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Travel warning waiver – submitted!

Woohoo! After months of meeting with Elon University officials, talking with our partner Restavek Freedom Foundation, drafting, editing, and re-editing – we have finally submitted a proposal to travel to Haiti in January 2015! The university requires these waivers to travel to countries that a travel warning from the U.S. Department of State. We’re hoping to visit Port Salud, where … Continue Reading

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’15 Class Progress 2/25

Upcoming event: This thursday, February 2/27!! Write red X’s on your hands to support the End It Movement, and join our Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1471860706375135/?notif_t=plan_user_invited   We had another lucrative class today. The biggest update is that Elon Academy decline our request to endow a student from Restavek Freedom Foundation to attend the summer program. So, now we’re focusing on creating an endowment … Continue Reading

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’15 Class Progress 2/18/14

The highlight today was a conference call with Christine Buchholz, the VP of the Board of Restavek Freedom Foundation! We developed our sustainable project ideas and got updates on the nonprofit. We are continuing to explore the possibility of creating an endowed scholarship for Elon Academy. Elon University has been ruled out as a beneficial option for the kids of … Continue Reading

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’15 Class Progress 2/11/14

Welcome back from the winter hiatus! The ’15 Periclean Scholars had their second class of the Spring semester today. For many, it was a welcome back from a semester or winter term studying abroad. Over the next several weeks, we will thoroughly enjoy hearing about their experiences abroad through small slideshows. Our main goal today was to form new committees … Continue Reading

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Steering Committee Notes 11/21

Class Updates 2016s: The class has been doing feasibility studies and successfully ruled out some infeasible areas of focus. Now they are exploring areas of focus that touch on several issues, such as education and water. The class is also working on final projects. These projects vary from the Cookies to Gogo, updating the portfolio, hosting a Honduran dinner, to communicating … Continue Reading

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’15 Class Progress

As we continue to explore and build our relationships with Alamance for Freedom and the Restavek Freedom Foundation, we would like to make some announcements of upcoming events: TOMORROW November 20th: A human trafficking panel will be in Lakeside from 4:00-6:00PM THIS FRIDAY November 22nd: Join us for a modern slavery walk in the Iconic Plaza (the new outdoor addition … Continue Reading

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’15 Class Progress – 11/12

We had one of our best classes yet today! Chris Esters from the Office of Advancement came to talk to us about the the possibility of creating a sustainable scholarship for students from Restavek Freedom Foundation. We would raise enough funds to create an endowment so that it would be sustainable – theoretically – forever. To fund a full-ride for … Continue Reading

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’15 Class Progress

We are excited to announce our formal human trafficking and restavek partners! Over the next year and a half and beyond, we will be working with the Restavek Freedom Foundation and the Alamance County for Freedom, a new human trafficking coalition. Last week we brainstormed ways we could get involved with these organizations, and today we challenged ourselves to make bigger … Continue Reading

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’15 Class Update 10/8/13

The Periclean Scholars Class of 2015 had a busy day today! Lauren Conrad, an ex Peace Corps member and ex Haiti resident, came to talk to us at the beginning of class. Her talk revolved mostly around how Haiti is different from other countries she has worked in, including Niger and India. Her impression was that the infrastructure and service … Continue Reading

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’15 Class Progress 10/1/13

Today we filmed for our elevator speech, which we will be releasing at Celebrate next Thursday! (October 10th at 5:30 in Oaks 212) While we won’t be able to organize a winter term course for 2014, we are hoping to have the travel waiver submitted and accepted by mid-spring to begin organizing trips before a Haiti WT course in 2015. … Continue Reading

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