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Minutes 4/8/'09

Present: Erinn, Julie, Alana, Simon, Adan, Jenn, Kara, Dan, Shefali, Sharielle, Abena, Amanda, Pronoma, Aaron, Hannah
Letter from Kerry

• Beautifully written, we miss you/her too!

Workshop on HIV/AIDS report

• Went really well
• students already knew how malaria works, had some form of sex ed
• Did map project on where students thought HIV rates were highest and lowest, did quite well
• for Malaria, Erinn, showed video

Workshops at other schools?

• Robertson school-Manchester
• Willimantic/Windham high school/Windham Middle School

Plan Conference?

• Include Mansfield and Windham 
• A lot of work, but great opportunity to bring people together
• Keep on working with MMS, and other schools
• Have past participants help teach workshops
• Underprivileged, under served schools
• need to approach Human Rights education as not ideal, abstract, but something that's implemented everyday

EAT!!!

Walk for Hunger

• Aim for $475, each of us should raise $20
  
• Go to website at http://site.foodshare.org/site/TR/Events/WalkAgainstHunger?fr_id=1050&pg=entry to join the Student Ambassadors team

Reflections on Adan's grandfather's visit
Sharielle's Presentation on Gentrification

• REALLY good discussion/debate
  

Minutes April 2nd 2009

Presente: Aaron, Sharielle, Amanda, Erinn, Adan, Dan, Jason, Kara, Rafa, Stephanie, Allison, Simon, Jenn, Romana
Regards: Alana, Nikki
UN Agenda for Tomorrow

• cameras are allowed

Commissioner Zonke Majodina, Deputy Chairperson, South AFrican Human Rights Commission and Member of the UN Human Rights Committee

• 4-6 PM SU 312
• Confirmed: Abena, Amanda, Erinn, Alana, Jennifer, Romana, Hana, Niki, Rafael, Pronoma, Sharielle, Allison, Dan, Aaron

UNESCO Lecture Series:

• UN and Human rights in Africa: Reflections of a UN diplomat with Abdulrahim Abby Farah
  
• Thursday, April 19, 12:30-1:45 Castleman 212
  

Ripples of Hope

• Please take poll on blog
• Still accepting articles through next week

MMS update

• went really well
• talked about gender equality
• Talked about education, lack of access to it

Eating...end of semester coming quickly!
Walk for Hunger-Sharielle

• Free to walk
• in Hartford
• May 3rd
• Drafting of parent letter to go on walk for hunger
• invite families to come
• Pennies for Hunger-Penny Wars
  

Combat HIV/AIDS Workshop

• includes malaria, TB, toher serious diseases
• avoid talking about sex/transmission
• Cup and liquid activity
  
• Malaria/TB-facts, impacts, history, etc..
• connect HIV to Maternal/Family
• link it to importance of education
• Dots activity-stigma
• Guessing Game
• creative informing

Maternal Health

• access to healthcare/quality of healthcare
• child survival rates around the world
• positive projects
• Obama's Child Healthcare plan
  
• Find surprising facts against US
• maternity/paternity leave
• insurance-healthcare
• costs->hard choices
• malnutrition
• parishable goods
• Education->occupation