General Body Meeting February 3

New Approach this Semester

• Focus more on advocacy and education
• Incorporating presentations of situations
• Figure out how we can help the situation
  Today we are focusing on the Gaza strip
  Giving a non-partisan overview of the situation and the plain facts
• We’ll have a letter writing campaign
  Send to representatives, asking them to open humanitarian aid to Gaza
  That’s our “partisanship”
  All is in accord with UNICEF’s official stand (2 UNICEF hospitals and schools bombed)

Events this Semester

• Water Tap Project
  March 22 – 28 (World Water Week)
  Need help tabling
  Overview: paper water droplets sold at Newcomb or on the Lawn for 6 cents, drops will be displayed in Newcomb display case
  All the money goes to UNICEF Tap Project
• Joshua Tetrick
  Speaker on Global Challenges and Careers
  From Generation We: worked with UNICEF Commission in Nairobi
  How to take passion for humanitarian crisis into a career
  March 18 (don’t have a location yet)
• Community Service Project
  Exact time and project will be determined by next week
  One weekend of going out and helping
  Sometime in February hopefully
• Video Series
  Short film festival (3 or 4 movies)
  Each movie under 25 minutes
  Films will revolve around humanitarian crises
  Uganda, West Bank, and others
  $3 each
  Half of the money goes to UNICEF, half goes to Initiative Recover (Prof Canfora)
  Goes to building a school in Guida, Uganda
  http://www.studiorecover.virginia.edu/recover.html
• STAND Race for Darfur 5k
  Run the 5k as a group
  $10 per person if you sign up in a group
  Saturday February 21
  E-mail if you’re interested
  https://eventcal.itc.virginia.edu/eventcal/event/display?event_id=1232861890001
  http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=61035801584

Arab-Israeli Conflict

• Website for history: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/middle_east/03/v3_israel_palestinians/maps/html/default.stm
• UNICEF calls for humanitarian space in Gaza
  UNICEF schools and hospitals serving as shelters were bombed
  8 aid workers have been killed
  Providing school and aid kits, as well as water

Letter-Writing Campaign

• Writing letters to US Representatives
  Asking US to use influence with Israel to ask for movement of humanitarian trucks into Gaza strip
  Ashi has a template, but you can write your own as well
  UNICEF can mail the letters, but please donate money for stamps!
• You can drop off your letter in the SAC Mailbox 484

Compassion Meal

• Saturday February 7
• Lunch of rice and beans
• Enjoy a tasty, cheap lunch!
• http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=51823357446&ref=mf

Officer Meeting January 27

Events for This Semester

• Water Tap Project: collaboration with Circle K International
• Joshua Tetrick speaker: Global Challenges and Careers
• Community Service Project
• Forum: talk to various professors about speaking
• Video Series
• Professors as Speakers

Water Tap Project

• Collaboration with Circle K International
• Rescheduled for March 22 – 28 (World Water Week)
• We already have all the materials and an advertising campaign
• All we need to do is book a Newcomb table and the display board
  Table in Newcomb 22 – 28 (11 am – 2 pm)
  Display board in Newcomb 22 – 28
• Event: selling water droplets for 6 cents (or more)
  6 Cents Initiative: 6 cents buys drinking water for one person for one dayWater droplet has person’s name, put water droplet on the board
• Advertising
  Need to think about it
  Table tents, flyers, chalking?
  Listservs
• Money goes to UNICEF’s Tap Project

Global Challenges and Careers

• Joshua Tetrick
• Wednesday, March 18
• Member of Generation We
  Speaks about how “big needs – climate change, clean-energy, global poverty – connect with incredible careers…”
• Co-sponsorships
  GDO (Global Development Organization) - Ashi
  UCS (University Career Services) - Rashmita
  UPC (University Programs Council) - Sanaa
  Building Tomorrow - Sanaa
• Need to book a room
• Need to get him a gift
  Jefferson Cup
  Take him out to dinner

Service Project Updates

• Project will be some weekend in February
• Updates by General Body meeting
• Ashi will send out the power point with everyone’s assignments

Forum

• UNICEF Panel Discussion
• Topic: the role of the state versus international organizations in sustainable development
• Speakers
  Holcomb
  Githinji
  Canfora
  Ms. Biel from Johnson Elementary
• May need to reword the topic so that it’s more attractive
  Government and NGO Dynamics in Sustainable DevelopmentDynamics of Government and NGOs in Sustainable Development
• Need a room and a date
• Alternative: Initiative Recover
  Canfora’s project
  Fundraising for the initiative

Film Screening

• Foreign films
• Example: West Bank Story
  Story of Gaza strip
  Highlights conflict between Israel and Palestine
  Very applicable right now
• Quandt could talk – keynote speech
• Charge $3 per movie
• Partner up with Off Screen?
• Need to come up with a list of short films
  Can be from different regions
  3 or 4 movies about 20 minutes longBinding concept would be that UNICEF works in these regions
• Sometime in April

Consensus

• We’ll do the film screening
• Money
  Half goes to UNICEF
  Half goes Initiative Recover (http://www.studiorecover.virginia.edu/recover.html)
• Homework
  Come up with 2 short movies we could display by next officers meeting
  See how much it costs to buy or if it’s available at ClemonsAny humanitarian crisis in the world

General Body Meeting

• First 15 minutes highlighting an international issue
• 8 pm on Tuesday February 3 in Minor 130?
• Updates for service projects
• Two short movies each (by Officer’s Meeting at the latest)
• Talk about Palestine/Israel conflict
  Letter writing campaign
  Letters to Congress urging them to open funding to Gaza
  Templates for letters, addresses of representatives