Category Archives: Class of 2016: Honduras

Exciting First Day Back: August 26, 2014

By Arianna Brown | Published August 31, 2014

Our first day of class is complete for the new 2014-2015 year and the “welcome back” and “how was your summer?” questions dissolved quickly into one of the most productive sessions to date. With a smaller cohort it is always interesting to predict the general mood and productivity level of the class with a high level of uncertainty. However, luckily, this was not the case. We jumped right back into one of our most planning-intensive events to date with immediate delegations of class members into small groups (committee-esque) each taking on different roles in our upcoming Periclean-in-Residence.
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A long-term legacy of Periclean involves the integration of our correspondence with partners and long-distance organization into the on-campus, out-of-class conversations about relevant topics we study. For us, our week full of exciting events involves five key players: our two partners Maggie Ducayet and her husband of Summit in Honduras, Karen Godt of Hope for Honduran Children, Dr. Carmen Monico of the Human Services Studies program and Guatemalan native, and a representative of the UNC Greensboro Center for New North Carolinians.
(Read more about this great program here: http://cnnc.uncg.edu/sustainable-communities-regional-planning-project/)
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This is the promotional flyer for the Periclean-in-Residence Panel
The class schedule surrounded three main points of focus: Logistics, Goals and Additional ideas. Primarily, we tackled ironing out specific details regarding the itinerary for our guests and their accommodations, such as the classes they would address, who they would be meeting with and the content of their discussions and presentations. After deciding on UNG Center for New North Carolinians, who focus on the post-immigration and assimilation process into resident life in North Carolina, as our final panel speaker we decided on a theme for the panel: Poverty, Injustice and Immigration in Central America. The more broad and encompassing title we felt enabled a larger picture for the discussion and would enable all expertise of each guest to be well represented.

We will continue more extensive planning with detail to come!!! And will continue next week with decisions about the roles of committees this semester and future events!
And just one more photo of our successful small group efforts hard at work! Great job guys

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Class of 2016 Profit Share

By agherlone | Published May 27, 2014

On Saturday, May 17th from 11 a.m.- 10 p.m. our class hosted a profit share at West End Terrace. For each person who came in for the profit share, 15% of their bill was donated to our class project in Honduras. Since I work at West End, I was able to easily set up and advertise for the profit share. We put a chalk board outside on the side walk which said “Periclean profit share: tell your server Periclean to donate 15% of your bill.” Isabel and I also created a Facebook event and our class invited over 1,000 students. April also helped out in inviting her friends and attending the profit share with her husband. Since I was working that day, I was able to explain to many people what Periclean is and, more specifically, what our project in Honduras entails. I was glad to have the opportunity to explain exactly what people were donating to and to also advertise our class and our focus. We made $240 from the profit share which was very successful and I think, ultimately, advertised us a lot. My boss was also very pleased with the turnout and I am sure there is the possibility of conducting another profit share with him in the future. Ultimately, I think it was good to collaborate with a local business owner and get the word out about Periclean and our project. It was also a good end to our semester as a class and for the fundraising committee.

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Throwback Thursday: What were the 2016’s up to on 4/15/2014?

By adedufour | Published May 16, 2014

4/15/14: Week 10

In our final class before Easter Break, our class engaged in reflection, knowledge-building, and plans for the future.  We started off our discussion with the final two KGB presentations, delivered by the groups who watched Reportero and Aqui y Alla.  Reportero, a documentary set in Baja California, Mexico delved into systemic issues in Latin America such as drug trafficking, organized crime, and political corruption.  This documentary provides a critical viewpoint towards the increasing threat that censorship places on journalists in the region.  In fact, according to the film, 76 Mexican reporters have died in the last 11 years.  In an act of positive bilateral cooperation, the US printing companies have vowed to ensure freedom of expression in Mexico by printing articles written in Mexico and sending them back over the border for distribution. This newspaper has become a national phenomenon that proves that nations are capable of transcending political corruption.  Our presenters recommended this movie to the rest of the class, saying it provided in-depth, honest, gritty information.

The other KGB presentation focused on Aqui y Alla, which centers on the life of Pedro and his family living in Mexico. Pedro has just returned from the United States, where he works in order to earn extra money to sustain his family. In Mexico, he picks us where he left off, working odd-jobs and being a caring father to his two young daughters.  In light of his wife’s pregnancy, there is the looming possibility that Pedro will have to go back to the US to acquire the financial capacity to support the growing needs of his family in a system that has deprived him of many basic needs/rights.  The main idea of the movie is to show how immigrants who come to the US from Central America do not necessarily want to leave their communities, their “gente de verdad”.  It shows how our role as Pericleans is to respect the cultural values of communities that we serve and understand their situation from their perspective.

This week was very exciting, as it was our FIRST Cookies to Go-Go of the semester.  We spent some of our discussion reviewing logistics and making sure people understood their responsibilities to like the event on Facebook, spread the word of the event, and show up to their shift on time with cookie dough.

 

Here are the announcements from committees from that day:

Hope for Honduran Children–Working on Sundance Film rough draft, seeing

someone about producing the film

Technology–We have footage from the induction ceremony that will be

edited, organized, and posted. Thanks Lauryl!

Historians–Put your pictures up!

Hogares Sanos–Introductory meeting/dinner with Suyapa with the women

NEXT week to discuss plans for the rest of the semester/next semester;

Working with Lasso, etc. for transition of new volunteers and leadership

Prom Com–Drew knows a “sticker guy”

Other announcements: Friday–Aware Fair, BE THERE! With your shirt on, preferably! Periclean will be represented, so it is important that you try to make it! Happy Easter break!

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May 6, 2014: 2-year Plan

By Jenna Mason | Published May 13, 2014

As the semester comes to a close, the Periclean Scholars Class of 2016 is proud of its accomplishments over the past year. We have formed a partnership with Hope for Honduran Children, and are seriously considering another partnership that may work well with our existing partnerships. We anxiously await the chance to bring these two partners to Elon next fall as Pericleans in Residence with the hopes of determining how our class can be most effective in Honduras.

This past week, we worked together on our two-year-plan. It was exciting to see how far the class has come, as we attempted this overwhelming task in an effective, patient way. Everyone listened to one another and worked off each other’s ideas to come up with the most efficient, and feasible, 2-year plan. To tackle this difficult task, we made a chart including a space for each semester starting with the Fall of 2014 and ending with the Spring of 2016. A few major topics that we included in each semester were: fundraising efforts, grant writing and letter writing campaigns, local outreach, and building our partnerships Honduras. We have found that setting specific fundraising goals per-semester is difficult, because we have not committed to a specific project or focus as of now. Instead we decided to set goals of the number of fundraising events we will hold each semester. Looking at the Fall of 2014, the class struggled to determine the best way to keep the Pericleans abroad in contact, and to determine a feasible plan for the fall when the majority of our cohort is studying abroad. We have decided to send one e-mail a week to the students who are abroad, which will include anything we have discussed, and will provide them with the chances to vote when necessary. It was encouraging to see that most of the members who plan to study abroad trust the class to make decisions that will be great for the whole class, and for our partners. Overall we had a very successful discussion as we planned out the rest of our time together, including what we can do Pan-Periclean.

At the end of class, we broke into our committees to give some final updates. We are excited to announce that we have established a pen-pal system with boys living in two different communities in Honduras: the Flor Azul Boys Community and the Transition Home. We have connected with these communities through our partner, Hope for Honduran Children, and are excited to get to know the boys on a more personal level, so that we can really learn from them. Our final group meeting will be this Tuesday, May 13, as we say goodbye to our Pericleans studying abroad, and look forward to the exciting progress we can make next year.

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Special Post- A Visit From Sarah Woodard

By agoldberg3 | Published May 5, 2014

On April 24, the Periclean program was fortunate to hear Sarah Junkin Woodard speak about her work in Nicaragua. The organization she works though is the Center for Development in Central America (CDCA), which has been present in Nicaragua for the past two decades. Mrs. Woodard’s life of service began in North Carolina when she opened up some of the first homeless and battered women shelters in the Statesville area. Her passion for helping the people of Nicaragua was realized when she and her friends discovered they could get a lot more accomplished by pooling their time and money instead of taking individual paths. This led them to drive to Nicaragua with everything they own to continue opening shelters, and through this volunteering their love for the country was ignited. The motivation and slogan behind all of the work Mrs. Woodard does is “another world is possible”. She repeatedly emphasized the poor conditions people are forced to live in and how, with work, another world for these individuals is possible. Some of her efforts to make this possibility a reality include helping small farmers make more profit off of their crops through helping them gain an organic grower license, issue small loans with a small interest rate to local farmers, opening a clinic with many invaluable medical supplies to treat the community, and support local artists by paying them upfront then selling their merchandise in the US.
This presentation applies to the work the Periclean class of 2016 will be doing in Honduras because many of the issues in Nicaragua are also present in Honduras. Poverty and deforestation are just two of the many crippling problems these two countries have in common. Mrs. Woodard also has experience identifying and responding to the needs of the people she comes in contact with. We as Pericleans hope to install a project that positively impacts as many people as possible while also meeting some sort of need in the community. Thus, her tactics and stories act as a source of advice and motivation for the work we will be doing in Honduras. Finally, Mrs. Woodard also aims to make her projects sustainable and the communities she works with self-sufficient. These goals align perfectly with those of the Periclean program and hopefully we are as successful as she has been in meeting them.

By: Annie Goldberg

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Week 3: 18 February 2014 Classnotes

By Arianna Brown | Published April 24, 2014

By: Arianna Brown
This week we worked on focusing potential partnership projects and specific committee goals. As a class we worked, outside of class on community outreach and growing notoriety of Periclean on campus and methods for doing so (ie. a table at College Coffee to gauge interest and answer questions as well as reaching out to Global and Elon 101 classes for a presentation). Our committees set SMART goals (specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, timely). Specifically for committees, such as Fundraising and Cookies-to-Go-Go, we discussed how our past trials have gone and what we need to change for future events and how things should be run. Similarly to that planning, the Hogares Sanos committee discussed plans for possible turnover of the program for post-graduation of our class to enable a sustainable continuation and transition of program direction, perhaps takeover by El Centro. The other committees, Librarian/Technology, Special Events, and Hope for Honduran Children are mainly focused on future plans and beginning our first, initial events which should be exciting to see unfold throughout the semester and over the next few years of our project and partner development. Hopefully, we will be able to evaluate the successes and shortcoming of our SMART goals and go back to problem solve for future events and planning.

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Class Updates Week of 3/4/14

By Libby Bacher | Published April 17, 2014

Important Announcements:

  •  Anna Silvia: Elon student, from Honduras
  • Plans to establish subcommittees of special events committee to organize a Periclean in-residence.

Partners/programs to keep in our back pocket for future projects:

  • Cargill (potential to return?)
  • Vos que haras por Honduras: future sponsor for a project we choose
  • Pen Pals in Honduras (focus on keeping contact with boys in H4HC this semester)
  • Sky lanterns (fall fundraiser?)
  • Morgan’s contacts (future partner potentials)
  • Water access
  • Youth development programs
  • Tegu (consider for summit)
  • Microfinance and Kiva: lending $100 from job expo to Kiva initiatives
  • Students Helping Honduras: organization on campus to promote sustainability of our project.

Focus Decision

  • Community development with H4HC? Sustainable and feasible to travel there for our project
  • Raise $1300 for English classes for boys in transition home.
  • Focus established as YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
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April 8th

By ddimos | Published April 15, 2014

Submitted by: Renna Durham and Drew Dimos

Absent: Meredith Berk, Isabel Sackner-Bernstein, Dawson Nicholson, Lauryl Fischer

(Kerianne Durkin will be 10 minutes late due to a meeting. Lauryl Fischer, Dawson Nicholson and Isabel Sackner-Bernstein will miss most, if not all, of class due to a mandatory study abroad meeting. Jenna Mason may be absent due to a family emergency)

 

1. Last Minute Planning for Induction Ceremony: 20 Min

Jenna Mason, Lexie Melanson, Anna deDufour

**Jenna Mason needs help/a replacement to help set up on Thursday because she has to go get x-rays for her chest post pneumonia

 

Induction Ceremony

Location Oaks 212

Time: 5-7

 

Program

Introduction and Main Program

  • Steve Braye- introduction speech and quick overview of the ceremony

  • Class speakers: 2016 (Arianna and Caley), 2015 (Bud Warner needs to announce them/get back to me), 2014 (Ethan Smith)

  • Tom Arcaro: Skype speech from Costa Rica

  • Carol Smith speech (new advisor)

Dinner

  • Everyone will have a seat at a table, dinner is buffet style, called to eat by table

  • Multimedia videos and such will be playing in background with Namibian music

  • Games will be placed on the tables as an ice breaker

Closing

  • Official thanks to everyone who helped out

  • Presentation of the Periclean Award of the Year (Ross Mcfarland will present it)

  • Mentor Mentee reveal! (Puzzle Pieces)

Completed Tasks

  • Event set up sheet already filled out we have 2 trashcans, 8 round tables (8 chairs each) 4 large tables, 90 lecture chairs, 1 podium, 2 table cloths, 8 round table cloths as well as flowers (table decorations)

  • Email invitations sent out to all classes including inductees

  • Catherine Parsons contacted and will be in charge of formatting and printing the program

    • She will print out 17 card stock Periclean emblems for mentor mentee puzzles

    • She will send out the names of all of the people who have RSVPed

  • Budget has been found we have $300-500 for food etc

  • An inventory of Periclean room 209 has been taken

    • Two packs of 2000 pens

    • Three boxes of mugs (36 per box)

    • 6 table cloths

    • 40+ namibian Cds

    • 40+ Periclean Pins

  • All guest speakers have been contacted and they have emailed back a outline of their speech

  • Planed out where to order/ get food: Food will come from Sal’s this is the breakdown of the cost:

    • 4 trays of pasta x $50 (serving size 24 per tray)= $200

    • 4 trays of salad x$30 = $120

    • 16 dozen bread sticks x $3.50= $56

    • Total= $376

  • New class books have been ordered and will be given as gifts “Soul of a Citizen: Living with conviction in challenging times” By P.R Lobe

  • Mentor Mentee ceremony has been planned and outlined

 

Tasks needing to be Completed

  • Prepare/ plan seating arrangements

  • Print out programs, nametags, and table numbers

  • Purchase utensils (the plastic utensils that look metallic)

  • Compile RSVP list

  • Compose multimedia presentation and Namibian music and inductee biographies

  • Find a  Periclean to record event

  • Set up on April 12th

  • Mentor Mentee big reveal puzzles + Gifts

 

People who can’t come to the induction:

  • Other people act as a temporary mentor for mentees (for puzzle activity)

 

2. Skype with Morgan’s contact, Maggie Ducayet: 30 min

  • Earned a 25,000 grant to do outreach in a third world country–they chose Honduras

    • 50 People went down to a small town near the border of Guatemala (9 years ago)

    • Worked with dentists and doctors

    • Brought clothing and food, Maggie noticed that this wasn’t the best way to create sustainability. She noticed that the town was dependent on these mission trips.

  • After her first trip, she went back numerous times taking a different approach to helping

    • Mission to make a difference

    • Worked in the central town of Sula, then moved to a more isolated villages

    • Now there is a clinic that they work out of with the goal of working on/ teaching about education and health

    • Trained interested villagers to become “first responders” for health issues that rise in individuals in the villages.

      • Taught BP, Heart Rate, given all the supplies to complete their tasks, unpaid

    • Goal to have people in the villages take responsibility for themselves/ their health

    • Had many projects focused on things including getting school supplies for schools/teachers, building a school, and a water project–all focused on self-sustainability.

  • Are her mission trips religious?

    • Wants to be the hands and feet of God, but to not make it obvious

  • Her most successful strategies to fundraising

    • Cowboy Ball– band, auctions, etc. [realized it was hard to people to volunteer to help run the ball/ it was a lot of work]

    • Capital Campaign– writing fundraising letter/newsletter letters with personal notes [have raised 2x as much money]

    • Bake sale and Jewelry sale for summer vacationers

  • Working on a grant proposal for Scholarships

  • Most people going on these trips will help build

    • No need to know spanish

    • One week

  • Coffee crisis

    • fungus that has ruined most crops

  • Large groups overwhelm villagers

  • Never promise anything that you know you can’t fulfill

  • summitinhonduras.org

 

3. Finish up Cards and Cut outs for Induction

 

5. Announcements and discussion: 5 min. (Moved to the end to give different people a chance to be involved at different levels during the class since there are some who have to come or go early. If we don’t get to the discussions, we can do them on Moodle.)

  1. Charlotte Best has decided to drop the class and the program due to too many other obligations. (April)

  2. A $1200 Fund for Excellence Grant was submitted by Christine Harris and Erin Lanzotti to pay for the English classes for the transition home boys last Friday. (April)

  3. Hogares Sanos plans (Casey).

  4. Class retreat is ________________________________. (Libby/Christine)

  5. C2GG campaign is _____________________________. (Erin Lanzotti)

 

6. Announcements and discussion: 5 min. (Moved to the end to give different people a chance to be involved at different levels during the class since there are some who have to come or go early. If we don’t get to the discussions, we can do them on Moodle.)

  1. Charlotte Best has decided to drop the class and the program due to too many other obligations. (April)

  2. A $1200 Fund for Excellence Grant was submitted by Christine Harris and Erin Lanzotti to pay for the English classes for the transition home boys last Friday. (April)

  3. Hogares Sanos plans (Casey).

  4. Class retreat is ________________________________. (Libby/Christine)

  5. C2GG campaign is _____________________________. (Erin Lanzotti)

7.Next Class

    2 KGB’s that are left- 30mins

    Committees- 40 mins

    Periclean-in-Residence- 15-20mins

    Announcements- 10-15mins

Announcements

    Cookies to go go is happening next Wednesday 16th

    Everyone sign up for a 2hr shift

    If you can’t attend please provide reason

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Induction Ceremony

By adyer5 | Published April 12, 2014

On April 10th, 2014 the Namibia class of 2017  was warmly welcomed into the Periclean Scholars. Organized by the Honduras class of 2016, representatives from 2014, and 2015, as well as advisers, and several guests  attended to show their support for the fledgling scholars.DSC_0162

The ceremony was held in Oaks 212 and energy was high as the audience anticipated the induction of the new class. The evening began with an introduction by Steve Braye and Aidan Dyer and then was followed by speakers Arianna Brown and Caley Mikesell. Arianna and Caley emphasized accountability, patience, and teamwork, while foraging lifelong connections while honing their interpersonal, technical, and professional skills.

Class of 2015 speakers Elania Vermeulen and Cat Palmer were next to praise the new class. They had the audience breaking out laughing with the their stories from the past year, all centered around the idea that failure will be expected but perseverance will produce the best results.

Ethan Smith from the class of 2014 was the last of the student speakers for the evening. The Periclean scholars, Ethan said, acted as a family to him, and helped him through the roughest times in his life. Smith stressed that the Periclean organization will be more then a group of academics looking to help others, as they will become  friends, companions, and teachers during the time at Elon and beyond.

While Tom Acaro was next on the programming to speak, due to technology complications he was unable to connect with the ceremony, instead Steve Braye spoke in his place and introduced Dr. Acaro to the new class. Following Braye, the main speaker of the night, the future 2017 adviser, Carol Smith began by welcoming the new class and introducing herself. She then spoke on about the new class, as all of them had been individuals she believed would work well together, and introduced ones she knew personally. She then challenged the room with  a mind exercise, requesting that the audience compete a series of mental calculations, then converted into the alphabet, colors, and finally animals, until almost everyone in the room imagined a orange kangaroo from Denmark, which was met with amusement and curiosity. Dr. Smith expressed her excitement and anticipation for getting to know each new member and for sharing future experiences. The class of 2017, according to Carol, would be challenged more then they ever had, but with dedication and tenacity, would reap rewards and lessons that would be valuable for the rest of their lives.

Newly Inducted Namibia Class of 2017

Newly Inducted Namibia Class of 2017

The inductees were then individually introduced and received a Periclean pin. Once the pinning ceremony was compete, a delicious buffet style dinner of pasta, salad and garlic bread was provided, complete with games and Periclean facts. The night was concluded by a speech on Periclean’s roots and heritage and a presentation of the Periclean of the Year award by Bud Warner. Finally the new students of 2017 were paired with mentors from the class of 2016 by matching puzzle pieces.

The newly inducted class of 2017 left with smiles on their faces as they looked forward to the challenging but bright path before them.

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Students from the Class of 2017 pose before dinner

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Aidan Dyer Commences the Induction Ceremony

 

 

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Update from the Class of 2016

By Kerianne Durkin | Published February 27, 2014

The Class of 2016 spent a small portion of class going over housekeeping issues. Fall scheduling, Relay for Life, Periclean Ambassadors to Global and Elon 101 classes, and the class structure were all discussed.

Casey Morrison worked with our mentor, April Post, on creating a goals committee that would ensure class goals are accounted for by committees. The class plans on expanding this idea to create committees to maintain relationships with our current partner and possible future partners or committees that act as liaisons between specific partners and the class.

Ashley Gherlone shared a presentation “Biodigesters for Honduras”. She originally learned about Biodigesters in her recent experience abroad last semester, and researched the implications of the concept in Honduras. Afterwards, the class spent time considering the logistics of biodigesters for our partners, Hope for Honduran Children.

Morgan Abate explained to the class about contacts she made in Honduras and promised to follow up the discussion with more information on those contacts. Class ended after small group discussion about our Periclean contracts.

Upcoming events: Steve Mencarini, Director of the Center for Leadership at Elon, is coming in to class in two weeks to run a seminar on how to be a high functioning team. The class looks forward to learning from him in hopes of becoming a more focused and productive group!

-Caley and Kerianne

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