In 2007, GPE sent 5 volunteers to work at the Liberian refugee settlement of Buduburam in Ghana. They delivered 2,000 de-worming treatments and provided vocational training opportunities to ex-child soldiers.
In 2008, GPE sent another group of volunteers from FSU and Santa Fe College to further develop vocational training opportunities and expand primary education capacities in the refugee camp and surrounding areas. During their time there, these volunteers worked at the Carolyn A. Miller Elementary School (CAMES) teaching English, math, and healthcare workshops. Volunteers also worked as teachers assistants to provide students with one-on-one instruction in the classroom and privately as tutors. Our volunteers also assisted in the Unite For Sight Clinic, working together to provide information on eye health and to screen local children for reading glasses and diseases of the eye.
The situation in Buduburam has deteriorated such that many refugees have been forced to repatriate back to Liberia. Future projects are therefore suspended for the time being.
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Global Peace Exchange has decided to suspend its Guatemala project due to the devastation caused by the recent Pacaya volcano eruption and passing of tropical storm Agatha through the country. The country is trying to recuperate from these events and it is not a good time for GPE volunteers to engage in a project [...]
Tuesday April 6: 7:30 pm Peace discussion meeting in Dunlap Success
Center, Rwanda Genocide vigil to follow on Landis Green around 8:30
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
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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 [...]