Doctoral Program Director and Hallen Chair Sara Goodkind helped organize the first Camp GLOW in Romania in 1995 with two other Peace Corps volunteers and four Romanian teachers, for 82 girls aged 11 to 17. The week was a success, but they never imagined how widespread Camp GLOW would become.
Volunteers began serving in Romania in 1991. Sara Goodkind was an education volunteer in Buzau, Romania, 1994–1996, teaching English to middle and high school students. Using her previous experience working at summer camps, Sara; two other volunteers, Roz Edison and Jennifer Bobb Petramale; and their local counterparts began to plan a camp for their middle and high school students during the school holidays in the summer of 1995. Read more.