NEWSLETTER March 15, 2012
Inside this Issue Facilitator Corner
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Our Projects
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Conferences
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UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR SOCIAL ACTION RESEARCH UCP-SARnet is a growing global social network that was created at Arizona State University in 2008. It is governed by students and young community activists. Its mission is to empower new generations of community leaders to become actively involved in the realization of the UN Millennium Development Goals. Utilizing the recent advances of Information and Communication Technologies, UCP-SARnet offers a platform for the multicultural exchange of visions, ideas and best practices aimed at achieving MDGs.
Regional Updates: Africa
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Asia
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North America
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South America
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Executive Team
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Advisory Board
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Member Organizations
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Collaborating 12 Knowledge Partners Directory
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Get Involved
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Newsletter Team: Mohamed Camara Abidah Khalife Dorav Kumar Osee Romeo Dr. Marek Wosinski
We engage university faculty and students in partnerships with community organizations, local governments and socially responsible corporations. Creating a powerful educational environment for students preparing themselves to become leaders, we also bring about a sustainable social change in their communities.
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Dear UCP-SARnet Partners, Members and Friends,
Facilitator Corner
Dr. Marek Wosinski
I wish we could always report good news on realization of our plans, but for now we have some challenges to face. Firstly, the "It Takes One" event planned by Forks for Change has been postponed till the fall semester. Although the club has been applying for grants and sponsorships all semester, there was not enough time to generate sufficient interest in this project and therefore they were unable to secure funding which in turn made it difficult to arrange for speakers and presenters. In addition another similar event is being organized at the same time by ASU Student Government. So, in the place of the grand concert envisioned for “It Takes One”, there will instead be a smaller scale inspirational event. The Global Poverty Project is coming to Arizona April 16th and 17th and Forks for Change will arrange for them to present at Arizona State University on both days. For the International Leadership Summit in China, we are still in the middle of the recruitment campaign and really hope that students, faculty, and community members will take advantage of this opportunity. The deadline for registration for the summit has been extended till April 30th to allow for more time for our network of contacts to spread the
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word. And once again, we sincerely ask all our members to share information about the Summit and help us to recruit participants that can contribute to leadership in their communities and who can also make a change for the Millennium Development Goals. As a reminder, the new UCP-SARnet based online course "Multicultural Perspective on Community Development" has been approved and cross listed by numerous ASU units and the recruitment for fall semester has already begun. More information about the course can be found on our website and the course itself can be found in the ASU course catalog as NLM 494, SOS 494, PAF 494, SSH 494, SWU 498, SWG 591, and CRD 598. And finally, we are still working out our collaboration with Gandhi Research Foundation and Jain Irrigation Systems, Ltd. Details of this collaboration will be finalized after the inauguration of the Gandhi Museum at the end of March. Altogether, we look with excitement for April and May when all our semester’s hard work and plans will hopefully materialize.
M.W.
Creating a better future for communities through research Founded in 1982, CCBR believes in the power of knowledge to impact positive social change. They are passionate about bringing people together to use knowledge to provide real and innovative solutions to community needs. Their approach to research is participatory and action-oriented in a way that mobilizes people to participate as full and equal members of society. www.communitybasedresearch.ca
IGLOO's social software solutions help organizations create vital connections between people, processes and information through the creation of online business communities. Companies use online communities to improve collaboration, knowledge sharing and drive employee engagement across geographically dispersed project teams, departments and business units inside and out. http://www.igloosoftware.com/
Turning theory into practice Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities/SWPS was founded in 1996 by former professors of the Institute of Psychology and the Polish Academy of Sciences. Ever since its foundation, the University has been continually growing and developing and now consists of 8 faculties located in five academic centers in Poland (Warsaw, Wrocław, Sopot, Poznań and Katowice). SWPS is committed to the highest academic standards as well as to the transfer of practical knowledge and skills. http://www.swps.pl/english/index.php
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Our Projects
We encourage your collaboration on these projects! Please contact us if you would like to get involved!
The main projects that UCP-SARnet has been coordinating over the years as well as a few newly started ventures include the following: “Bridging the World” virtual conferences, Stand Up Against Poverty events, Development of the Gandhi College of Social Work in India, Collaboration with the World Academy for the Future of Women in China, Leadership Summits in Asia and Africa, Collaboration on the ASU Interfaith Campus Challenge Project, the “Forks For Change” Club Chapter at ASU which promotes our mission through events on campus, and finally the various courses and opportunities that are available at ASU to get involved with UCP-SARnet. Visit the UCP-SARnet website to find out more about our projects and how to get involved.
New Project: International Entrepreneurship Workshop in India Last month during my visit to India I had the opportunity to meet the founder of a socially responsible company that can really make a difference for communities—Bhavarlal H. Jain is a millionaire entrepreneur in the Jalgaon District. Mr. Jain opened an entire complex that includes the Anubhuti school (images displayed are from the Anubhuti website), the Gandhi Foundation, and will also include a huge museum on Gandhian history and practices. The Jain Complex is very sustainable and environmental. They have collaboration with the farmers in the community around them—their research center studies plants as well as irrigation systems, they give their latest ideas to farmers to implement, the farmers then give crop back to Jain Irrigation Systems to make juices and other products in their factories, and both the farmers and the company profit from sold products. To be organized in collaboration with Gandhi Research Foundation and Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd, we hope to hold a one week long summer workshop that will train community leaders to create an ecologically sound agro-business based on effective water management practices. This will take place at the Jain Hills Complex and will focus specifically on the sustainable model that Jain Corporation successfully implements. More details on this to come later. Dr. Marek Wosinski Facilitator UCP-SARnet
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CONFERENCES
1st Annual International Leadership Summit Sias International University, Xinzheng City, Henan Province, CHINA July 1-23, 2012 Registration Deadline Extended. In order to accommodate requests and insure we have a full component of Summit participants it is essential that applications and registrations, including payment arrangement must be complete. Our extended deadline dates for managing this are below: Applications and Final Registration must be received by Full remaining balance of payment due by
April 30, 2012. May 14, 2012
Should you have any difficulty meeting this requirement please contact me immediately to determine how your participation will be completed. Participants traveling as a group/delegation and who are planning to pay as a group are asked to submit their payment plan and assurance of payment in order to insure that lodging, food and program materials are available for your group/delegation on Sias International University campus. Again, details and the full program for the summit is available at Global Interactions.org. Thank you for your vision and commitment to this Summit and to the Millennium Development Goals. Jerrie Ueberle President Global Interactions, Inc
Global Interactions, Inc. 14 West Cheryl Drive, Phoenix, Arizona 85021, USA Phone: (602) 906-8886; Fax: (602) 906-8887; E-mail: summit@globalinteractions.org
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Regional Updates: AFRICA
New Knowledge Partner: Care for Life Last week Linda Harper, president of Care for Life, and Ruth Ann Van Wagoner, administrative assistant, joined our executive team meeting to tell us more about how this organization was founded and how it progressed into what it is today. Mozambique, as many African Countries, is deficient in all areas of the Millennium Development Goals—poverty and extreme hunger are the norm, literacy levels are low, children die young with malaria being a common cause of death, pregnancy related complications leave children motherless, and then there are the unemployment rates, the HIV positive rates, and the preventable diseases due to improper sanitation to take into account. In the year 2000, midwife Cindy Packard, co-founder of Care for Life, traveled to Mozambique to see what she could do to help mothers and children at risk. When she met with the minister of health there, he told her that they really don’t need someone to deliver babies in displacement camps, what they needed was someone who could deliver life saving knowledge to the people. Cindy and her husband Blair tried to study what the most effective way to help would be. What they noticed was that a lot of the solutions being given to Africa were addressing secondary issues and not the primary source of problems. This is a basis as to why Care for Life was created. Their mission now goes beyond just child and maternal health, they work to transform impoverished families into self-reliant, sustainable ones. To help families in the long run, CFL developed the Family Preservation Program which is a holistic approach that focuses on 8 areas simultaneously. The Family Preservation Program makes families self-sufficient by having them set goals in each of the 8 areas and then work to accomplish these goals. An important fact to note though is that CFL works with the people and not
for them. The people do the work for themselves – they plant their own gardens, fix their own houses, buy the mosquito nets they need – it is all about giving the people selfreliance and the self-esteem they need to continue bettering their lives. As Linda Harper presented in this 10 minute video, the changes that come about in CFL villages are profound. Take the example of couple Maria Augusto and Ignacio Alberto Joquim. With the goals they accomplished through the family preservation program, they now have a new house foundation laid out, a latrine, and a business selling pigs and vegetables. But what is even more astonishing is the behavioral changes that came about from within the family unit. Ignacio used to be an alcoholic and an abusive husband as the once-helpless Maria states, but now he treats her well and is a better person; Maria is very happy with the changes in her life since CFL came to help her village. As families achieve their goals, every 6 months Care for Life acknowledges those achievements through specific predetermined rewards. Initially these rewards are what motivate the communities to set and accomplish more goals. But after the 2 and a half years that CFL is with them they already can see the permanent changes that are their motivation to continue what they have learned – their babies aren’t dying of malaria because of the simple mosquito nets, they aren’t getting diarrhea all the time due to latrines keeping waste separate from their drinking water, they have food, they have their own businesses that are generating an income, and they have a home. Visit the Care for Life Website to find out more about the organization and to find out how you can help in making these lasting changes to the lives of those in need. Abidah Khalife Assistant Editor UCP-SARnet
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Regional Updates: ASIA MDG Drinking Water Target Met Early! During my daily scanning of the news, I was pleasantly surprised to see some good news in what has a tendency to be a negatively-driven realm. The UN reported that the target for access to improved drinking water sources has been met before predicted but there is still work to be done regarding safe drinking water and sanitation. One important point to note is that the target referred to aims to “halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation” and hence although more of the world population is now confirmed to have access to improved water sources (safety of these sources aside), disparities still exist, with Asian countries having the least improvement in water access.
Images belong to UNICEF. Side note, Woodland is a sponsor of the UNICEF water and sanitation program in India.
According to the UNICEF/WHO Joint Monitoring Program report released in December, “Of the estimated 884 million people without access to improved sources of drinking water in 2008, 37% live in SubSaharan Africa, 25% in Southern Asia, 17% in Eastern Asia and 9% in South-Eastern Asia”. So although this March marks part of the water target being met, there is still work to be done to improve conditions in specific areas as well as to improve the overall access to safe water sources. These targets are in reach. Take note in the fact that what we do helps and that great things can still be accomplished if we are willing to work for them! Sonal Patel Member UCP-SARnet
Regional Updates: NORTH AMERICA New Member Organization: Asian Pacific Community in Action The APCA has been serving the Asian/Pacific Islander communities in Maricopa County since 2002 and specifically focuses on health-related issues. Their vision is to empower these communities via health awareness and to prevent loss of life due to preventable and treatable conditions. They provide access to various services to the communities they serve to accomplish this—vaccinations, Diabetes testing, Hep B screening, and mammograms to name a few. This Arizona based non-profit organization is one of the most recent additions to our network of member organizations. Welcome to UCP-SARnet APCA! Abidah Khalife Assistant Editor UCP-SARnet
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The Global Poverty Project Coming to ASU The Global Poverty Project is a community organization that was founded by Hugh Evans and Simon Moss to educate and bring awareness to the pandemic of extreme poverty. They do so through a compelling presentation—1.4 Billion Reasons—that is delivered around the globe. Australian-born actor and humanitarian Hugh Jackman signed on as a face for the Global Poverty Project Live Below the Line campaign, which challenges people for just 5 days to live on a small amount of money to better understand the conditions of living in extreme poverty, where extreme poverty is defined as living below $1.50 a day. Are you up for the challenge? The Global Poverty Project is going to be presenting at ASU on April 16th and 17th. Our Forks for Change members are finalizing the details and will be promoting the event in the upcoming weeks. Though we initially had our It Takes One event planned for that time, since we could not secure funding this semester that idea will have to be put on hold till next semester. We still hope that ASU students will benefit from the 1.4 billion reasons presentation and be equally motivated to get involved in volunteerism for the week of service and beyond. You can visit the Global Poverty Project website to find out more about what they do and to also to book a presentation or attend an existing presentation. Mohamed Camara Club President, Forks for Change Assistant Facilitator, UCP-SARnet
Regional Updates: SOUTH AMERICA Dead Dolphins wash ashore Peruvian Coastline This past month, hundreds of dead bottlenose dolphins have been found over 100km stretch of beach in North Peru. The potential causes of death are linked to off-shore oil exploration and drilling in that area. One possible way this could have caused the deaths is by the dolphins consuming smaller fish that were in turn contaminated by the effects of oil exploration. Though the exact reasons for the deaths are unexplained as of yet, it is certain that human activity is the culprit. At a time when reducing biodiversity loss is crucial to ensure environmental sustainability by year 2015 (MDG 7), it is important to get human activities that are damaging to animal habitats in check before the effects become irreversible. Though the bottlenose dolphins are not endangered, something that could harm this highly adaptable species in such large numbers poses a risk to more susceptible marine animals and should not be taken lightly. Abidah Khalife Assistant Editor UCP-SARnet
Image belongs to National Geographic.
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Activities of the Executive Team
Learn more about our executive team members by checking out their profiles.
Our Month in Meetings (see the blogs for more details): February 17th, 2012 Today's Leadership Team Meeting was optional due to a concurrent meeting of UCP-SARnet with Helios Foundation. Executive team members were encouraged to instead meet up and work on assigned tasks and projects.
February 24th, 2012 This meeting was dedicated to going over various new and upcoming partnerships. We have a new advisory board member, Dr. Rimjhim Aggarwal with the Global Institute of Sustainability, we have a few new organizational and knowledge partners that have been added to the website, and we have a few new executive team members. The bulk of this meeting was dedicated to getting background on the Peace Corps from our newest UCP-SARnet member, Chris Wells, who volunteered with the organization.
March 2nd, 2012 The Care for Life president Linda Harper and administrative assistant Ruth Ann Van Wagoner joined us today to tell us more about their organization and about their work in Mozambique. Care for Life has been a registered Non Governmental Organization since 2002 and has developed over the years from an organization concerned with child and maternal health to one that focuses on changing families and communities entirely with their 30 month program that helps entire villages accomplish goals towards becoming more self-sufficient.
March 9th, 2012 This meeting was devoted to a presentation by Doug Hirano and Kamana Khadka, sharing with us background on their organization—Asian Pacific Community in Action—one of UCP-SARnet's newest organizational members.
Introducing Members of Our Advisory Board New Advisory Board Member: Welcome Dr. Rimjhim Aggarwal It is my pleasure to inform you that Dr. Rimjhim Aggarwal from the ASU Global Institute of Sustainability (GIOS) has joined the UCP-SARnet Advisory Board. She agreed to help us in developing our partnership with Jain Irrigation Systems, Ltd in India as well as in establishing collaboration with GIOS. As per her ASU biography, “Dr. Aggarwal's research explores global dimensions of sustainability such as the links
between globalization, local ecosystems, and poverty in lessdeveloped countries. She has conducted extensive field work on groundwater-irrigation institutions in India; her recent research examines the emerging tradeoffs between water availability and the growing demands of agriculture in dryland regions of the world”. Please welcome Dr. Aggarwal into our community! Dr. Marek Wosinski Facilitator UCP-SARnet
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Introducing Members of Our Advisory Board The following distinguished colleagues agreed to serve on our Advisory Board:
Rimjhim Aggarwal, Arizona State University (USA),
Aecio D’Silva, University of Arizona (USA), Robert Cialdini, Arizona State University (USA),
Kim Eagles, Grassroots Activist (USA),
Liz Cunningham, University of Brighton (England),
William A. Foster, Foster and Brahm Management Consulting (USA),
Jan Sadlak, Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities (Poland),
Rajesh Jangareddy, Vitesse Semiconductor (India),
Daniel Schugurensky, Arizona State University (USA),
Solomon O. Kanu, Kanu and Associates (USA),
Jerrie Ueberle, Global Interactions Inc. (USA),
Grazyna Prawelska-Skrzypek, Jagiellonian University (Poland),
Christopher Zambakari, Student Representative (USA).
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Member Organizations AASRA for Community Transformation (ACT) is a non-profit advocating for universal human rights and children’s rights. Website: www.aasraindia.org/ African Woman and Child Features Service (AWC) ensures that the voices of the women and children in Africa, and the issues they face, are better represented in mainstream media. Website: www.awcfs.org/ Ann Foundation empowers people who live with the daily challenges of vision impairment, hearing loss and other disabilities in some of the world’s most impoverished places. Website: www.AnnFoundation.org Anti-Poverty Project (TAPP) assists communities through job training, personal development training and providing technology to non-profit organizations and to the disadvantaged. Website: www.tapp.org. Asia Pacific Community in Action. Created in 2002, the mission of the Asian Pacific Community in Action is to improve the health and well-being of the Asian Pacific Islander community in Maricopa County through empowerment, health promotion, and disease prevention. http://apcaaz.org/ Association for Welfare, Social Action, and Research—India (AWSAR) is an organization comprising of a group of professional social development workers from diverse background. Website: www.awsarindia.org/. Beam Foundation provides needy children in the developing world with school uniforms and necessary school supplies. Website: www.beamindia.org/ Cameroon Association for the Protection and Education of the Child (CAPEC) works with children, youth, parents, and governmental bodies to identify the needs of underprivileged children in Cameroon. Website: www.capecam.org. The Canadian Forum on Civil Justice works towards a civil justice system that is accessible, effective, fair and efficient. Website: cfcj-fcjc.org/news/ The Centre for Community Research and Action, Laurier works to advance community knowledge, social policy, and practice for community wellness and social equity. Website: www.wlu.ca/homepage.php?grp_id=2615 Changes for New Hope supports the impoverished children from the Peruvian Andes region through educational programs, personal development, and building of social and emotional wellbeing. Website: www.changesfornewhope.org The Community University Research Alliance explores new ways of providing community mental health support. Website: www.communitybasedresearch.ca/takingcultureseriouslyCURA/ Department of Youth Development, Sport & Training (Vanuatu). A government ministry that oversees sports and recreation along with technical vocational education and training which provides applicable life-skills to Youth and forges national, community and individual development. No Official Website: More Info Here. Ecuador Volunteer Foundation volunteers for social, community, educational, healthcare, and ecological projects throughout Ecuador. Website: www.ecuadorvolunteer.org/ FIRBEJC—Fondation Islamique de Recherches pour le Bien-Etre de La Jeunesse Congolaise—is an NGO dedicated to helping youth in region fight economic, human, sociocultural, and political poverties. No Official Website. More Info Here. Global Thinking Women empowers women of all ages throughout the various stages in their lives. Website: www.odatsglobaltrainingandrecruitmentservice.com/index.html Greater Boghé Area Association, INC is a US based organization that partners with groups in the Boghé region of Mauritania to improve health conditions there and underlying factors affecting health. Website: www.boghe.org/ Helping Lives International is a non-profit focusing on eradicating poverty. Help youth gain employment and to work as Ambassadors and leaders. Website: www.helpinglives.7p.com/ International Youth Peace Tourism & Development Initiative (Nigeria) is an NGO that envisions volunteerism, especially of young tourists, as a key to accomplishing the MDGs and achieving sustainable development worldwide. Website: iyptding.wordpress.com.
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Member Organizations India Vision Foundation (IVF): founded in 1994 by Dr. Kiran Bedi to expand upon the work of Navjyoti India Foundation. It strives to improve conditions in prisons, the lives of those incarcerated and that of their children. Website: www.indiaviosionfoundation.org/ Kalawa Library and School Project is a non-profit organization that endeavors to develop the next generation by providing basic library resources and teaching materials to several cities in Kenya that are in dire need of such resources. They are interested in gathering information to develop programs that will facilitate youth leadership and development. Website: kalawalspinc.org/ LUKMEF helps Cameroon to embrace peace, non-violence, social justice, and sustainable development in order to alleviate poverty. Website: www.lukmefcameroon.org/ Navjyoti India Foundation (NIF) was founded in 1988 by Dr. Kiran Bedi. NIF works in collaboration with IVF for positive change, beginning with a flagship program for correction, drug-addiction and rehabilitation. Website: www.navjyoti.org.in/ Network of East West Women - Polska (NEWW-Polska) is a Poland-based women’s advocacy network that provides knowledge and resources to empower and strengthen women while working towards social and economic equity. Website: www.neww.eu/en/about/neww/0.html “New Choice” Children’s Charity (Mongolia) is a non-governmental, non-profit organization based in Ulaanbaatar that seeks out volunteers to participate in their many projects based around helping the Mongolian community especially underserved children and orphans. Website: www.volunteer.org.mn/. Nigerian Youth Climate Coalition (NYCC) is focusing on climate change and collaborates with collaborating with youth, policy makers, and other stakeholders. Website: nigerianyouthclimatecoalition.blogspot.com/ Pluribus Europe is a consulting organization which coaches and trains their clients, comprised of international companies, in diversity and inclusion techniques at all levels of corporate management. Founded in 2006. Website: www.pluribus-europe.com/en/ Social Care Youth Initiative (Rwanda) is a youth-run organization that also incidentally works for the empowerment of youth in their region. They are devoted to accomplishing the MDGs as well as to addressing issues of Human Rights and Justice through various programs that they have developed. Website: scyi-rwanda.weebly.com. Somali Family Services, established in 2003, envisions a peaceful and thriving Somalia. They promote the causes of human rights, social justice, democracy, and sustainable living by empowering the marginalized groups and communities in the country. Website: ussfs.org. Students Travel and Exposure South Africa (STAESA) is a non-profit organization promoting and enhancing cultural exchange and development in Africa. Website: www.staesa.org/ TESA is a nonprofit organization aimed at researching, training researchers, outlining an implementing projects for the promotion of sustainable economy. Website: www.fundaciontesa.org/eng Unreasonable Institute supports globally-minded social entrepreneurs who are developing solutions to pressing issues. Website: unreasonableinstitute.org/ UCP-SARnet The Gambia is an officially registered NGO that undertakes a diverse and creative range of educational, humanitarian, and peace-building initiatives in to help achieve MDGs in the Gambia. Website: ucpsarnet.iglooprojects.org/gambia. Woman As Hero is an ASU Student Organization driven by the importance of the empowerment of women to societies. Their main interests are education and entrepreneurship opportunities for women, and they hold awareness campaigns on gender-related issues such as violence against women to spread the message. Website: womanashero.weebly.com Youth Alliance for Justice & Peace (Sierra Leone), an NGO dedicated to the youth in the region fights the evils of poverty by encouraging saying no to narcotics, by creating education and employment opportunities, and by providing desperately needed housing and medical care. This NGO unites youth, gives stronger self-worth, and allows them to help their own country. No Official Website: More Info Here.
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Collaborating Knowledge Partners Amity University (India) is one of the best private universities in India with over 50000 students. Website. Care for Life is a nonprofit organization operating in Mozambique and dedicated to promoting self reliance and instilling hope in families in poorer regions of this country. Website. Centre for Community Based Research brings people together to share knowledge in order to impact positive social change. Website. Coaching the Global Village works with social changers to use coaching to create innovative solutions to pressing global challenges. Website. Comunitaria provides technical support and tools for community and psychosocial intervention programs. Four professional psychologists run this organization. Website. Community-Campus Partnerships for Health promotes health through service-learning, community-based participatory research, broad-based coalitions, and other partnership strategies. Website. Community Toolbox provides resources for community leaders. Website. East Europe Foundation seeks to support successful community-driven development initiatives. Website. Global Alliance for ICT & Development creates an inclusive global forum and platform to promote discussion on using ICT for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. Website. Global Alliance for Community Based Research promotes Community-Engaged Research as a fundamental means to contributing to human betterment by the sharing of knowledge across the world. Website. Global Interactions, Inc works with professionals to interact with domestic and global counterparts to increase exchange of practices, technologies, and research. Website. Indira Gandhi National Open University (India) offers 338 programs of study through over 3,500 courses to a cumulative student strength of over 30 million students. Website. Jagiellonian University (Poland) is the second oldest university in Europe located in Krakow. Website. Leadership Learning Community identifies, evaluates, and applies ideas and practices in leadership development in order to make leadership more effective. Website. Orbis Institute develops global leaders through programs that advance awareness, critical thinking, and action. Website. Sias International University combines Chinese educational philosophies with Western educational models to develop professionals who are prepared to meet the demands of trans-national corporations and enterprises. Website. SoReCom conducts and disperses research that focuses on social issues relevant to Europe and its policies. Website. Taking It Global uses the power of online community to facilitate global education, social entrepreneurship, and civic engagement for millions of youth worldwide. Website. UN Millennium Campaign supports and inspires people from around the world to take action towards the Millennium Development Goals. Website. United Nations Foundation advocates for the UN and a platform for connecting people, ideas and resources to help the United Nations solve global problems. Website. Video Voice Collective: brings academic researchers, filmmakers, technology mavens, social justice champions, and community leaders together to improve the health conditions of underserved communities. Website. Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities is a private university that educates students in psychology, philosophy, humanities, and social sciences. Website. World for World Organization (Italy) is an Italian-based non-profit organization, operating in Italy and internationally. Website.
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Directory HEAD OFFICE Arizona State University Department of Psychology P.O. Box 871104, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA Tel. 480-965-6253 Email: ucpsarnet@gmail.com FACILITATOR Executive Officer Dr. Marek Wosinski* Email: dr.marek@ucpsarnet.org
ICT TEAM
CANADA
Uttam Bhat Adam Euerby Dorav Kumar* Mohan Moorthy Loc Nguen* Karan Puttannaiah*
Contact Person: Adam Euerby Candidate M.ASc. Systems Design Engineering, B.ASc. Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo Advanced Interface Design Lab 1.519.888.4567 x34904 aeuerby@engmail.uwaterloo.ca
EXECUTIVE TEAM * executive team members already listed above in this directory are marked with an asterisk
ASSISTANT FACILITATOR FOR AFRICA Osee Romeo Tcheupgoum Email: oseeromeo@asu.edu ASSISTANT FACILITATOR FOR ASIA & PACIFIC Birendra Kumar Email: birsoni@gmail.com ASSISTANT FACILITATOR FOR EUROPE Ganeswar Sahoo Email: gs.oneworld@gmail.com
Iris Drower Dr. Eva Szeli Lauryn Bates Mohamed Camara Alexis Huth Fritzgerald Jerome Angela Kabasan Abidah Khalife Carlos Plascencia Dieu Sababera Marie Simonsen Christopher Wells
UNITED STATES Contact Person: Mohamed Camara Department of Psychology P.O. Box 871104, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA Tel. 480-965-6253 Email: ucpsarnet@gmail.com
SOUTH AMERICA Contact Person: Susana Pesis Email: susanapesis@gmail.com ADVISORY BOARD
ASSISTANT FACILITATORS FOR NORTH AMERICA Osee Romeo Tcheupgoum* Email: oseeromeo@asu.edu ASSISTANT FACILITATOR FOR SOUTH AMERICA Susana Pesis Email: susanapesis@gmail.com
ASSISTANT FACILITATOR John Mabey Email: johnmabeyadvisor@hotmail.com ASSISTANT FACILITATOR Robby Uppal* Email: ROBBY.UPPAL@gmail.com COORDINATOR OF INTERNATIONAL EVENTS Andy Chen Email: guohuiandy@163.com ICT COORDINATOR Adam Euerby Email: aeuerby@engmail.uwaterloo.ca ICT ASSISTANT COORDINATOR Dorav Kumar Email: dkumar6@asu.edu
REGIONAL OFFICES AFRICA Contact Person: Osee Romeo Tcheupgoum No. 1 Ansumana Ceesay Street, Dippakunda UCP-SARnet -The Gambia (Non-Profit & Charitable organization) P.O.BOX 2192, serekunda, KMSD. The GAMBIA Tel. (00 220) 6548963/7953521/ 3438 808 /6717761 Email: oseeromeo@yahoo.ca ASIA & THE PACIFIC Contact Person: Birendra Kumar University Community Partnership for Social Action Research Network. UN Commission on Sustainable Development (Youth and Children Major Group ) Tel. +91-9910711112 Email: birsoni@gmail.com
EUROPE Contact Person: Ganeswar Sahoo via s cosma e damiano 103 trento, tn 38122, ITALY Tel. +39 3319782685 Email: gs.oneworld@gmail.com
Rimjhim Aggarwal, Arizona State University (USA) Robert Cialdini, Arizona State University (USA) Liz Cunningham, University of Brighton (England) Aecio D’Silva, University of Arizona (USA) Kim Eagles, Grassroots Activist (USA) William A. Foster, Foster and Brahm Management Consulting (USA) Rajesh Jangareddy, Vitesse Semiconductor (India) Solomon O. Kanu, Kanu and Associates (USA) Grazyna Prawelska-Skrzypek, Jagiellonian University (Poland) Jan Sadlak, Warsaw School of social Sciences and Humanities (Poland) Daniel Schugurensky, Arizona State University (USA) Jerrie Ueberle, Global Interactions, Inc. (USA) Christopher Zambakari, Student Representative (USA)
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