The Revolution for Equal Education

Bangalore, India’s Silicon Valley, has seen explosive growth. The world’s best IT organizations are based here with cutting edge research facilities. More than a million people work in this industry but sadly less than 10% of this workforce comes from the Government mass schooling system. 90% come from the privileged, private schooling system. Yet, more than 85% of this country’s children have access only to the outdated and moribund government system. 70% of children drop out well before they complete school and less than 9% of our children go to college. The poor and the other marginalized are being left out of India’s economic growth engine. Parikrma was created with a simple question – can any child, even the poorest from the slums of urban India, access the best opportunities and live a full and happy life?

Parikrma Humanity Foundation is a non-profit organization providing the best possible English language education to the poorest children from the slums of Bangalore, so that they can access the best opportunities anywhere in the world. Built around the ICSE curriculum, education at Parikrma includes sport, art, music, theatre, dance and wide exposure to the world. Parikrma also provides each child 3 meals a day, comprehensive healthcare and family care. Parikrma manages delivery of K-12 education, through 4 Centres for Learning and a Junior College for 1375 children coming from 69 slum communities and 4 orphanages. Less than 1% has dropped with 96% attendance since Parikrma began operations in 2003.

Now in its 10^th year of operations, two batches of Parikrma children are already in college, pursuing Engineering, Medicine, Law, Commerce, Art and other courses. This is part of a program call Final Leap, which sees children through college until they are placed in jobs and have finally broken out of the circle of poverty. Children from Parikrma have integrated well into college and are excelling in their fields of study.

Global exposure is key to education at Parikrma, as the children get little or no exposure of any form at home. At Parikrma, a Science beyond the classroom program with Space, Nature and Electronics Clubs ensure that they are exposed to the wonders of the world of Science. Children excel at sport and represent their school, state and even in country in various fields of sport. Six Parikrma children have attended the Global Youth Leadership Summit in San Diego. Over 40 children over the last few years have been part of the Duke Talent Identification Program that brings together some of the brightest young minds in the country.

Thus, education at Parikrma is far more than academic learning in the classroom. It is about learning to live in the new age world and to live a life on equal terms.

Suggest you learn what our colleagues in Togo are doing-- Stan Ingman Issue No. 87, August 2012

From a student and an intern in Social Work from UT-Austin who served FWOP in Mexico. Stan 

Dear Future Without Poverty team, 
This is Michael Romero, one of Syl's first interns at Mazamitla. 
Ever since my 2006 FWOP internship in Mexico, I became bonded to the idea of international and local social service. In 2008-2010 I served in Honduras with Peace Corps. I'm currently a School Social Worker and musician. I've learned one lesson over and over again: how much we have to and must learn from others. 

My band, Strumero, has co-written a FWOP song, "In Our Backyard," and several songs about helping people living in poverty and helping us remember our pespectives. We are now on a campaign to complete our 3rd album and hire a publicist. To do that, we have signed up on indiegogo.com/strumero Please check out the free music and fun videos you can get as well as valuable "perks" for joining our campaign. 

In addition, every day of the month of August, Strumero will post a new song at strumero.com (you can also buy our first 2 albums here), and at facebook.com/strumero

As Syl once told me, 'If you wait for all the lights to be green, you'll never get anywhere.' I wouldn't be the kind of person I am today without the experience and support of FWOP. I hope you can join us, even if it's just to listen!! 

Lo agradezco mucho,

-Michael Romero (strumero@gmail.com)

Inteesting model that FWOP has used. Staying with a village for 5- 10 years sometimes pay off. Stan 

Vocational training teams aid Adopt-a-Village project in Uganda
By Dan Nixon 
Rotary International News -- 18 June 2012 


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District 5340 VTT team member Charles DuVivier, of the Rotary Club of Encinitas, California, USA, discusses agriculture and irrigation techniques with a farmer in Nkondo, Uganda. Photo courtesy of District 5340 
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An Adopt-a-Village project being carried out by Rotarians in Uganda and California, USA, is helping to improve life significantly for people in Nkondo, Uganda. 
The project involves four of Rotary’s areas of focus: water and sanitation, basic education and literacy, disease prevention and treatment, and economic and community development. 
An important catalyst to the effort’s success is the vocational training team (VTT), a group of professionals that travels either to learn more about their vocation or to teach local professionals about a particular field. 
“The main role has been to help kick-start the project,” says Past District Governor Philippe Lamoise, who led a team from District 5340 to District 9200 in Uganda in late 2010 and early 2011. “The training I conducted was about business strategies, savings, and investments as they apply to family-size farming businesses.”

Some months ago, FWOP, UNT and others visited SuBire www.SuBire.mx in Guadalajara and began to map out a curriculum for sustainability education- a partnership with SuBire, FWOP and UNT. The Office of Sustainability at UNT will assist SuBire parents to deliver the program. We will have various skype joint conferences to develop the program- linking Mexico and Texas. 

Below is a youtube video of our conference at Subire with parents, staff and a some high school students. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPJY5gLtX9o

In October we will return to see how things are going with this effort. 

Stan

Social Economy in Basel. – Solar Energy and Urban Agriculture 

A board member of FWOP has been working to develop a social economy for the underemployed and the unemployed in Basel for some ten years. www.viavia.ch/netzbon 

The social economy Basel www.viavia.ch/netzbon is about to start a company to democratically invest in neighbourhood energy production. The first project is a 44,000kw/year 300m2 solar energy roof plant in a neighbourhood. Citizen controlled neighbourhood sovereignty in energy is the theme.

One of our urban agriculture projects – the permaculture community garden - made the final list for an award. Getting the award will also depend on whether the population will vote for it. Citizes were able to vote at www.faktor5.baz.ch until June 1st , and you see the pictures and short texts for all finalists. Google translator will no doubt be helpful. 

They recently received an award. Here is a video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3vRX3js89k
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Isidor Wallimann of our FWOP Board is the
President Social Economy Association and Network Cooperative and the President Urban Agriculture Association Basel

This is one approach to maintaining a quality life with limit income in a rich industrial society. The Social Economy of Basel has their own local currency ( BonNetzBon) as in many cities of Germany.

Stan

On NPR today, a panel outlined the food stamp issue. Seems we had 26 million on food stamps around 2008 in USA. Now it has moved to 46.5 million . Income level to receive food stamps for a family of 3 is below of $24,001. A women emailed in a story from Ohio. His son's family receives only $300 per month to feed his family. He lost his job recently. 

The discussion moved to cutting federal budget. One proposal is to cut the poor by 5%. This was compared to Obama proposal to tax those over $250,000 by 4%. Of course they would pay less tax on the first $250,000 of income. 

A panel member added the notion that the real tax money needs to come from those between $100,000 and $250,000 - the socalled middle class . However he argued we are afraid to address this fact. If we really want to address the deficit in federal budget, we will need to do so. I would quickly add that any new taxes should only happen with real federal cuts in the budget. It was also added that food stamp expeniture is most efficent way to stimulate the economy..especially in terms of government expenditure.

The EU mess seems to support this balance approach: more taxes with government cuts. Only cuts will not allow the economy to grow and allow the USA or EU to get out of the decession we now have. 

What do you think? 

Stan

I recently visited food bank serving some 15 marginal communities in Guadalajara, Mexico . Very similar to one you will find in Denton Texas. Well run. Mexico and USA are looking more alike in some ways. Recently it was reported that USA has some 46.5 million people using food stamp now. The median income of Canadians is higher that citizens in USA now it was reported. 
VEC or Volunarado Estamos Conitigo, AC operates the Food Bank in Guadalajara. Impressive organization. We were told that one wealthy family supports their work. www.voluntariadoestamoscontigo.mx FWOP hope to team up with them to create a healthy community in Los Molinos, in northeast Guadalajara. www.fwop.org 
Stan Ingman

Foverty and Women's power to shape the world is one key component to addressing Poverty in low Income Nations - The review below is a new book just being published by one of FWOP Board Members- Professor Isidor Wallimann who lives in Basel. Isidor has worked with friends in Basel to develop a strong Social Economy program in Basel. Recently they have joined forces with the Urban Agriculture Network in Basel to develop an interesting partnership. Stan 


Globalization and Third World Women: Exploitation, Coping and Resistance
Globalization and Third World Women: Exploitation, Coping and Resistance, edited by Ligaya Lindio-McGovern, Isidor Wallimann . Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2009. 214pp. $99.95 cloth. ISBN: 9780754674634. 
1. Torry Dickinson
1. Kansas State University
1. dickins@ksu.edu
It would be hard to read this collection and not sit up, set aside our global assembly line clothes and corporate coffee, and begin taking responsibility for how the world is developing. Taken as a whole, this is a pounding collection of global South-focused articles that can engross researchers, activists, and graduate and advanced undergraduate students. 
Focusing on women in the post-1970s period in the Third World, as seen within a global system, the collection contains five theoretical and contextual chapters on women’s resistance (Martha Gimenez) and six historically specific chapters about women’s struggles against the exploitation of labor, land, and resources in Southern Africa, Kenya, Nigeria and Ecuador, and the Philippines and South Asia. Methods include the analysis of secondary literature (Robert Dibie), archival research, newspapers, state records, UNIFEM reports (Christobel Asiedu), and field research. 
Key frameworks draw on gender-extended definitions of neo-liberalism and globalization (Ligaya Lindio-McGovern and Isidor Wallimann) and a global analysis of corporate- and state-imposed mixtures of waged and non-waged work, with the emergence of commoners’ movements as alternatives (Leigh Brownhill and Terisa Turner). Bringing back the importance of globally situated, regional core-satellite relations (as formulated by Gunder Frank in the 1970s), many writers examine how sub-imperial orbits form an integral part of global extraction and exploitation. For example, profit-makers operate within regional orbits of power when they bond, send and receive women in the sex trafficking industry (Bandana Purkayastha and Shweta Majumdar). Resistance to imperialism, including through regional organizing against sub-imperialism, helps to explain why ideas of national liberation often shape women’s transnational organizing. This affects how U.S. women from various diasporas connect to Third World homelands (Shireen Ally, Robin Magalit Rodriguez, and Anne Lacsamana). Intra-labor’s global relations also have enabled women in cooperatives to envision and build commons by working with middle-income supporters and consumers who live in the region and in the global North (Ann Ferguson). 
Women’s resistance to exploitation in the Third World addresses how neo-liberal accumulation rests on their backs. Globalization and development turn out to be the same side of the coin, and not different sides (p. 5); one side enriches the center’s corporations and the other impoverishes the South’s women and men, including through re-enclosures and state cutbacks. 
The remainer is in the ASA Journal ... 


© American Sociological Association 2010

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A board member of FWOP has been working to develop a social economy for underemployed and the unemployed in Basel for some ten years.   www.viavia.ch/netzbon 

The social economy Basel www.viavia.ch/netzbon  is about to start a company to democratically invest in neighbourhood energy production. The first project is a 44,000kw/year 300m2 solar energy roof plant in a neighbourhood. Citizen controlled neighbourhood sovereignty in energy is the theme.

One of our urban agriculture projects – the permaculture community garden - made the final list for an award.  Getting the award will also depend on whether the population will vote for it. You may cast your vote under www.faktor5.baz.ch where you see the pictures and short texts for all finalists. Google translator will no doubt be helpful.

They recently received an award.  Here is a video     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3vRX3js89k

Isidor Wallimann of our FWOP Board  is the

President Social Economy Association and Network Cooperative and the

President Urban Agriculture Association Basel

San Martin , near Mazamitla, Mexico moving forward

San Martin , near Mazamitla, Mexico moving forward.

Over many years FWOP worked with families trying to improve their existence a bit.  First,   with a generator  and later with three solar panels  some small amount of electricity was created for the residents .  Second, as they had to walk a mile or more for water,  FWOP and local residents  installed a gravity water system to bring water from a spring some two miles away to all houses.  No pumps were required. Third, a bath house with two toilets and a shower was  built later.  .  You can click on the you tube below to have a sense of how students from UNT and FWOP installed the water system.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1xrk4Fa2NI

Recently, GRID electricity has arrived to San Martin which means the generator and solar panels are no longer needed there.   FWOP is now planning to move the solar panels, invertor,  generators and batteries to a new village without electricity.  We will need to also buy electric cables, light sockets, and  plug-in receptacles for the walls. 

 One  resident  from another village has dropped  by Pato’s  home to asked FWOP  to consider moving the alternative energy system to their village.  

If you wish  to assist with a  few dollars to help us make the transfer  of the panels and the generator to a new location., go to   www.fwop.org   to make a welcome donation.

In the photo below,  Anthony is the  man on the left side who lives in San Martin.  Some two years ago, he repaired the gravity water system when the spring  went dry where we were collecting the water in a cistern buried in the ravine.   He relocated the cistern and reconnected the pipes.   He had been part of the original team to install the system.     He also heads up the committee to collect a few pesos to pay for gasoline for the generator.    

 Pato, to the right in the photo ,  is a FWOP colleague in Mazamitla who allow us to complete  our efforts  in the State of Jalisco.

 Elena who is sitting in the chair explained the water problem to Tom Benjamin some 8 year ago and took Tom on  a walk to show him how far it was to secure a bucket of  water.   Most older children and adults work in the fields nearby for one farm owner.    They have been squatting on this land for some thirty years.  FWOP has managed to secure them ownership to their land now. 

We have had challenges. At one stage someone was paid to cut the water line at 8am.   We managed to repair the line at 9am. Finally the  opposition gave up .    After we showed the land owner how to install such a system he was able to install  a large water  cistern near San Martin and thus the was finally able  to irrigate a five acre field with new avocado trees.   More work for residents of San Martin and more money for the landowner. 

Colegio Union Mexico- CUM

Colegio Union Mexico- CUM  by Stan Ingman

In Los Molinos , the owners of SuBire ( www.SuBire.mx ) a private school   (k- 12)  with some 1600 students  have built a new school in a lower income neighborhood, northwest of Guadalajara, Mexico.  CUM  will open this Fall .   

In Los Molinos there are some 6700 houses with  3- 4 individuals per household.  Each family will pay , the modest  sum,  of $80 dollars per month per child attending .    In partnership with FWOP  ( www.fwop.org)  and the University of  North Texas  (www.unt.edu ) , the owners of the new school have two important goals- “ it takes a village to raise a child “ - : 1, provide each student with a first-class education , and 2, assist families to create a healthy neighborhood.  An initial survey in August will attempt to secure parent involvement and begin to create a plan for moving forward with programming in partnership with the families . Poverty prevention and reduction are two long term goals in Los Molinos. 

On June 3^rd, I had the privilege as faculty from UNT and Board Member from FWOP to attend the auguration ceremeny of the school .   I spoke the 500 or more parents and children in the audience and  told them they were part of a movement to build healthy neighborhoods and communities across the globe.   

By Fall some 450 students will  be enrolled.  In a year or so, they will add a 10^th,  11^th and 12^th grades. The picture above shows  some of  the initial students who will  to attend this fall with their parents. There are no local schools nearby. 

Future Without Poverty ( FWOP ) Summit 2012

Future Without Poverty ( FWOP )  Summit

 Sustainability, Poverty Reduction, and    Technology  Summit  on 

Feb. 10^th and 11^th , in 2011 

Denton Independent School District  – Advanced Technology Center , 288 Highway, North Side of Denton, Texas    1504 Long Road, Denton Texas  was the location of first day.   First Panel n  : Technology for Sustainable Communities had James Bauer  from  Texenergy, Inc,  and Patrick Kelly, EPA,

Next was a competition where  three teams of high school students  in pre-engineering  from the Advanced Technology Center-DISD competed.   Their instructor, Tom Babb, introduced the students and the audience was asked to rank presentations and give feedback to the young students.  One project focused on creating a thermal water car.  Solar Logic in Munster, Texas had been assisting them in the project.  A second project was designing a system to make sure a model plane or drone would return back to base using a GPS system. A third project dealt with a punkin cannon to compete in national event. They have managed to create rotating barrel  to improve the outcome  and they  may be able to secure a patent for their invention.    

At noon   Stan Ingman discussed how the  Mujeres Vigilantes are  Building Low Income Sustainable Housing Communities in Mexico.  www.renamuni.org.mx

In the afternoon , various visitor focus on the progress of partner program in various nations  Serif Esendemir from Istanbul presented on the progress that had occurred in the village of Findik, Turkey ,   Soni Rao, told us about special school near Bangalore India,     Dr Oluwayemisi Obashoro-John from Lago, Nigeria and a  visiting professor at UNT  demonstrated how she had created a plastic mat using plastic bags. This was based upon project of the Wesley Student Center at UNT.  She will return to her university in May and create a student FWOP chapter at  the University of Lagos. 

Rev. Laud Brown  from Family Studies  Doctoral program at TWU gave us an update on how the senior center project in Ghana is moving forward.  Samuel Muwanguzi from Uganda  and doctoral student at UNT next explained  how he was transporting  solar lamps to a remote village  and how the demand was going up.  So FWOP  in partnership with Samuel will attempt to  raise funds for more solar lamps.  

John Hernandez and David Carrizales from Fort Worth  explained how they will working on Mexico-USA joint business deals to promote employment in both countries.  Amanda White then explained how the International Office at UNT was becoming a partner with FWOP to expand the network of sustainable communities  across the world. 

Tom Benjamin from his recent medical service trip to Haiti gave us an update on Haiti.  Unlike many media reports he was quite positive about the progress that has been made.

The conference moved to  “ La Milpa” for dinner in the evening of further discussion and planning .

On Feb.  11^th we moved to the Discovery Park at UNT on Highway 77   

We had a speakers from Mexico City, Kenya, Taiwan, Guadalajara  and Ripley,  Ohio by Skype. 


Mr  Gilberto Huitron, Special Assistant from Mujere Vigilantes office in Mexico City reviewed the new housing-resort project in the State of Hidalgo.  www.renamuvi.org.mx  . In the coming months some of the associates from FWOP plan to travel to the site north of  Mexico City.  www.ceasmexico.org.mx

Amos Wemanya  from Sustainable for All-Kenya gave us an update on the new sustainable village project being developed.   They recently held a conference on Climate Change and Sustainability in Narobi . Our colleague Raanan Katriz in Israel was able to do lecture for them by skype on sustainable agriculture.

Wesley Ye-jhong Cai from Taiwan from a shoe corporation in Taiwan discussed social responsibility and fair labor issues. We learned how the International Fair Labor Association operates around the world.  

From Guadalajara, Mexico,    Julio Saucedo , the Director of SuBire, discussed  the operation of a new school as the school  moves  toward sustainability  In partnership with UNT, U-Cincinnati, FWOP.   This private school has some 1600 students, in K- 12 grades.   SuBire opened in 2010  is a  School of Business and is  Bilingual,-English and Spanish school.     www.SuBire.mx  .

By summer a second school will be built in the northwest Guadalajara and will enroll some 400 elementary working class children.  The name of the second school is Colegio Union Mexico .   A third l rural school will also start in the Fall of 2012  on an experimental farm and start with 15 students  staying on the farm during the week.  The farm is near Lake Chapala.

Finally, Syl Flores, President and Founder of FWOP  spoke the conference participants from Ripley Ohio and encourage us to move forward.  We learned about the new student chapter of FWOP at UC-Clermont  in Ohio.  

Non Skype presentations were next on the agenda.  Dr Iftekhar Amin from UNT-Dallas presented the work on a non profit group that works on issues of health and poverty in Bangladesh.  www.spaandanb.org/nt/  He also reviewed how the famous Grameen Bank  in Bangladesh operates to give out micro loans and develop many businesses to support poor people.  

 Greg Bohl , President , Solar Logic,Inc. , Munster Texas and UNT Discovery Park www.solarlogic-csp.com  provide us with details on a new approach to solar power using glass tubes.

Finally, Tom Benjaimin out-lined a new approach to FWOP membership and this lead to a good debate and our current model of free memberships was implemented two week ago.

Finally we walked out to see the Zero Energy Lab House nearby.

 For a video of the conference  go to : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmTc_8v5ygs&feature=youtu.be

Summit 2012

 In January of 2012

we held our annual summit of Future Without Poverty. 
Building Progressive Communities: Locally and Internationally.
Future without poverty Summit (www.fwop.org)

                                      January 21^st

Goals for Summit:  1. Build Network of Mutual Support, 2. Create Concert Plans to Accomplish in 2011 in USA and Abroad ,  3. Create an Agenda for  FWOP in 2011 and beyond, 4. Fund Raising Initiatives- www.globalgiving.org   - create  6- 12 fund raising projects to submit to global giving in 2011 in partnership with FWOP .   For all presentations,   please prepare a one page abstract and bring 40 copies to be distributed.  Keep presentations limited to essential information so we can have a rich discussion.

Location:  Sara and Troy La Grone Advanced Technology Center –Denton ISD -on 288 Loop Denton Texas    (   Google Map to locate ) – Take Sherman Drive north from Denton.

Chairs: Miguel Juanez and Stan Ingman
8:15 to 9:00 am Registration

9: 00 – 10:00     Opening   - Introduction Miguel Juanez and Stan Ingman 

Status for FWOP Internationally:   Director of FWOP - Tom Benjamin  and Board President Syl Flores,  e.g.,  garden project in Dallas, online store, web page, possible spring break projects, summit in Mexico, Ripley historic farm, Ripley school project and future internships with FWOP.

Review of Sport Complex Project in Virginia ($10 million project )  and Ripley Program  ( Handouts) 

10:00 – 11:15     Panel 1::   International Initiatives-Chair Sylvester Flores       Mexico – Duane Gustavus – Micro Loan Program in Oaxaca,  ( www.envia.com ) ;  Sebastian Martinez, Former State Representative, State of Zacatecas (Fort Worth), Julian Gonzalez Trindad, Gabriela F. Santoyo, and colleagues, U. Autonoma de Zacatecas ,   Eduardo Contreras, FWOP Staff,   Mazamitla;      Joseph Gomez – “Hope for the Sole”- Juarez; Grace Bascope, Yucatan,  ( www.mayaresearchprogram.org/webcontent/yazanah.html.),    11:15 – 12:30   Panel 2::  International Chair Oscar Atumah  :    Kenya – Evans Wadongo,( CNN Hero of 2008)  Sustainable Development for All  ( calling in from Kenya ) http://sustainabledevelopmentforall.org/ ;  ;  Haiti – Fritz Armand, Miami ; Peru– Kalynn Van Wye- Los Martincitos Senior Citizen Center; Sierre Leone – Anthony Turay – ( KBI )  Kroo Bay Initiative; Cameroon- Margaret Bate-Ekombe and Kumba; Global Outreach – Nick Miller, World Hunger Relief  www.worldhungerrelief.org   , Elm Mott, Texas;   Bangladesh Iftekhar Amin and colleagues,  www.spaandanb.org/nt/index.php?choice=home

Other Opportunities 

  Nigeria-Oscar Atumah ; Togo- Ami Moore;  Turkey- Serif Esendemir,  India-Soni Rao;  Malawi-Michelle Poulin,   Haiti – Kendall Brune  and Gerson Nozea (Video)- Building 25 Homes with Fuller Center- ( www.growinghopeforhaiti.org )

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch    Tom Babb and Russ Keith,  Teachers at ATC-DISD – Technology for Building Sustainable Communities –From  Solar Panels for Rural Schools to World’s Fastest Electric Car to Horse Walker to generate power for Rural Schools.  

1:00 - 1:30     Joseph Gomez- Music for Community Empowerment

1:30 – 2:00   Clean Stove Initiative:  Potential Global Project:  Patrick Kelly, EPA etal

2:00 – 2:45     FWOP Chapter Reports:     Nick Booth -UNT- Denton,  Carolyn Kimbal and  Current President- UNT-Dallas and Miguel Juranez  - UNIVER- Sahuayo – Mexico.

2: 45 - 3:30     Panel--  Initiatives  USA – Chair Stan Ingman:     Kenny Dickerson, Duroville, California  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fc9EJqsdSM,   Carolynn Phillips, “SEDNA ( Southeast Denton)”;   Frances Rizo, “  Latin Elders in the Metroplex” ; Sydney Goodman,  “After School Initiative: Denton”  American Reads;  Jennifer Balcirak and Cammy Gaston,  ”Plastic Rugs for Homeless”, UNT-   Wesley Center;  Kaylnn VanWye,  “ Coats for Homeless” FWOP ,   Texas Outreach  – Nick Miller, World Hunger Relief  www.worldhungerrelief.org   , Elm Mott, Texas

3: 45 - 5:00     Planning for 2011 and beyond.       Tom Benjamin, Facilitator

Establishing Priorities - FWOP Chapters, FWOP Nationally, FWOP Internationally  and our Partners- Projects to be submitted to Global Giving in 2011. 

5- 6:00 pm   Hands on Workshop   Tom Benjamin, Chair “ Micro Gardens for a Household “,  “Plastic Rugs” ,  “ Stove Project”  ,  “Coats for Homeless” ,  etc. 

Dinner in Denton   

6:30 - 8:30 pm --   More Discussion for Those That Remain   – Dutch Treat at Local Restaurant- La Milpa at Teasley Ave  and I-35,  Mariahi Band at 8:30 pm.

Registration:   $10 for students and  $15 for non students  ( Lunch Provided) – Pay at the door or send check to  Stan Ingman,   2105 Carriage Hill Ave Denton Texas 76207   Make checks out to Future Without Poverty, Inc or FWOP .     Send email to stan.ingman@unt.edu  if you plan to attend. If your plans change please send an email or call   940 566 6151 if cannot attend.

Another option: FWOP Membership   $25 for 2011.   This will cover lunch and summit also. 

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