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Submitted by Jessicajorr on Mon, 06/30/2008 - 10:14.
•Current FACTS•
An updated Oxfam report also notes the following facts
(some numbers may be out of date and have gotten worse, but the sheer
scale of these numbers alone are shocking):
! More than two million people are internally displaced; of these, over 50
per cent are in eastern DRC. More than one million of the displaced have
received absolutely no outside assistance.
! It is estimated that up to 2.5 million people in DRC have died since the
outbreak of the war, many from preventable diseases.
!
Submitted by marisahurlbert on Tue, 03/04/2008 - 22:33.
Students of the Mississippi-Vermont Community Comection class at Twinfield Union School in Marshfield, Vermont have been learning from a “Rights in Action” curriculum. It is a model that enables students to reflect, create and fulfill action plans while building a voice that empowers and is shaped by community. Imagine a new generation of citizen activists bridging our nation’s North and South divide, raising their voices on important public issues, and enlisting community leaders and educators as partners in the civic and political life of their communities.
Submitted by laura.polstein on Fri, 01/25/2008 - 13:14.
Inter-American Collaborative Law hopes to send a delegation to Venezuela this Spring. We are a group of young law students interested in experiencing a foreign legal system and society first-hand. We hope to foster understanding between the two nations by developing relationships with legal advocates and other Venezuelans. Because of the current climate of hostility between U.S. and Venezuelan leaders, we feel that person-to-person exchanges between citizens are crucial to preserving peace and addressing global poverty.
Submitted by ntshbssy on Fri, 11/09/2007 - 16:42.
Essay 1
I am Natasha Bussy. I’m 16 years old and I am senior at University City High School. Before that I was at elementary school at Blankenberg and middle school at Sulzberger. I grew up in West Philadelphia and I care a lot about my community. I guess you could say I am a community food activist and I want to be a leader in my community. When I was a freshman in high school I volunteered to work in the garden at my school. After I turned 14 in December 2004 I got job as a peer food educator in June 2005.
Submitted by becky.robinson on Tue, 11/06/2007 - 20:11.
Alternative Spring Break (ASB) at the University of Illinois is a program that provides college students the opportunity to immerse themselves in an issue through volunteering, and then use their new passion to create a more engaged citizenry. ASB is sending you a proposal in hopes that you will consider us for funding in order to further our mission. ASB motivates its participants to combat apathy among the other members of our generation. ASB will promote lifelong civic participation among college students in several ways.
Submitted by BRICK Winner on Sat, 08/26/2006 - 22:40.
2000 BRICK Award winner Heather Barr worked as a Staff Attorney at the Urban Justice Center in New York City. A formerly homeless teen, Heather wrote a definitive report on the incarceration of people with mental illness, filed a successful lawsuit to compel New York City to provide discharge planning for 30,000 inmates with mental illness each year. She also co-founded the Nathaniel Project, the nation’s first alternative to incarceration program for felony offenders with serious mental illness.
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