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Posted on September 21, 2009 - by Maria
GPE T-shirt Design Contest!
Help Global Peace Exchange design a new T-shirt!
The Grand Prize is 200 dollars!
The design guidelines are simple:
- A design that reflects our principles and ideals!
- we are a student run international development organization that works toward implementing sustainable development projects around the world.
- for more detailed information check the rest of the site!
- No white or black shirts
- Be as creative as you can, but try to limit the color range.
Please submit all designs to: director@globalpeaceexchange.org by October 19th at 5:00pm.
Join our Facebook group if you have more questions or email us!
We look forward to all of your designs and ideas!
Posted on August 8, 2009 - by Maria
GPE partners with Committee Entertainment for Rivalry Music Festival
GPE is proud to be the main charitable partner for the Rivarly Music Festival in Tallahassee,FL. Featuring some of the biggest DJs in the country and a target of 10,000 guests, it’s the biggest event of its kind to hit Tallahassee. GPE will receive a percentage of the profits and a fixed sum for every ticket buyer who mentions GPE.
All the promotion companies and Dj’s all got together and planned the biggest event for the UM vs FSU weekend. The Event is from 12pm- 2am and is a 14 hour music festival held at Floyds and the adjoining club (like the St. Patty setup)
LMFAO, George Acosta, Robbie Rivera, and DJ Irie will all be there as well as several other Dj’s, and performers, and over 10 live bands.
Website. http://www.rivalrymusicfestival.com
Facebook- http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/event.php?eid=137941094147&ref=ts
Posted on May 1, 2009 - by Maria
GPE Bukomero Director Named Boren Scholar
Isabel Callejas, the director of GPE’s Bukomero program in Rwanda, was recently awarded the Boren Scholarship. Isabel, born in Miami and raised in Nicaragua, joined GPE’s team in 2007. She plans to use the scholarship to study Kiswahili in Tanzania. This prestigious scholarship provides unique funding opportunities for U.S. undergraduate and graduate students to add an important language component to their educations. Boren focuses on geographic areas, languages, and fields of study that are both critical to U.S. interests and underrepresented in study abroad opportunities.
Thus far, GPE alumni include two Truman Scholars, a Rhodes Scholar, and a Boren Scholar among numerous other scholarship and fellowship recipients.
Posted on April 14, 2009 - by Maria
United Nations World Food Programme official visits FSU and GPE
On assignment from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), Douglass Casson Coutts is a Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of Nutrition and Food Science, College of Human Sciences at Auburn University. He is developing and teaching Auburn’s first undergraduate course on “World Hunger: Causes, Consequences and Responses,” assisting in designing a Hunger Studies Minor area of study, helping to establish an International Institute of Global Hunger at Auburn, supporting “Universities Fighting World Hunger” (UFWH), a joint partnership with WFP and Auburn University with 70 university members in North America, and is a guest lecturer at UFWH member universities.
As Special Advisor on Child Hunger to WFP’s Executive Director, he was previously based in Washington, D.C., and charged with working with institutions in North America as part of the new global Child Hunger Initiative being developed by WFP in conjunction with UNICEF and the World Bank. Within this framework, he was supporting efforts to launch an outreach and advocacy program with institutions of higher learning and was the WFP manager responsible for the WFP/Auburn University partnership and UFWH. He was also part of a team formulating a strategy for corporate partnership development in North America in support of WFP humanitarian and development operation worldwide.
Mr. Coutts has more than 23 years of experience with WFP, more recently as Country Director for Bangladesh, where he oversaw the organization’s single-largest development operation in the world - embracing integrated food security, school feeding and refugee operations, nutritional support and HIV/AIDS awareness/community health programs. He has represented WFP all over the wold, including a stint in 1997-98 as the UN’s first Humanitarian Coordinator for North Korea, responsible for implementing what at the time was WFP’s biggest emergency operation. He also served as WFP Country Director in Nepal and Namibia, and as WFP’s Representative to the United Nations, USA and Canada based in New York.
http://www.coss.fsu.edu/lectures/2009/douglas-casson-coutts
Posted on April 14, 2009 - by Maria
GPE co-founder wins Truman Scholarship
http://www.fsu.com/pages/2009/03/27/truman_scholar.html
Posted on February 18, 2009 - by Maria
GPE Returns from Rwanda!
Global Peace Exchange founders Nick Fiore, Maria Kuecken and Alex Merkovic returned from a visit to Rwanda that included a meeting with President Paul Kagame, the delivery of computers to our project site in Byimana and new agreements with the Ministry of Education to help ease Rwanda’s transition from French to English as the official language of instruction. Click here for more information!
Posted on February 17, 2009 - by Maria
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