Archive for June, 2009

Hi everyone! We also want to remind you of our Facebook Causes page, please check it out and join when you get a chance – http://apps.facebook.com/causes/85337?m=3124eff7 We use both our Fan Page and Causes page because of the great, but different, tools they both have. Thanks! Scott Friends & RPCVs of Guyana

More older Americans are taking the plunge…to volunteer abroad! CNN recently posted an article that details the rising popularity of people over 50 participating in long and short term volunteer opportunities all over the world. Since 2007 applications for the Peace Corps from adults over 50 has increased by 44 percent and those numbers continue [...]

(via peacecorpsconnect.org) For past two years I’ve been a board member of the RPCV group Friends & RPCVs of Guyana (FROG) and as nonprofits go, it takes time to build up membership, fund raise, continue outreach and develop our programs but I’m confident that we’re progressing at a solid pace. There’s plenty of room for [...]

Friends & RPCVs of Guyana would like to take a moment and thank J. Aramathea, art director of Deitrick & Associates and The HALO Foundation, for the volunteer work she’s done with our organization.  During her hours away from her work and volunteering with The HALO Foundation, J. Aramathea has been working on updating the FROG logo so [...]

(via NPCA email) Despite limited funds to work with, the House Appropriations Subcommittee for State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs today took a major step forward to provide the resources for a bigger, better and bolder Peace Corps.  In its “mark up” of programs within the International Affairs budget for Fiscal Year 2010, the subcommittee [...]

(via contractoruk.com) The father of a British IT consultant who was kidnapped in Baghdad two years ago has learnt his son may be freed within the next 48 hours. Graeme Moore shared his news after a senior member of the Shia militia group that seized his son, Peter, with his four bodyguards in 2007 was [...]