We welcome any suggestions or advice regarding ongoing humanitarian aid assistance within Guatemala, and information about how to best address helping the communities affected by the ongoing post-disaster environment

Wednesday April 7: Tee Off For Toilets 10-2 on Union Green: Fundraiser for the new toilet sanitation project in Rwanda with games, an obstacle course, and bake sale.

Thursday April 8: Amnesty concert featuring Dave Tieff, Union Green
from 12pm- 1 pm

Saturday April 10: Beatles tribute concert with The Rent-A-Car 7 and

The Jacob Jeffries Band, Engine Room; doors open at 9

Sunday April 11: Peace in the Park 11am -6pm Railroad square

There are now two separate components to the GPE project in Guatemala, each with its own goals and volunteers. The first of these consists of an exchange program for two FSU graduate students from the College of Education, who will spend a total of six months at the Proesur campus of Universidad Del Valle de Guatemala (UVG). Our goal here is to better English teaching both at a University and community level, while providing FSU graduate students with the opportunity to teach abroad. It is GPE’s intention to make this a long-term commitment, and continue to send interested grad students every semester. Within this component of this year’s Guatemala project, there has been no change from our previous application.

As a second component to the initiative in Guatemala, GPE will send a team of six undergraduate volunteers who will work directly with a non-profit named ASOATITLAN. This is a local organization of young professionals, whose vision is to better the quality of life of the Guatemalan people by promoting collaborative learning on issues relevant to their communities. This is done through workshops and trainings, which are held on issues relevant to each community. These include environmental issues, active citizenship, information technology, social health issues and many more topics that are based on demand from the each community. However, due to a small-unpaid staff, and an overall lack of funding, ASOTITLAN finds its impact limited. In hopes to expanding the reach of their message, they reached out to GPE to form a partnership for the summer of 2010.

In Rwanda the GPE team of 5-6 undergraduate students plans to return to the Bukomero Primary School in Byimana to establish an educational advancement center that will provide computers and educational software as well as curriculum development for a faculty that faces overcrowded classes and serious lack of teaching-related resources.  By doing so, both teachers and students will be able to significantly improve their proficiency in English as well as their overall academic achievement and growth.

Summer 2010 Rwanda Application

Summer 2010 Guatemala Application

Applications are due to director@globalpeaceexchange.org or if printed, drop them off at GPE’s Dunlap office by Friday January 8^th, 2010

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!

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

Thus far, GPE alumni include two Truman Scholars, a Rhodes Scholar, and a Boren Scholar among numerous other scholarship and fellowship recipients.

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

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