<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Hi all! </div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">As you know, Alex is in Nicaragua, with the Peace Corp, working with high school teachers teaching entrepreneurial skills to youth. Peace Corp volunteers are given no budget/funds to work with so it falls to them to fundraise to make the program successful. (Local businesses help but $20 a year is a lot for them to give!!)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Please read her email below and help if you can. If you would like, feel free to forward to your friends who might be interested. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Thanks so much! </div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Barbara</font></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Alexandra Morgan</b><br>Date: Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 12:47 PM<br>Subject: Fundraising email<br><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:10pt">Dear family and friends,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:10pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:10pt">This year, Youth Leadership Camp is proud to present our newly revised curriculum: Design for Change. We’re working to provide the information and skills necessary so that <b>54 Nicaraguan Youth</b> can receive training in project management and design, with the end goal of implementing projects across each of their communities.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>This camp is a unique opportunity for Nicaraguan youth</b>. Nicaragua is the poorest country in Latin America, and while education is free though high school, there are few opportunities for extracurricular leadership activities. In many places, Peace Corps volunteers fulfill these roles, creating youth environmental brigades, providing interactive sex ed, managing business competitions, and creating English book clubs. However, Peace Corps’ ultimate goal is to build capacity. Our limited time in country allows us only so much direct impact. Because of this, <b>it’s imperative that we train the next generation of Nicaraguan youth to design, implement, and manage their own community projects</b>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:10pt">Development begins at a community level, and is contingent on well trained, enthusiastic community members who can visualize and break down a problem into it core components, and then come up with imaginative solutions. The Design for Change program, begun in India, is an interactive series of workshops that can be tailored to many project design programs. We’re trying to bring the curriculum to a new level: camp style. We’ll spend five days in early February teaching the curriculum through a series of interactive workshops, interspersed with some good old-fashioned camp games. We hope that bringing together youth from across Nicaragua will spark new ideas, and that a combination of leadership, team building and project management will spark the desire to create change at an individual level.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:10pt">Youth Leadership Camp 2017 is partnering with the YMCA of Nicaragua to implement the Design for Change curriculum, but <b>we need your help to make this camp happen</b>. Since Peace Corps has a commitment to providing technical assistance, rather than government grants, we’ve spent the last six months writing a grant application that simply allows us to solicit funds from donors across the U.S. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:10pt">Please consider donating to our camp. <b>We need to raise $7400 USD</b> in order to provide food, lodging, and cover travel expenses for the 54 youth, as well as our junior counselors, who successfully participated in last year’s camp. We can’t do this without you! </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:10pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>Click <a href="https://donate.peacecorps.gov/donate/project/youth-leadership-camp-2017/" target="_blank"><font color="#ff0000">here</font></a> to donate!</b></span></p><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail-m_6251499525385519313gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Alexandra E. Morgan</font></div><div style="font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Small Business Advisor</font></span></div><div style="font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Peace Corps Nicaragua</font></span></div><div style="font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">San Ramón, Matagalpa, Nicaragua</font></span></div><div style="font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">505.8855.0184</font></span></div><div style="font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div></div></div></div></div>
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