HIGHLIGHTS
-NEON PARTY: THIS Saturday Feb. 20th at Alpha Del.
- Sign up to table at the party or in Wilson Commons in the available time slots below!
How did things go?
-Awareness Mixer- 12 total in attendance. Successful aspects: card games, meeting people from other clubs
-Museum of Play- 9 total in attendance. Successful aspects: it was fun!
Next time: laser tag?
Neon Party – Adge, Luke, Bridget
Donations – through UNHCR to Sudan, (97% goes straight there!)
- starts at 10:30pm in Alpha Del
-Adrienne – tables, non flex (beads and potentially glowsticks?, petitions)
Fliering:
Rush Rhees/Gleason! /ITS: Julia
Latt. And Morey:Bridget
Dewey, B&L, Hoyt: Cassie
Hutch, Hylan, Carlson, Goergen: Suresh
Phase: Adrienne
Towers: Elena
Sue B.: Luke
Party Volunteers:
10-10:30:---
10:30-11: Brinda and Danielle
11-11:30: Adrienne
11:30-12: ---
12-12:30: ---
Tabling Volunteers:
Thursday: Friday: Saturday:
11am-12: Elena and Bridget Bridget -
12-1pm: Luke - Rob
1-2pm: Adrienne - Rob
5-6pm: Kelli
Movie in Gleason – Brinda
-Thursday 03/04! 7:45-10pm.
Refugee tutoring – Suresh
- f! inalize who can still volunteer by next Monday, who can come Saturday the 27th! ---EMAIL JOE OR KELLI BY NEXT MONDAY IF YOU ARE INTERESTED!
- Saturdays 2pm à 1-2 hours
Mini-Jumpstart
Location: Lincoln School #22
When: Feb. 18-20
Time: 9:00 AM to 2:30 PM
- used to help newly arrived refugees to acclimate to school environment students from kindergarten-12th grade. 9am-2:30pm
- Three different days: first two days volunteers will have breakfast at 9am, field trip to Rochester Museum and Science Center, return by 12, lunch then class again. Third day is parent lunch and visit in the afternoon
Falling whistles
- movement to support international peace. (whistles were for 3-4 year olds too small to carry guns, job was to blow whistle when enemy was in sight and to take bulle! ts as bodyguards,) The speaker, Sean, went to DRCongo and is coming to Geneseo on April 10th. Joe will be in contact with him to sponsor him as a speaker!
Next Douglass Advocacy event
-guerilla theater, volunteers: Dimitri
- JOE! talk to IBTL, Todd theatre
Sweatpants
- somewhere between $20-30
Awareness Discussion – Suresh
- On the Healthcare system and effectiveness of relief aid tie.
- See this website for a great visual of relief facts: http://infobeautiful.s3.
- Wealth in Haiti is very shifted- a lot of the money is concentrated to top 1% and most of these people are centered in Port au Prince. Considering this and corrupt government shows even healthcare/medical system is bad, even in capital.
Health care affected by
o imbalance of wealth
o economic instability
Effectiveness of aid is centered upon
- transportation/infrastructure (ex. One road coming into port au prince from airport but split by earthquake- no way in)
- machinery to communicate at airports. *importance of communication(air traffic control issues)
- took the united states 3-4 days to get in
- Iceland and China were able to get in so quickly because of ships around Haiti
Least obvious effects of bad healthcare
-more deaths/births
-sanitation**- direct link with poor health. Perpetuates illness.
- Worldbank (an NGO) listed Haiti’s healthcare at bottom of Western hemisphere ( including south American countries)
-emergency care is available only to private institution! s ( again, the top 5% of population has access to these private institutions)
- US was largest donor to Haiti for relief efforts
- Dominican Republic helped facilitate aid ( airports and transportation)
Ongoing projects:
· Refugee CAMPus – Joe and Kelli
· Refugee crafts – Joe with Emergency
· Banaa.org – Bridget and Joe and Luke
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