I am volunteering in Thailand. Which project should I pick? and why?
ANDY777 asked:
option 1. Preserving the culture of the hill tribes (The Akhas) in Northern Thailand (Chieng Rai region )
The main objective of the project is cultural exchange between the volunteers and the local villagers but the participants of the project will also practically work in the communities doing several kinds of support and development works, like renovation of some community spaces or field works and farming with the villagers.
option 2. English teaching program at the Royal Thai Air Force
Volunteers will be teaching English inside the Air Force base, about 5 kilometres from Khlong Hoi Khong. The students will be mainly soldiers and officers working inside the base.
Study theme: The volunteers will be introduced to the non-formal education techniques. The city of Hat Yai can be reached by public transport in about half an hour and the coastal Songkla city and its Samila beach can be reached in about an hour and a half.
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someone please help me with my astronomy project?! please?
i love wdv!!!! <3 asked:
I need help with my astronomy project. i have to write a paper about why the universe changes so much? what we mean by violent and catastrophic events, we have to explain how sicentists gather data and information about these events and objects. we have to choose one of the objects or events and we have to explain what scientists are learning as they gather the data and info from available technology. and we have to explain the impact and the importance of these scientific and technological developments to both the general publicand the scientific community. any and all of your help is going to be greatly appreciated.
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how to start an organization for community service?
prince47 asked:
i want to start an organisation named as “Care For Concerns” to the needy and the wide concerns of humanity. it is linked to ecology, education, social health and rural development. i believe in the proper utilisation of resoucres in rural ares on par with urban will eradicate the evils of the natural world.. so please suggest the means and ways to do this project.
tell me your opinions, please help me to post question in right place to get more answers.
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How to start an open source software project?
ggs asked:
I have a software idea. In talking with some people, I feel that there will be a lot of interest in this software. I want to use the open source community to create this software. I know that I can host the project on www.sourceforge.net, but how do I get developers to work on it? How do I manage the process, releases, QA etc? I only have an idea and no hands on software development experience. How will this process work? If you can share your experience, it will be great.
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How can we build an inclusive Sudanese society now that we have achieved peace after 21 years of fighting?
hmc55 asked:
Human Moral Care (HMC) is a Community Based Org. interested in initiating an educational and training project that could be replicated in Sudan to help build a harmonious relationships between African and Aarab tribes and achieve a non-racial or a non-tribal society in Sudan.
HMC plans to work in three areas:
1)Education and development seminar to liberate our people from from all those things which prevented us from making progress
2) participate with communities to organize agricultural peojects to liberate ourselves from hunger
3) participate with communities to establish clinics or dispensaries to help liberate ourselves from disease, sickness and pain. Help the communities to organize medical projects like hospitals and clinics which provide curative medical services for the sick. Help also instruct the people in ways of preventing sickness. organize courses in health education, nutrition, child care and hygiene.
Organize competition projects in the 10 southern states, etc.
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science project?
janesmine_12 asked:
in the theme…
“Focus on food security and ecological preservation for community development”
can you explain what it is??????
i have to picture things about this theme,,,,it’s my project and i don’t know what to picture,,,, please help me…..
please help me,,,, explain me this………
thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!
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Did you know that McCain’s new ad tells another lie?
Logic Lost And Found asked:
STRAIGHT FROM www.factcheck.org
McCain’s ad opens by turning Obama’s housing problem attack back on Obama. The narrator says Chicago real estate developer Tony Rezko, one of Obama’s “biggest fundraisers” helped Obama buy his “million-dollar mansion” by purchasing property that Obama couldn’t afford. The ad goes on to charge that Obama helped Rezko receive “political favors” including “$14 million from taxpayers,” and it points out that Rezko is now a convicted felon.
It’s untrue that Rezko got “$14 million from taxpayers” for himself, as the ad seems to be saying. The “help” to which it refers is a one-page letter Obama signed in October 1998 urging the city housing commissioner to support an apartment project for low-income senior citizens. A copy went to the state housing development authority. The 97-unit Cottage View Terrace, which opened in 2002, was funded with taxpayer money, and Tony Rezko was involved in developing the project.
But the deal did not put $14 million into Rezko’s pocket. That figure represents the total development cost for the project. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Rezko and his partner, Allison Davis, netted about $855,000. That’s not pocket change, but it’s a far cry from $14 million. And the tenants of the building benefited too.
Moreover, the ad’s claim that Obama wrote the letter as a favor to Rezko is without factual support. Both men deny that Rezko asked Obama to write them, and Obama says his district office frequently sent letters supporting “worthy” community projects, so routinely that “I wasn’t even aware that we wrote the letter.” Rezko’s attorney, Joseph Duffy, told the Sun-Times in 2007 that “Mr. Rezko never spoke with, nor sought a letter from, Senator Obama in connection with that project.” And Obama told Sun-Times reporters in a March 2008 interview:
Obama (March 15, 2008): [He] did not solicit that from me. … This was a project that was well-regarded in the community, has done well, and was supported on its own merits, and it was essentially a form letter of the sort that I did all [the] time.
Can support for a low-income housing project be a “favor” to the developer if the developer didn’t ask for it? You decide.
Million-Dollar Mansion
As for that claim about Rezko helping Obama buy his house, well, we’ve dealt with that one before. The gist of the story: In 2005, Barack and Michelle Obama found a house that they wanted to purchase. The property had been divided into two parcels, one containing a house and the other undeveloped land. The owner had listed the properties separately. After considerable haggling, the seller accepted the Obamas’ third bid of $1.65 million for the parcel containing the house. Tony Rezko’s wife, Rita, purchased the adjoining lot for $625,000.
When the Obamas wanted to increase the size of their yard, they approached the Rezkos about purchasing a strip of the adjacent parcel. Obama told the Sun-Times that a 10-foot strip of the 60-foot lot appraised for $40,000. The Obamas nevertheless paid Rita $104,500 (or 1/6 of the total purchase price of her lot) for the strip. In 2007, Rita sold the remaining lot for $575,000 (or roughly a $54,500 profit on the overall property).
McCain’s ad, however, is worded in a way that could leave a false impression. It says Rezko “helped him buy his million-dollar mansion” by “purchasing part of the property he couldn’t afford.” That’s true, but only because the seller wanted to sell the two parcels as a unit and the Obamas couldn’t afford both. Rezko did not make a gift of any property to the Obamas. Furthermore, the fact that his wife sold her lot for more than she paid for it contradicts any suggestion that the Rezkos overpaid for their part of the deal as a way of getting the seller to lower the price to the Obamas for their part.
Convicted Felon
The McCain ad says of Rezko, “Now, he’s a convicted felon.” That’s true; Rezko was indicted in 2006 and convicted of corruption charges on June 4, 2008. But those charges came after the 2005 Obama home purchase and had nothing to do with that or with the $14 million project mentioned in the ad.
Obama has conceded that purchasing the land from Rezko, whom Obama knew to be under investigation at the time, was “boneheaded.” As we reported in December, Obama has donated campaign contributions from Rezko and his associates to charity.
If he lied about that, what else will he lie about? Everyone who tries to beat up Obama with the Rezko theory needs to research the facts themselves before making false assumptions.
Hey Patrick G, CAN YOU READ?
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I am forming a non-profit organization. Where can I find pro-bono or contingency grant writers?
tellray asked:
I have been doing this work for several years. But now I am incorporating because money needs to be raised to fulfill the objectives. Projects include starting a college and vocational institutes, micro-lending and small business lending, and leadership and organizational development. We currently serve communities in the US, Canada, and Brazil. Our focus is First Nation communities whether inurban or reservation (reserve) locations.
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Help with a major project for my 11th grade Travel/Recreation Marketing class?
Shy asked:
I have a project due tomorrow nad i have so many complications with it is there anyone who can help me here is a few lines of the guidelines. This poject has caused me so much trouble and now that I finally got what I need I do not understand:
. Review the meaning of infrastructure, superstructure, cyclical and seasonal nature of tourism, roles of public and private sectors and why people travel.
2. With no more than 3 in a group, develop a 3 mile stretch of oceanfront property that also extends inland 3 miles. Include development that will attract tourists to the area and that will meet their needs while they are visiting, such as:
· Infrastructure
· surface areas
· superstructures
3. Identify and explain the roles of the public and private sectors in the success of your development and include in your typed description of your beach community.
4. Explain the impact you expect the cyclical product life cycle and the seasonal nature to have on the success of your development. For instance, since your development is in the Introduction Stage of the product life cycle, what does that mean you will experience in the early stages of your community? What seasonal impacts will there be?
5. In addition to your typed description, your Beach Community Development will be presented to the class. You may use a PowerPoint, posters, brochures, fact sheets, models and/or even a bulletin board promoting your community as ways to present your project.
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are we in trouble for nonprofit?
niyo asked:
We are a newly incorporated nonprofit and was fortunate enough to work with an organization that willing to be our sponsorship until we get tax exemption. however, we realize within the 2 months of partnership, we feel that we are not satisfied to work and have them as a sponsor/partner so we wrote a formal termination agreement letter telling them we no longer wish to cooperate with them.
It is an oral agreement cooperate with community development projects, and we agreed that once we have tax exemption, we will no longer be with them. Beginning, the work was great but soon after they trying to control us.
They claim that our action can damage their organization by 1. they might lose their 501(3)C status, 2. they might lost their donor and sponsor whom know about the partnership.
can our action jeopardize their organization? can they sue us? what other appropriate steps can we take to end this peacefully?
oh, they willing to negotiate to give us more benefit but we stay firm and don’t want to cooperate with them more.
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