Minutes, October 16, 2008

Welcome

Nov. 19th- Wednesday, UNICEF conference: final list of people going needs to be sent in tomorrow
Everyone who needs a letter to get out of class needs to email Kara

Oct. 21st- Conference: 168 high school students are coming for discussions

11:30 panel discussion that SA’s are encouraged to participate in & a lunch afterward where
SA’s would be wanted to mingle with the students

SA’s should wear their UNESCO shirts to the conference if they have them; otherwise navy shirts and khaki pants

Conference goes from 9-9 - For the full schedule visit: http://www.unescochair.uconn.edu/upchrconference.htm

New Shirts? Nicole, Julie, and Simon will work on a new shirt design

Oct. 17th -People going to the soup kitchen tomorrow will meet at 3:30 in the UNESCO office

Oct. 23rd-SA’s going to Lawyers without Borders will drive over together next Thursday

Feedback on FYE workshop:

We’d like to expand the workshop out to different FYE classes and possibly RA
programs

It would have been better to have run through the presentation a couple of times
and have a timeline worked out about how long we wanted to talk about
[Other feedback: More real life examples from Student Ambassadors would be helpful for students to connect and relate . . . to place themselves in the shoes of change makers.
Consider surveying students to understand the impact of the conference]

It’d be good to send out an email to the FYE director about the possibility of doing a lot more workshops.

Brainstorming for Different Events/Issues to Focus On:

• World water day event working with Eco Husky
• Poverty dinner: charging people for ex. $10 and then people will be given a sheet of paper explaining what class of society you belong to and based on that you’d get certain foods and you’d sit at ex. A table or on the floor and then money was collected for homeless & food shelters—possibility of having someone from covenant soup kitchen come and talk
• David Adams lecture
• HR’s film or a speaker
• Something to do in Idealist United week
• Eradicating Malaria
• Genocide: history, information, Darfur
• A thousand paper cranes?
• Homeless shelter: volunteering or raising money, might be good to talk to CO, they have a semester long program- Inequality within the US, and education problems
• Human Trafficking
• AIDS
• Having our own alternative break?
• MDG’s
• Art show of Caribbean paintings & selling them to raise money for a school
• Environment
• Fair trade issue educating people about what it really means and how to know what you’re buying is fair trade- getting all the products here to be fair trade through the CO-Op- do research on different companies and their fair trade possibilities
• Water- clean water & access to water & portable
• NGO’s
• UN standards
• Humanitarianism

Discussion on Human Rights & Religion
We all looked at UDHR for information on articles that apply to religious human rights