The Empathy Project: About Us

About Us

Lotus flowers have a unique characteristic in that its roots are planted at the bottom of a pond or river in the muck and mud. Slowly as they grow, the bud turns to the surface and starts to grow upwards towards the water and the sunlight. Once the lotus flower finally gets to the top of the water the bud begins to open up and reveal a beautiful flower inside.

Just like the lotus flower, most of us will make a similar journey seeking to become all that is true, good, and beautiful. We at the Empathy Project, believe the lotus flower is a metaphor for the transformative power of education. Education can overcome difficult beginnings and reveal the beauty that lies within each individual.

It is time to achieve sustainability, empowerment, transformation, and peace on this planet; the very purpose of education.

About the Empathy Project
About Magaly Madrid
Our Sponsors
Our Partners

The Empathy Project envisions a world in which every child is healed, transformed, and inspired through education. To create this change, the Empathy Project provides tools for living an examined, meaningful life; sponsors educational programs, and builds schools for underpriviledge children.

The Empathy Project is committed to furthering the United Nations Millennium Development Goals and it is involved in many UN related projects. We are particulary focused on furthering Goal #2: Universal Primary Education by 2015 and work with local communities, Ministries of Education, and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in providing the gift of an education to children worldwide and making an extraordinary impact to this global issue.

If you share The Empathy Project's vision in a more compassionate and engaged humanity through education and the eradication of poverty, we offer many ways to make a tax deductible donation to directly support our mission. The Empathy Project is a 501 ^{(c) (3)} not-for-profit organization. To make a donation or to designate your donation to a particular project please email us at info@educatingforgreatness.org

Magaly Madrid is the founder and director of the Empathy Project and has been offering programs to schools, community organizations, and international NGO's since 2006. She is a certified elementary teacher and a Certified Humane Education Specialist (C.H.E.S) through the Humane Society University.

Through a partnership with UNESCO-Lima, Magaly has inspired greatness through education for hundreds of children in Peru. She is currently building and sponsoring schools and supporting children and teachers affected by the destructive earthquake that hit the Southern Region of Lima in 2007. Her goal is to open more schools and educate more needy children across Latin America and beyond.

She is the President of the United Nations Association Greater Miami Chapter. Magaly is an Ambassador for Peace appointed by the Universal Peace Federation.

Magaly is also the Millennium Development Ambassador appointed by Nigeria Chapter of Teachers without Borders and the African Regional Millennium Development Advisory Council, as recognition of her past efforts, on-going responsibilities, and in a part of the Teachers Without Borders worldwide efforts to facilitate the realization of a new globally developed world without borders, where all people live together in mutual prosperity and interdependence as members of one global family.

She is also the Program Director for the Healing Species Miami program and has developed it into a bilingual program. Magaly is presently on the Advisory Committee of the Center for U.S.Global Engagement and is working in their Impact '08 Florida Campaign.

Magaly has spoken at a variety of workshops and conferences, including Humane Educators Reaching Out (HERO) in Palm City, Florida, Ambassadors for Peace Reception; Rotary International Club of Miami, the Kiwanis Club of Miami, and the International Institute for Human Understanding Annual Conference.

Magaly holds a Bachelor's degree in Humane Leadership from Duquesne University. Presently she is working on a Masters of Education at Cambridge College.