The Road to Activism: Mexico - A Partnership with Traveling Mercies
Target Audience: College and University Students, Students in Grades 9-12
Cost: FREE
Date: April 15, 2010
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT
Requirements for Participation: There are 10 spaces available for MAGPI Members and 5 spaces for Non-MAGPI Members. Non-Members must be connected to their state/national research and education network. All must have H.323 videoconferencing capabilities.
Program Description:
Over the past seven years, the road to activism in Mexico offered opportunities for Aldo Magazzeni to create relationships with the community at the Tashirat Orphanage and Ixaya School in Tepoztlan, Morelos, Mexico. The road to Tashirat was guided by his friend, Esther Bissinger, who has been there for almost ten years. Aldo knew her as a child and now, at the age of 30, she is the principal of the school, house mother to four Mexican orphans, and a leader of new programs to help the special needs children. Aldo's work has included helping the school lunch program as well as designing and planning a water catchments system and showers for the school students. Along the road, the need to help the most vulnerable children - - those with special needs - -became a priority. Today, Traveling Mercies has coordinated a relationship with special education professionals in New Jersey to assist the school to develop a Special Education Program and curriculum. The Mexican populations in this country are displaced, unable to travel back home and offer help. So Traveling Mercies has tried to honor this need.
Travel this road with Aldo into Morelos, Mexico through the images, stories and video he has captured. See how you can discover your intentions and apply them somewhere in life to help others. Everyone has the ability to travel the road to activism and make this world a better, more equal human experience.
MORE INFORMATION/REGISTRATION:http://www.magpi.net/Community/Programs/Road-Activism-Mexico
The Road to Activism: Afghanistan - A Partnership with Traveling Mercies
Target Audience: College and University Students, Students in Grades 9-12
Cost: FREE
Date: May 6, 2010
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT
Requirements for Participation: There are 10 spaces available for MAGPI Members and 5 spaces for Non-MAGPI Members. Non-Members must be connected to their state/national research and education network. All must have H.323 videoconferencing capabilities.
Program Description:
A country devastated by war for the last 40 years had been left behind by the internationals, and Aldo Magazzeni's effort to make a difference for world peace led him on the road to activism in Afghanistan. Over the past six years, Aldo's engagement in Afghanistan has provided him with opportunities to create relationships with communities in an Islamic country, bringing down cultural and political barriers in an effort to help those in need.
Alone in 2004, Aldo began to create relationships with the Afghan communities, elders, and leaders. His experiences in the rural villages of the Panjsher Valley and Hindu Kush Mountain begin with climbing Mir Samir Mountain and over the years have led him to build five water systems with villages. The road to Nairobi led him to work with women in schools and develop programs in the women’s prison, and to work with the Maraston Orphanage. His journey into Kabul led him to meet Suraya Pakzad, Director of Voice of Women, and an activist for women’s rights. Together in the last six years, they have built women’s shelters and started vocational and education programs in Herat City. Aldo has worked to install seven more water systems in Afghanistan - - delivering clean water to more than 15,000 families, or more than 75,000 people. The poorest communities, the women and men jails, high schools and government buildings have benefited.
Travel this road with Aldo into Afghanistan through the images, stories and video he has captured. See how you can discover your intentions and apply them somewhere in life to help others. Everyone has the ability to travel the road to activism and make this world a better, more equal human experience.
MORE INFORMATION/REGISTRATION: http://www.magpi.net/Community/Programs/Road-Activism-Afghanistan
About Traveling Mercies: Traveling Mercies, a 501(c)3 organization, works to remove barriers between cultures so that individuals can share their strengths, assets and blessings with each other.
