| Greco-African
Event (6/23/08) |
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Gebzha African Festival & Silent
Auction (3/28/08) |
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Ethiopian
School Construction Initiative
Kickoff Event |
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Concert
for Cambodia
(1/23/06) |
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Youth
Ambassador Trip to Cambodia
(February 2005) |
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Trip Documentary |
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Eye
on Cambodia
Youth Leadership Conference
(12/26/04) |
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Symposium
on Cambodia and Landmines
(Spring 2004) |
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Youth
Coalition for Mine Action Conference
(3/07/02) |
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| Demining
With Partners: Signing Ceremony for Funding Demining
of Bosnian Village (2/08/01) |
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YOUTH COALITION FOR
MINE ACTION
CONFERENCE PROGRAM - THURSDAY
MARCH 7, 2002
PURPOSE OF CONFERENCE:
- To share our student-led global landmine
service initiative
- To create a New Jersey Youth Coalition
for promoting landmine removal and victim assistance projects
- To encourage and support the development
of your own landmine service campaign
YOUR SCHOOL SERVICE ORGANIZATION WILL
BENEFIT BY:
- Learning about a model for global
service learning based on student leadership
- Meeting and learning from key landmine
activists
- Receiving outstanding curricular materials
on the global landmine crisis
- Receiving tools, guidance and support
for initiating your own landmine awareness campaign
- Meeting other youth student leaders
in northern New Jersey and working with them toward a
common humanitarian goal
STRUCTURE OF CONFERENCE:
- Keynote speaker
- Workshop sessions with landmine activists
- Opportunities to meet other student
leaders and begin planning a landmine awareness campaign
- Invitation to join the students of
Tenafly and Global Care Unlimited, Inc. in a global service
campaign to save lives and assist in the rehabilitation
of landmine survivors
SPEAKERS/PRESENTERS:
Dr. Ken Rutherford, Keynote Speaker
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Credentials: |
Landmine survivor, Co-founder
of Landmine Survivor Network |
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Topics: |
Rehabilitation
of a landmine survivor |
Martin Donoghue
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Credentials: |
Program Officer, United
Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) |
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Topics: |
Types of antipersonnel
landmines and the demining process |
Paul Heslop
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Credentials: |
Vice-president, HALO
Trust USA
Over ten years of demining experience worldwide |
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Topics: |
The daily work of deminers
The demining principles and philosophy of HALO Trust |
Mark Hyman
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Credentials: |
Tenafly teacher and
advisor for the Tenafly Middle School Landmine Awareness
Club
Founder and Chairman of Global Care Unlimited, Inc.
(GCU) |
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Topics: |
Initiating school-based
landmine education and fundraising campaigns |
Colonel William McDonough
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Credentials: |
Coordinator, Organization
of American States Mine Action Program
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Topics: |
A detailed description
of the socio-economic training offered by the OAS to
Nicaraguan landmine survivors |
Ed Miles
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Credentials: |
Landmine survivor and Associate Director (VVAF)
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Topics: |
Rehabilitating from
a landmine accident
VVAF rehabilitation programs worldwide
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Dave Rabadan
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Credentials: |
Director, Multilateral
Programs
U.S. State Department Office of Mine Action Initiatives
& Programs (MAIP) |
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Topics: |
Role of U.S. State Department
in humanitarian demining programs |
Dr. Raquel Willerman
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Credentials: |
Senior Officer, Institutional
Giving and Program Development, Landmine Survivors Network
(LSN) |
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Topics: |
Advocacy programs for
landmine survivors worldwide |
Ashley Woolsey
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Credentials: |
Tenafly high school
student leader for the Landmine Awareness Club
Co-coordinator, Landmine Removal Initiative of Global
Care Unlimited, Inc. (GCU) |
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Topics: |
Roles and responsibilities
of student service leader
Developing a student -led landmine presentation |
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