The camp experience was a unique chance for participants to get to know other Paraguayan youth from all across the country. GAD Youth Leadership Camp, Tati Yupi, Feb 2008.
miércoles, 20 de febrero de 2008
We Played
Dinamicas such as this balloon-stomping game helped to bring up the energy level during a full day of activities. GAD Youth Leadership Camp, Tati Yupi, Feb 2008.
We Worked
Paraguayan youth participants and volunteer Mila Wilmouth work in a team to complete exercises in personal and community development. GAD Youth Leadership Camp, Tati Yupi, Feb 2008.
We Traveled
Volunteers and Paraguayan teens arrive at the site of the 2008 GAD-PreAlpa Youth Leadership Camp, bio-refuge Tati Yupi.
lunes, 11 de febrero de 2008
GAD PC PY meeting minutes ¤ January 25, 2008
Next meeting: Friday, March 28, 3PM at the PCO.
This meeting:
Pira pire – 2008 calendars have sold out! Orlando reported 897.000 Gs in GAD’s coffers to date.
PATF Scholarship (technical training and financial aid for young Paraguayan women)
Sarah’s got the 2008 recipients’ list – next year’s applications will be available around November.
For those PCVs who have a 2008 recipient from their site, the winners are required to attend 2 workshops where they will get training and the funds in 2 installments. First workshop date TBA.
GAD section of the Kuat
Calling all GAD for article submissions for the next issue of the Kuat (March deadline). So far, we’ve got a feature issue by Sarah Fouts and a GAD Camp 2008 charlas compilation by Gabby.
Upcoming fechas:
Paraguayan Women’s Day- Feb 24
International Women’s Day- March 8
Contact our pres Joan for tips on how to get your community involved in these awareness celebrations.
GAD Manual (resource for PCVs working with communities on GAD issues)
Michael requested that GAD put together a GAD Binder for office use before March
Topics will be assigned to all interesados at February’s GAD Camp
The PCO GAD Binder can segway into a Manual (to be geared more toward volunteer use in site)
Jopara Initiative
Jopara president Bryan Weiner presented the idea to incorporate Jopara (volunteer diversity group) into GAD – proposal approved
GAD Camp, February 8-11 @ Tati Yupi
KUDOS to the GAD Camp Committee - Lorien, Evangeline, Sarah Fouts, Orlando and Joan - and NGO Pre-Alpa for laying the groundwork for an amazing experience for jovenes and volunteers alike, all set against the beautiful backdrop of the Tati Yupi bio refuge near Ciudad de Este.
Now that it's all over, we want to help next year's group do it again, even better! So that leads to...evaluations. At the camp, participants turned in written evals to Evangeline and Volunteers hashed out their initial reactions.
Rachel offered to prepare 3-month evals, to track the impact of the camp experience that the jóvenes have brought back to their communities.
With the huge organizational effort put into the camp now behind us, the slate is cleared for renewed focus on ongoing projects and lots of possibilities for all your ideas!
This meeting:
Pira pire – 2008 calendars have sold out! Orlando reported 897.000 Gs in GAD’s coffers to date.
PATF Scholarship (technical training and financial aid for young Paraguayan women)
Sarah’s got the 2008 recipients’ list – next year’s applications will be available around November.
For those PCVs who have a 2008 recipient from their site, the winners are required to attend 2 workshops where they will get training and the funds in 2 installments. First workshop date TBA.
GAD section of the Kuat
Calling all GAD for article submissions for the next issue of the Kuat (March deadline). So far, we’ve got a feature issue by Sarah Fouts and a GAD Camp 2008 charlas compilation by Gabby.
Upcoming fechas:
Paraguayan Women’s Day- Feb 24
International Women’s Day- March 8
Contact our pres Joan for tips on how to get your community involved in these awareness celebrations.
GAD Manual (resource for PCVs working with communities on GAD issues)
Michael requested that GAD put together a GAD Binder for office use before March
Topics will be assigned to all interesados at February’s GAD Camp
The PCO GAD Binder can segway into a Manual (to be geared more toward volunteer use in site)
Jopara Initiative
Jopara president Bryan Weiner presented the idea to incorporate Jopara (volunteer diversity group) into GAD – proposal approved
GAD Camp, February 8-11 @ Tati Yupi
KUDOS to the GAD Camp Committee - Lorien, Evangeline, Sarah Fouts, Orlando and Joan - and NGO Pre-Alpa for laying the groundwork for an amazing experience for jovenes and volunteers alike, all set against the beautiful backdrop of the Tati Yupi bio refuge near Ciudad de Este.
Now that it's all over, we want to help next year's group do it again, even better! So that leads to...evaluations. At the camp, participants turned in written evals to Evangeline and Volunteers hashed out their initial reactions.
Rachel offered to prepare 3-month evals, to track the impact of the camp experience that the jóvenes have brought back to their communities.
With the huge organizational effort put into the camp now behind us, the slate is cleared for renewed focus on ongoing projects and lots of possibilities for all your ideas!
viernes, 30 de noviembre de 2007
GAD PC PY meeting minutes ¤ Nov 24, 2007
Anuncios
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
miércoles, 24 de octubre de 2007
GAD PC PY meeting minutes ¤ Sept. 28, 2007
Break out the yerba and t-ray equipo, because it's time to catch up on another edition of the GAD meeting minutes.
Despedida
GAD took a hit when our calidad-er than calidad coordinator Julie Silvernail left Peace Corps last week due to a family emergency. Julie, you rocked. And we won't drop the ball on you!
Avisos
- The PATF scholarship funding campaign is underway! Get all of your friends, family, former coworkers and other Stateside contacts to make their tax-deductible donations via secure online transactions on the official Peace Corps website link below:
https://www.peacecorps.gov/resources/donors/contribute/projdetail.cfm?projdesc=526-178®ion=latinamerica
We need to raise $10,000 by December 1 in order to get the scholarship girls their funding in time for back to school!
- Now available – the GAD Paraguay 2008 calendar with gorgeous photos by RPCV Emily Horton (her works were featured in the 40th anniversary exhibit at the CCPA). Save up your 32 mil now and pick one up at the PCO or at Thanksgiving. Buy a whole bunch and solucionar your holiday gift giving en seguida.
- In lieu of a traditional GAD meeting, we're going to have a GAD powwow over lunch at the PC Thanksgiving event at Hotel Tirol in Capitan Miranda near Encarnación, Saturday November 24.
And now for the feature presentation…Joan kicked off the meeting with some buenas noticias!
GAD raffle – With powerhouse prizes such as Rosana and Orlando, we raised a cool 120.00 Gs at the Duck Soup Seedbank benefit concert.
Calendar fundraiser– Gariety took the reins on layout and got the job done. Joan and Jen have gotten the first 25 printed. If we sell them all, we'll get more made for Thanksgiving!
The GAD Gabber – props to Evangeline, Lauren and Joan for publishing the inaugural edition of the GAD PY committee newsletter, complete with leadership camp news, PATF beca update and other juicy tidbits – make for your mailboxes and let us know what you think! Email all GAD Gabber feedback to gadparaguay@gmail.com. Your feedback will help us decide how often we'll be sending out the newsletter – current thoughts range from bi-monthly to quarterly publication.
GAD in the Kuat – Nov 10 is the deadline and the topic is Paraguayan perspectives – which makes our ongoing gender issues interview project a match made on match.com. Here's what to do:
1) Download your copy of the interview guide from Sharepoint, search your email for the electronic copy sent out to the mailing list or look for it in the December Kuat. Or feel free to do it your way and come up with your own questions.
2) Interview your contacts, best Paraguayan friends, whoever you feel may have some share-worthy perspectives.
3) Once you've done your interviews, send the cream of the crop on over to gadparaguay@gmail.com. One of the officers will review it and submit on your behalf to the Kuat.
Youth Leadership Camp – The guapo GAD camp committee has secured us a site for the February 2008 campamento! The place is called Tati Yupi near Ciudad del Este. What's more, the committee has wrapped up SPA grant número uno, with a budget accommodating 36 Paraguayan youth participants and 18 volunteers. One difference from last year is that the youth participants most likely will have to fundraiser a portion of their travel costs to Tati Yupi, the issue being to asegurar that they have taken their own initiative to participate at the camp. We discussed the possibility of using GAD funds to pay for 1 or 2 participants who would have difficulty raising the money for whatever reason via an essay contest.
PATF Young Women's Scholarship – 2008 applications are now available at the PCO! Pick one or two up if you have a deserving candidate (good grades + community service) from your site in mind. FYI – applicants will need to make an extra 2 copies of the recommendation page. Now let's get $10,000 (yes, that's USD) raised by December 1! We discussed the possibility of more effective messaging for the fundraising campaign and settled on follow-up emails with suggestions to add a personal message and alternative content formatting.
In other beca news, on October 5, the 2007 recipients attended the 2nd workshop on topics including leadership, budgeting and career plans. Kudos to the beca committee – Lorien, Evangeline, Lara, Sarah Fouts and Julie for the guapaite-ness.
New Projects
GAD manual – The idea is to compile GAD resources for our posterior PCVs – charlas, dinámicas and tangible strategies to deal with gender and development issues in site. Here's the brave new committee – Carole, Allison Whaley, Mila, Seth and Joan. Resources include PCO GAD manuals, Kuña Aty org (3rd year PCV Liz), leadership camp charla presenters (various) and Decidamos NGO (Seth). The plan is to get preliminary resources organized by December 15 before many take off for the holidays. So far, yet so soon…… and so-long!
GAD is guap@, ¿verdad? Thanks for reading! – Jen Cheng, GAD secretary
Despedida
GAD took a hit when our calidad-er than calidad coordinator Julie Silvernail left Peace Corps last week due to a family emergency. Julie, you rocked. And we won't drop the ball on you!
Avisos
- The PATF scholarship funding campaign is underway! Get all of your friends, family, former coworkers and other Stateside contacts to make their tax-deductible donations via secure online transactions on the official Peace Corps website link below:
https://www.peacecorps.gov/resources/donors/contribute/projdetail.cfm?projdesc=526-178®ion=latinamerica
We need to raise $10,000 by December 1 in order to get the scholarship girls their funding in time for back to school!
- Now available – the GAD Paraguay 2008 calendar with gorgeous photos by RPCV Emily Horton (her works were featured in the 40th anniversary exhibit at the CCPA). Save up your 32 mil now and pick one up at the PCO or at Thanksgiving. Buy a whole bunch and solucionar your holiday gift giving en seguida.
- In lieu of a traditional GAD meeting, we're going to have a GAD powwow over lunch at the PC Thanksgiving event at Hotel Tirol in Capitan Miranda near Encarnación, Saturday November 24.
And now for the feature presentation…Joan kicked off the meeting with some buenas noticias!
GAD raffle – With powerhouse prizes such as Rosana and Orlando, we raised a cool 120.00 Gs at the Duck Soup Seedbank benefit concert.
Calendar fundraiser– Gariety took the reins on layout and got the job done. Joan and Jen have gotten the first 25 printed. If we sell them all, we'll get more made for Thanksgiving!
The GAD Gabber – props to Evangeline, Lauren and Joan for publishing the inaugural edition of the GAD PY committee newsletter, complete with leadership camp news, PATF beca update and other juicy tidbits – make for your mailboxes and let us know what you think! Email all GAD Gabber feedback to gadparaguay@gmail.com. Your feedback will help us decide how often we'll be sending out the newsletter – current thoughts range from bi-monthly to quarterly publication.
GAD in the Kuat – Nov 10 is the deadline and the topic is Paraguayan perspectives – which makes our ongoing gender issues interview project a match made on match.com. Here's what to do:
1) Download your copy of the interview guide from Sharepoint, search your email for the electronic copy sent out to the mailing list or look for it in the December Kuat. Or feel free to do it your way and come up with your own questions.
2) Interview your contacts, best Paraguayan friends, whoever you feel may have some share-worthy perspectives.
3) Once you've done your interviews, send the cream of the crop on over to gadparaguay@gmail.com. One of the officers will review it and submit on your behalf to the Kuat.
Youth Leadership Camp – The guapo GAD camp committee has secured us a site for the February 2008 campamento! The place is called Tati Yupi near Ciudad del Este. What's more, the committee has wrapped up SPA grant número uno, with a budget accommodating 36 Paraguayan youth participants and 18 volunteers. One difference from last year is that the youth participants most likely will have to fundraiser a portion of their travel costs to Tati Yupi, the issue being to asegurar that they have taken their own initiative to participate at the camp. We discussed the possibility of using GAD funds to pay for 1 or 2 participants who would have difficulty raising the money for whatever reason via an essay contest.
PATF Young Women's Scholarship – 2008 applications are now available at the PCO! Pick one or two up if you have a deserving candidate (good grades + community service) from your site in mind. FYI – applicants will need to make an extra 2 copies of the recommendation page. Now let's get $10,000 (yes, that's USD) raised by December 1! We discussed the possibility of more effective messaging for the fundraising campaign and settled on follow-up emails with suggestions to add a personal message and alternative content formatting.
In other beca news, on October 5, the 2007 recipients attended the 2nd workshop on topics including leadership, budgeting and career plans. Kudos to the beca committee – Lorien, Evangeline, Lara, Sarah Fouts and Julie for the guapaite-ness.
New Projects
GAD manual – The idea is to compile GAD resources for our posterior PCVs – charlas, dinámicas and tangible strategies to deal with gender and development issues in site. Here's the brave new committee – Carole, Allison Whaley, Mila, Seth and Joan. Resources include PCO GAD manuals, Kuña Aty org (3rd year PCV Liz), leadership camp charla presenters (various) and Decidamos NGO (Seth). The plan is to get preliminary resources organized by December 15 before many take off for the holidays. So far, yet so soon…… and so-long!
GAD is guap@, ¿verdad? Thanks for reading! – Jen Cheng, GAD secretary
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