An ivy pull in tiny Gideon Park is making ripples halfway around the globe. 

Students from the Odyssey Multiage Program are raising funds to help young women in the island nations of Melanesia, through the Parks Foundation’s new ParksCorps program – doing well for their overseas peers, by doing good for Bainbridge Island parks.  

The students’ volunteer work is benefiting Melanesian Women Today, providing scholarships for girls who would otherwise be denied the educational opportunities kids here take for granted. 

“Everyone should be able to learn and have an education,” says Abby Myrick, an Odyssey seventh grader. “I feel like those girls who don’t get to learn there, I just want to help them so they can learn and do stuff with their lives that they want to do. I think that’s important.” 

Odyssey seventh and eighth graders are working at Gideon Park […]