It's Getting Easier to Support People and Projects We Care About. So Let's Do More!: October 2006

It's Getting Easier to Support People and Projects We Care About. So Let's Do More!

Hi! My name is Tony Gambino. I'm a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (RPCV). I taught school from 1979-1982 in Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I've worked on international issues pretty much ever since. I think there needs to be a lot more support to help poor people overseas - and that those of us who are part of the Peace Corps community should help lead this. Talking about how we can do that is the purpose of this blog.

Sunday, October 22, 2006

VERY EXCITING NEWS FROM GLOBALGIVING -- AND A CHALLENGE TO PEOPLE WHO CARE ABOUT BURKINA FASO, MOROCCO, THAILAND

GlobalGiving has challenged people who care about the three projects posted. Help generate 100 donations to one of these projects by December 15. If that happens, an additional $5,000 will be donated.

What can you do? Send a copy of the link about the project and the challenge to a half dozen of your friends, emphasizing that YOU believe in this project and that it needs more support.

If you have another idea that helps engage others, please post it here.

We want to fully fund these projects, meet the GlobalGiving $5,000 challenge, and get many more people interested in helping people overseas.

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Name: Tony

Hi! My name is Tony Gambino. I'm a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (RPCV). I taught school for 3 years in Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I've worked on international issues since, with NGOs, USAID, the Department of State, and the Congress along the way. I think there needs to be a lot more support led by those of us who are RPCVs to help poor people overseas. Talking about that is the purpose of this blog. The National Peace Corps Association (NPCA) is in a partnership with GlobalGiving to give RPCVs a way both to contribute to projects supported by other RPCVs and, over time, to post projects of their own. This is an incredibly exciting new -- and much easier -- way for many more of us to contribute directly to helping people help themselves in developing countries. By the way, the picture is of me in the Congo in July 2006, serving as an elections monitor. I was in eastern Congo, mainly based in Goma. This is a picture of me there, with Goma's volcano, Mount Nyiragongo, in the background. I went with the Carter Center to observe the first democratic elections in the Congo since the early 1960s.

It's Getting Easier to Support People and Projects We Care About. So Let's Do More!

Sunday, October 22, 2006

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