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The next GAD camp meeting will be on Monday, December 10, 11:30am at 4D. If you are interested in getting in on the final planning for February, bring your ganas to planear and stay for the gelato.
The GAD general meeting will be on Friday, Jan 25th, 5 PM at the PCO - a must-attend for all those participating in the GAD Camp (February 8-10).
We sold out of the first batch of GAD calendars with photos of Paraguay by RPCV Emily Horton. Pick up yours for 35 mil at the PCO Coordinator’s office.
Yup, that’s right - all eyes are now on Ko’erogua Mita Pyahu, aka GAD Youth Leadership Camp facilitated by Paraguayan NGO PreAlpa. The oh-so-guapo committee has reserved the oh-so-lindo camp site of Tati Yupi near Hernandarias, near CDE. We are all set on the SPA grant, and got Michael E’s approval for the site and travel to CDE!
There are only 2 more volunteer slots available as of today, November 30! Here’s how to get involved in the camp:
1. Seek out 1-3 youth in your community who are active, potential leaders, preferably under age 20 (officially between ages 15-25). Email the names of the youth you’re planning to bring to Lorien AND Evangeline – bneirol@yahoo.com AND evan77sk@yahoo.com Please include Name, Cedula #, Age, Sex, and whether or not you feel this person could lead an activity, charla, or dinamica. Please note, we have space for some volunteers to bring 3 youth. So if you have 3 candidates identified, please send info for all. Be sure to mention if you are interested in giving a charla and/or facilitating with a Paraguayan youth participant or adult contact (include names and affiliations in email).
2. If you don't already have the official invite, camp committee will provide the document that contains all important details at next camp and general meetings. Each youth needs to pay or raise 50 mil (or more but no less) toward their pasaje to the CDE bus terminal (PCVs pay their own way). From CDE, there will be 2 pre-arranged buses to take participants and volunteers to the camp site. Rosana emailed out a muni pedido form to the GAD list to help youth request pasaje funding from their muni.
3. The committee is also going to send out a food pedido form so we can get some donations toward our camp grub. We need help from all GAD volunteers to conseguir food donations and identify what items and quantity of items you might be able to bring (Desayuno, Media-manana, Merienda). More specific info will be communicated to everyone after December 10th.
4. Bring complete charlas & dinamicas/ice breakers to share with the group at the camp meeting December 10 and come to the general meeting January 25 to get in on the ultima hora noticias!
If you have questions or concerns before the camp, please feel free to call or email either Lorien 0971-901-886 or Evangeline 0971-901-881.
Also fully T-ray charged is the PATF young women’s scholarship program – the deadline for the 2008 academic year has now passed. Any youth you helped apply will be contacted by phone if they’ve been selected by December 21! If chosen, they will be required to attend the ceremony to receive the first half of their scholarship money on February 8, 2008.
Speaking of plata, we’ve raised $6125 dollars as of November 30, that’s from our initial goal of $10,000. Kudos to you all and super-kudos to the PATF committee. 1 bit of feedback from a non-GAD PCV was a request to pass out a 1-page print-out to all PCV mailboxes with essential facts on PATF and how to donate.
If 2 project-guasus weren’t enough, we are making the group’s presence known with the GAD Gabber Newsletter – Send in your interviews and articles on gender issues in Paraguay by December 14 to Evangeline at evan77sk@yahoo.com.
Felices fiestas to GAD, and to GAD a good sandia (or melon, or mango, or clericol…)!
– Jen Cheng, GAD secretary
