Vision
By providing our educators, children and their families with a safe environment & knowledge in how to reach their own health & safety goals, we help families and children to grow resilient for a strong future.
Mission
Reynolds’ Provisions provides creative educational, environmental & safety solutions to educators and educational organizations.
Philosophy
Reynolds’ Provisions believes that every young child & their families need an education and an educational environment, that incorporates current environmental factors of their immediate surroundings to be and remain safe, now and in the future. We believe that education & services should include the environmental factors: weather patterns, expected seismic activity, crime statistics, home stemmed violence, food insecurities and survival skills.
Reynolds’ Provisions Beginning
•Dr Rebecca began using the name “Reynolds’ Provisions” in 2010 when providing specific items to homeless shelters, schools in low-income areas, and other social services that provide for the education towards environmental independence. Items provided include but are not limited to:
•Books, technology, weather specific needs, hand-sewn face masks, hand-sewn toddler blankets & Holiday wish lists for programs dedicated to education towards independence.
•International support began in 2016, during a trip by Dr Rebecca to Vietnam and Malaysia – now giving support to the efforts of governments to provide services to families with children who struggle with special needs through video & webinar services.
•In 2017 - Assistance to Puerto Rico immediately following massive hurricanes providing books and stuffed animals to children suffering from PTSD
•International support was furthered in 2019 to Liberia, providing books & supplies to schools recovering and building new after years of war.
FULL INCORPORATION AS Reynolds’ Provisions NFP Inc. on June 08, 2023!
Chairman: Dr Rebecca J Reynolds M.A., EdD
Dr Reynolds is a founding board member of Reynolds’ Provisions, who has had many different wonderful experiences & roles in education. She recently presented with Cambridge University & National Geographic Learning to assist in developing an educational program in Istanbul, Turkey.
She also develops teacher training tools training & assisting both Special Educators and General Education classroom teachers providing meaningful experiences in Expeditionary Learning.
Through Reynolds’ Provisions, Dr Rebecca hopes to spread the work of ecological education. By ensuring the education of school children, staff and community in the areas of self reliance, safety and environmental independence, together we can be sure that our future generations will not only survive but excel.
We aim to provide instillation and education in green energies into our planets schools. We also want to install new safety materials and protocols into our international schools. This can include tornado safe building, bullet proof windows, hurricane safe structures, etc. Besides providing these items to schools that would not typically be able to afford them. we aim to provide teacher education. This teacher education will assist our educators in how to teach our children very specific survival skills they may need were there any type of emergency.
Board member: Dr. Helga Hambrock
Founding board member, Secretary & Senior Instructional Designer & Adjunct Professor at Concordia University Chicago. Dr. Helga Hambrock has been active as an educator in public and private schools in urban and rural areas in South Africa, since completing her Undergraduate Degree.
After her husband passed away, she completed her Masters and Doctoral studies in Education and Technology, and entered the Higher Education environment. She moved to the USA in 2016. Her interest lies in improving quality education for all and is currently leading two global projects. One for “Early Childhood Teacher Education in Southern Africa” and the other, a global research study on the implementation of a Seamless learning experience design model (SLED) she has designed with her team of researchers from 10 countries. She is chair of the Global Research Project of the International Association of Mobile Learning and the vice chair of LEASA (Lutheran Education Association in Southern Africa).
She believes in the “pebble in the pond” Merrill (2002) approach for her work as Instructional designer and as a philosophy for her life to create a ripple of change. To encourage others to become “pebbles in the pond” as well. To change in the world we want to see” from a poverty mindset to a prosperous spiritual and physical future for human kind- just as God has intended for his children.
Her motivation and interest of being on the board of the Reynolds’ Provisions is to strengthen and to support the mission of the organization.
Board Member:
Mr. Emanuel Reynolds
Mr Emanuel Reynolds is a founding board member of Reynolds’ Provisions as Treasurer & Support Engineer assisting & supporting each project’s electronic hardware. Mr. Reynolds volunteers with main projects helping with creative thinking in areas of technological safety.
Mr Reynolds is a founding board member of Reynolds’ Provisions, and has had many different wonderful experiences and roles in technology. His most recent work with Plexus an international technology company, he repairs and builds tech-hardware that supports the increasing medical needs that involve cyber robotics.
