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RP among top 5 in volunteer work vs climate change
Manila :: Philippines | about 4 hours ago
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Philippines�The country registered more than one million hours of effort to tackle climate change and other environmental issues, the United Nations office here said. The top five countries are India, which registered 53,917 hours, followed by Pakistan,...
Tags: United Nations Volunteers, Philippines, Manila, Environment, Marikina City, Philanthropy, UNV, Volunteering, Civil society, Peace Corps, Giving
Probolsky: Irvine Prayer Breakfast reminds us of our bounty
Rome :: Italy | 3 days ago
Credibility Vasquez was ambassador to the United Nations World Food Program, one of three American ambassadors that serve in Rome...So he is well qualified to talk about people in need, and give us perspective about the abundance we have compared to the 80 percent...
Tags: Gaddi Vasquez, Irvine Prayer Breakfast, American Cancer Society, Orange County, LeeAnn Stevens, Italy, Rome, Sukhee Kang, Gaddi, Orange County California, Peace Corps, Irvine, Ambassador
Ben Beall: Observations upon returning from Latin America
Santa Cruz :: Bolivia | 7 days ago
Credibility Steamboat Springs My wife, Millie, and I just returned from 27 months in the Peace Corps working in the Andes of Bolivia and the rain forests of Costa Rica. We are glad to be home, and in this week of Thanksgiving, we believe that every one of us needs...
Tags: Costa Ricans, United States, Bolivia, Tortuguero, Latin America, U.S, states andes, Peace Corps, Santa Cruz, Spanish-speaking countries, Evo Morales, Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Politics, Costa Rica, Tourism in Costa Rica
Maurice Albertson, architect of Peace Corps, dies
Jakarta :: Indonesia | 9 days ago
Credibility Maurice Albertson, an architect of the Peace Corps and a Colorado State University professor emeritus, died Sunday...Albertson died at Columbine Care Center West, said family friend Mims Harris. He fell ill following a trip to Indonesia in November and...
Tags: Peace Corps, Maurice Albertson, CSU, Indonesia, Jakarta, Village Earth, Maurice L. Albertson, Albertson, Colorado State University
Forum set for Monday in energy controversy
Novato :: CA :: USA | 14 days ago
Credibility Participants will include Marin County Supervisor Charles McGlashan; Dawn Weisz, interim director of the Marin Energy Authority; and former assemblyman Joe Nation, who will present the case against the plan on behalf of Pacific Gas & Electric.
Tags: Novato, San Rafael California, Marin County Board of Supervisors, Marin County California, Marin, Tutankhamun, Docent, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, Hospitality Recreation, Amarna Period, Atenism, Curses, World AIDS Day, Business Finance, John F. Kennedy, Peace Corps, HIV/AIDS, Social Issues
Khazei’s outsider career taught deep political lessons
Washington :: DC :: USA | 17 days ago
Credibility It was a daunting task for two inexperienced college interns to plan a legislative hearing on Capitol Hill. But Alan Khazei and Michael Brown had lobbied for the assignment. And they were going to make Washington sit up and take notice. To Brown and...
Tags: Alan Khazei, Michael D. Brown, Washington, Jeff Swartz, Stephen Spaloss, Peace Corps, Bill Clinton, City Year, AmeriCorps
Wendy Lee & Books For Cameroon: How To change The World For $11,500 (An Exclusive Interview with A U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer)
Wendy was studying for her postgraduate entrance examination when her friends Billy and Loǐc invited her to a dinner-party. Welcoming the break from Pythagorean theorems, she soon found herself in the midst of Bamilệkệ villagers and foreign...
Tags: Wendy Lee, cameroon, books for cameroon, biya, illiteracy, poverty, peace corps, volunteers
Al-Qaida branch claims Mauritania suicide bombing
Nouakchott :: Mauritania | 3 months ago
Credibility Al-Qaida's North African branch is claiming responsibility for a suicide bombing outside the French Embassy in Mauritania's capital. Intelligence Group, which monitors militant Web sites, said Islamic Maghreb released a message Tuesday claiming responsibility...
Tags: Mauritania, Peace Corps
Obama nominates new Peace Corps director
Washington :: DC :: USA | 4 months ago
Credibility President Barack Obama says he will nominate Aaron Williams, a career international development specialist, to be director of the Peace Corps. Williams, vice president for international business development with RTI International, has helped design and...
Tags: Aaron Williams, Barack Obama, Peace Corps
Honduras: Golpe de estado - the sixth day
[BorderExplorer note: Allvoices member Juancito, an American Catholic lay minister in Honduras, asked me to repost his blog, Hermano Juancito, here to update you on the coup. This was originally published at 9:50 PM, 7/3/2009.] There's...
Tags: Honduras, coup, Catholic Chruch, Micheletti, Organization of American States, Rigoberta Menchu, Peace Corps, Caritas
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