[Hamp-law] Fwd: Global Youth Connect January Delegation to Rwanda

[Flavio Risech]

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Subject: 	Global Youth Connect January Delegation to Rwanda
Date: 	Sun, 19 Oct 2014 13:47:44 -0400
From: 	Mac Hamilton <mackenziejhamilton at gmail.com>
To: 	Flavio Risech-Ozeguera <frisech at hampshire.edu>, Jesse Hawkes 
<jesse at globalyouthconnect.org>



Dear Flavio,

  I wanted to send you the announcement for Global Youth Connect's 
January delegation to Rwanda, which is accepting applications until 
Thursday, October 23. As I think you know, I was a program assistant in 
Rwanda with GYC's human rights program this past summer and currently 
serve on their Board of Directors.

If you could send this announcement out on any Hampshire listservs or 
flag it for students you think would benefit from the program, I would 
so appreciate it!

*GYC's WINTER DELEGATION TO RWANDA:
*
Dates of Delegation: December 28, 2014 – January 12, 2015

Age Range: 18-35 (Student/Professional)

Program tuition: $2,250

Application Deadline: October 23, 2014 at 5pm EST

20 years after the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the country has undergone a 
remarkable transformation. Yet critical human rights questions remain. 
During this GYC delegation, international participants will join with 
young Rwandan human rights activists to learn about human rights 
achievements and challenges in Rwanda, and to take concrete action steps 
together to support current and future efforts for human rights 
protection and promotion, both in Rwanda and abroad.

Through a combination of workshops, site visits, advocacy meetings, and 
volunteer service with grassroots NGOs, we will learn about and act on 
numerous key human rights issues in Rwanda, including (but not limited 
to): gender and human rights, human rights of children, LGBTI 
populations, historically marginalized indigenous groups, refugees, 
domestic workers, poverty reduction, public health, juvenile justice, 
freedom of expression and the arts. In advance of and during the 
delegation, all participants will examine the roots of the 1994 Rwandan 
genocide, and see how its legacy has impacted the country and its 
people, and also how the country is attempting to rebuild today.

More information: http://globalyouthconnect.org 
<http://globalyouthconnect.org/>

To apply: http://globalyouthconnect.org/apply.html

NOTE: Rwanda is Ebola free, and working hard to keep it that way. 
Rwanda's Ministry of Health, led by Dr. Agnes Binagwaho (with whom GYC's 
groups have frequently met at length), is exceedingly well organized and 
working day and night to ensure the country remains Ebola free. GYC's 
Executive Director can personally confirm that people coming into the 
country are being treated as suspect, with no-touch thermometers taking 
temperatures regardless of which country passengers are coming from. 
Passengers must fill-out a questionnaire as well. Several suspected 
cases were reported and pro-actively isolated over the past two months, 
but all proved to be something else (malaria, etc). The last message 
from the US Embassy in Rwanda concerning Ebola is here: 
http://rwanda.usembassy.gov/sm_083114.html . The US Embassy (with which 
GYC registers any and all participants regardless of nationality), 
updates travelers to Rwanda whenever necessary.  Rwanda is over 2500 
miles from the West African countries which have been most heavily 
impacted by Ebola.

Wishing you all the best,
Mac Hamilton

-- 
MacKenzie J. Hamilton

Program Assistant, Rwanda Human Rights Delegation
Global Youth Connect
Smith College, '13
mackenziejhamilton at gmail.com <mailto:mackenziejhamilton at gmail.com>
(774)722-2861

www.globalyouthconnect.org <http://www.globalyouthconnect.org>


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