27 Jun
ENCORE HAS a full-time, six-month position, with room for some flexibility depending on the background of the volunteer. Experienced fundraisers with India experience whose schedule does not permit them to leave the country for six months this year (2009), could have the option of performing some of the duties from the U.S., and making one [...]
Posted in Opportunities, Volunteer by: Lucy Sotar
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17 Jun
LOWEY LEADS THE BEGINNING OF THE BOLD NEW PEACE CORPS
Last night at 5:30pm EST Congresswoman Nita Lowey, appearing with Colombia RPCV Journalist Maureen Orth, on the Chris Matthews show announced that we got the full $450 million for the Peace Corps in 2010, a $110 million increase out of the [...]
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10 Jun
This letter written by former PCN Director Donovan Russell.
Dear President Obama:
On Saturday of this week there will be a rally at Freedom Plaza in Washington in support of a proposed appropriation for the Peace Corps in the amount of 450 million dollars. The intent is to promote resources sufficient to our President’s vision for the [...]
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08 Jun
WRITER EDITOR:
Encore! Service Corps International (Encore!) is seeking the services of a senior writer to work in East Africa with one of the world’s leading international research and development agencies. The successful candidate will have strong background in journalism and or public relations and will work as part of a three-person creative team over a [...]
Posted in Opportunities, Volunteer by: Lucy Sotar
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08 Jun
This info courtesy of Doug Hall. Just do a search on YouTube for “Bhutanese refugee” and you’ll find quite a
few videos of various sorts. New ones keep cropping up and old ones are
taken down
Here are a few
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kYk-XQg1o8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dBhpEE89qE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up29_ppJ_2g&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeqqZG9rK0g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq3w8EjtTuI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU_MsYB9LlE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYQ_h-spedg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DryNAyeFDo8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPlCLg3B7WI
The best ones, which were quire detailed, were from Atlanta. But those have
already been removed by their author.
If [...]
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02 Jun
GlobalGiving is proud to host the amazing Olga Murray, the founder of the Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation (NYOF), on Thursday, June 4, from 5:30-8:00 pm. at the Thurgood Marshall Building: 1816 – 12th Street NW, Washington DC (between S & T streets, just a few blocks from the Metro Green Line/U Street – Cardozo station).
Wine [...]
Posted in EVENTS by: Lucy Sotar
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01 Jun
ENCORE is seeking three nurses to teach in Africa, all expenses paid, for four month time periods. One position is in Kenya. Two are in Ghana.
See below for more details.
Posted in Volunteer by: Lucy Sotar
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