An estimated 130,000 people, including tens of thousands of school children, are expected to visit the exhibit during its two-week run.
Visitors also have the opportunity to experience grinding corn and rice.
After the tour, visitors can help pack a box of supplies that will be sent to people in need. ADRA President Ralph S. Watts, Jr. , emphasized that the main audience for the Global Village are late elementary and middle school students. The World Bank has played a critical role in helping support and underwrite the Washington, DC exhibit, Casey Bahr, ADRA's director of development education, noted. WRC-TV is serving as The Global Village's media sponsor. Kathleen McCampbell Vance, WRC-TV's program director, said that the station sees the Global Village as playing an important role in the station's community outreach efforts to help children throughout the Washington area this year.