[Lekooks] Fwd: Fundraising email

[Barbara Hoel]

Hi all!

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!!)

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.

Thanks so much!

Barbara

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Alexandra Morgan
Date: Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 12:47 PM
Subject: Fundraising email



Dear family and friends,




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 *54 Nicaraguan Youth* can receive training in
project management and design, with the end goal of implementing projects
across each of their communities.



*This camp is a unique opportunity for Nicaraguan youth*. 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, *it’s
imperative that we train the next generation of Nicaraguan youth to design,
implement, and manage their own community projects*.



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.



Youth Leadership Camp 2017 is partnering with the YMCA of Nicaragua to
implement the Design for Change curriculum, but *we need your help to make
this camp happen*. 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.



Please consider donating to our camp. *We need to raise $7400 USD* 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!


*Click here
<https://donate.peacecorps.gov/donate/project/youth-leadership-camp-2017/> to
donate!*

-- 
Alexandra E. Morgan
Small Business Advisor
Peace Corps Nicaragua
San Ramón, Matagalpa, Nicaragua
505.8855.0184
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