracurricular activities so that they can become active citizens and play an integral part in solving local and global issues. In the past, we raised small amount of money that was used for social causes- and we are proud of that good cause.
GFTE also provides free vocational and educational training to visually impaired teachers, violence-affected youth, and women.
GFTE has arranged several free competitions and recreational activities for children battling cancer, visually impaired children, and street children.
Our socio-eco ethical model works on the principle of disseminating awareness and supporting disadvantaged people in a dignified manner. For example, we have donated sewing machines to widows, enrolled a child battling with cancer to complete a beautician course, gifted sports shoes among girls of a marginalized community, arranged few medical checkups for visually impaired children, organized dinner dates for children of marginalized communities, provided hundreds of gifts to children battling cancer, visually impaired children and street children, donated cash to the orphanage and visually impaired organizations, helped a poor disabled man to start toy business on street, and many more. We acknowledge the contribution of children from various Pakistani educational institutions, who regularly participate in our International competitions (value-based). We also thank a few well-wishers, whose support keeps us going strong.
GFTE offers free membership to a few selective dedicated individuals every year. The membership demands individuals perform social activities in a year like teaching a girl child, spending quality time with people belonging to the marginalized community, or helping their community in any capacity. Upon completion of social tasks, members are expected to send us documentary evidence. In return, we provide a certificate of membership. There is no cost to avail membership. We only need your trust, good-will, punctuality, active participation, and willingness to serve the global community.
For the very first time, GFTE launched a series of free webinars for global researchers and teachers during March-May 2020. These webinars were voluntarily conducted by international speakers. We are now entering the phase of offering low-cost webinars to teachers.
GFTE also organized an International online conference where people from countries including Malaysia, Germany, Australia, Srilanka, Iraq, UK, USA, India, Canada, Pakistan, Jammu Kashmir, Turkey, China, Japan, Nepal, South Africa, Nigeria, Philippines, and Romania participated.
Today, we have members from the following countries: Canada, Malaysia, Romania, India, Australia, Philippines, UK. Egypt, USA, Pakistan, Srilanka, Nepal, Indonesia, Nigeria, Malta, Greece, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Albania, Korea, Jamaica, Denmark, Georgia, Bangladesh, Armenia, North Macedonia, Muscat, Honduras, Turkey, Japan, Jordan, Kashmir, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Cyprus, South Africa, Portugal, Ecuador, Egypt, Moldova, Slovenia, Tunisia, Ukraine, Serbia, Azerbaijan, China, New Zealand, Jammu and Kashmir, Russia, Korea. Thailand, Mexico, Libya, Tanzania, Sudan, Serbia, Chile, Dominica, Malta, Zimbabwe, and many more.
We are proud that more than half a 1 million teachers across the world have benefitted from the webinars, conferences and workshops at NO COST.
I work for his forum at no cost during my free time to promote human rights education among people belonging to disadvantaged communities. Sounds interesting! Would you like to be the part of it?
Give back to the community, you will rejoice!
Join us and be the agent of sustainable change!
Regards
Dr. Munir Moosa
Founder
Volunteer Director, GFTE