Bulletin 3 / 2004
March

- We established a partnership with United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization – UNESCO, in which they will provide us technical knowledge and we will allocate international volunteers within the development projects supported by the organization in Brazil.

- Selected by the Inter-American Development Bank – IDB, to make a speech in the international seminar “Latin American and Caribbean Social Capital in Action: Young Entrepreneurs and Volunteerism”, within the IDB's Annual Meeting of the Boards of Governors, which took place in Lima, Peru, we have received the support and would like to thank very much the Brazilian Ministry of Culture that sponsored our airfare and made possible our participation.

The event was extremely productive and brought together public and private officials, politicians, experts, and youth leaders from the Latin America and Caribbean to discuss ways to promote entrepreneurship and volunteerism, described as vital for the development of the whole region

Among the 82 scheduled speakers were the president of IDB, Enrique Iglesias; first lady of Peru, Eliane Karp de Toledo; Argentine Education Minister Daniel Filmus; the advisor to the president of Brazil and co-founder of Brazil's Zero Hunger program, Frei Betto; Bernardo Kliksberg, general coordinator of the IDB Ethics Initiative; director of the Center for Civil Society Studies at Johns Hopkins University, Lester Salamon; manager of IDB Multilateral Investment Fund, Donald Terry; director of the Center for Social Development of the University of Washington, Michael Sherraden; president of Faça Parte, Brazilian Volunteer Institute, Milu Villela; Ad de Raad, director of United Nations Volunteers; Andrés Thompson of the Kellogg Foundation; Roy Thomasson of the Organization of American States; Iko Poran General Coordinator Luis Felipe Murray; and others.

View some presentations and press releases at: 

http://www.iadb.org/etica/ingles/index-i.cfm


- We have received the institutional support of RIOTUR – City of Rio de Janeiro Tourism Authority, to implement the “Community Tour”. We will be listed with emphasis in the next tourist guide of the city that will come out in May of 2004.

- The number of page views in our website keep growing; from 57.559 in August of 2003 to 163.568 in March of 2004 – an increase of 284%;

- We have received the support in our communication and would like to thank very much the following organizations:

Smith College; North West Student and Graduate Online; Iowa State University - Peace Corps; Go Global! The International Careers Website; University of South Carolina - College of Social Work; American Society; CONTI-PRESS, Switzerland - Top Jobs; Freechild Project; International Association of Volunteer Efforts Taiwan. 


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